Bionics

ENG 380T – Literature and Medicine Nicole Radova The Bionic Eye: A Collaborative Vision “Seeing is believing” – an idiom commonly uttered and heard in today’s Western world. Sight has been deemed the superior sense in our society since its association with knowledge acquisition in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries (Classen 1997, 402), which the Scientific Revolution directly preceded. Yet available to us are four other senses, which itself is not an ultimate truth as the very concept…

The “Bionic Eye” can be dated back to 1755. Before the many vaccines and treatments we have today, when highly spreading epidemics would occur, patients would become blind due to high fever. “French scientist Charles Leroy discharged the static electricity from a Leyden jar, into a blind patient’s body using two wires. One tightened just above the eyes and the other wrapped around the legs. The effect of this caused the experience on a flame like sensation passing downward in front of the eye.”1…

Arlington, Virginia. She has been divorced once (Jesse James), and has adopted two children. Bullock made her acting debut in 1987 in a movie called "Hangmen", that she had a minor role in, and her television debut in 1989 on "Bionic Showdown: The Six Million Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman". She also had the lead role on "Working Girl" in 1990 that did not last very long (only lasting for twelve episodes). Her breakthrough role was in the movie "Demolition Man", which came out in 1993, that…

1871, Gamble “The Supremacy of the Male” in 1916, to Six Million Dollar Man episode, “The Bionic Woman” in 1975, the concept of the female identity has shown in different lights. Though Gamble agreed with some aspects of Darwin’s arguments, she strongly believes in how females are the stronger one in the human species. Years later Gamble’s point of a stronger woman is displayed in history and is proven in “Bionic Woman” and shows the feminine identity in modern times. The female identity itself…

Haley Collins Ms. Graham Period 3 Biology H February 27th 2015 Bionic Antibiotics VS. Bacteria Abstract: The bacteria lab preformed in class tested the effectiveness of antibiotics against bacteria. During the lab we tested the antibiotics penicillin, streptomycin and tetracycline against the bacteria Escherichia coli and Staphylococcus epidermis in order to determine which antibiotics fought which bacteria most successfully. In order to monitor the experiment, we kept a control sample in…

Pontz was diagnosed with RP as a teenager and became completely blind at 40 years old. He received the bionic eye surgery in January 2014. The bionic eye, called Argus ll, is basically a pair of glasses with a small camera connected to a small prosthesis in the patient’s eyes. As small as a pencil eraser, the prosthesis fits in the patient’s eye and allows the camera to change…

advances in human bionics have made humans rethink what it actually means to be human. With recent technology including prosthetics, i-limbs and even artificial organs the line has crossed between human and machine. There are many positives and negatives to the development of these new machines that include allowing people to walk and hear again to the negative effects that include bionics that need batteries are very expensive and do not last very long. One positive effect of human bionics is…

disclosing my age here, but does anyone remember the series The Six-Million Dollar Man and its spin-off, the Bionic Woman? NASA Astronaut Steve Austin (who was wonderfully portrayed by Lee Majors), was severely injured during a crash. He was ‘rebuilt’ in an operation costing six million dollars (hence the name of the series). All in all, Austin received bionic legs, a left eye and a right arm. These bionic implants enhanced his vision, speed and strength, making his capabilities much higher than…

Girls wear pink. Boys wear blue. Girls stay in the house and do housework; boys like to go outdoors and work. Girls are told to wait their entire lives for the boy they will marry and their happily ever after. Stereotypes surround each and every person. Gender is often one of these stereotypes. Can a girl not enjoy the outdoors? Can a boy not enjoy the color pink? Can a girl not like outfits that contain the color blue? The way that individuals are raised can affect the way they act and…

passive. The way passive legs work is that the user of the limb has to swing the leg forward to walk. The newer legs use technology called bionic prosthetics devices. “In the last few years Goldfarb and his colleagues have developed the first bionic lower limb prosthetic with powered knee and ankle joints that operate in unison”(“prosthetic limb”). With the new bionic legs the user of the leg has much less work to move the leg. It can help make patterned activities, such as sitting, standing,…