As amazing is the use of carbon fiber for a lower leg
replacement.  I've seen pix of one runner with an
S-shaped (viewed in profile) piece of CF below the
knee that mimics the flex and rebound properties of
the other leg and foot.  No moving parts.

Stephen

--- neil <musomuso@GMAIL.COM> wrote:

> On 1/16/07, John Rodgers <inua@charter.net> wrote:
> > neil wrote:
> > >
> > > I also look forward to some kind of amazing new
> titanium (or other)
> > > knees, hips
> > They got it.
> >
> > New prosthetics use titanium stumps and mounts.
> .....
>
> > Because of it , they are doing some amazing things
> for those wonderful
> > guys and gals coming back from Iraq with missing
> limbs.
>
> Great to hear of the progress with prosthetics. In
> joking around about
> my potential needs down the road, I picked a
> material that sounded
> good on paper. Didn't know they were using it.
>
>
> >
> > > and a new brain, though brain should not make me
> smell
> > > toast all the time.....right now I hear voices
> AND smell toast, but
> > > could live with just the voices.....  ---- ;^)
> > >
> > No toast for me, but if at night I turn my head at
> just the right angle
> > on my pillow, I can go to sleep listening to the
> radio --- through my
> > teeth! <g>  I still have them, but they have been
> drilled, filled,
> > capped and crowned with enough metal to build  a
> mini-cooper.
>
> And radio through teeth at night??
>
> Gilligan's Island was factually correct? --- ;^)
>

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