It's the Climb

31 year old Zach Vawter lost his leg in a motorcycle accident in 2009. So he decided to sign up for a research subject helping to test a prosthetic leg that can be controlled by his thoughts, just like a regular leg would. Zach will put this bionic leg to the test by walking 103 flights of stairs to the top of one of the tallest skyscrapers in the world, Chicago's Willis Tower. His leg should function with the mere thought of "climb stairs." Researchers have been perfecting the leg.  One day they attached 11 electrodes on Zachs thigh and as the electrodes fed data to the bionic leg he could kick a soccer ball, and climb stairs. He'll  have many spectators cheering him on the climb. Because the number of hands and arms lost are higher than the loss of lower limbs thought controlled arms and hands have already been made. This 8 million dollar project has been funded by the US Department of Defense, and many other universities. In the next 10 years this product with be on the market, and several other advancements in technology will be made to bring more ideas and dreams like this to come true.



http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/9645860/Amputee-to-scale-Chicagos-Willis-Tower-with-thought-controlled-bionic-leg.html