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The ProDigits is a bionic fingers prosthetic developed by Touch Bionics out of Livingston, West Lothian. The device fits over the palm of a person's hand where loss fingers are.

Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh have successfully implanted a device in a monkey, giving it control to move a mechanical arm with its brain. This technology could assist disabled people and help them to live a normal life. Oscar Pistorius uses carbon fiber-composite legs and is one of the fastest athletes in the world. He wanted to participate in the Beijing Olympics but was rejected because the bionic prosthetics apparently gave him an advantage over normal athletes. This poses one ethical issue if bionics become mainstream. People might decide to get rid of their human legs and replace them with these for an advantage.

Touch Bionics' i-LIMB was considered one of the top 50 inventions of 2008 in Time Magazine. The i-LIMB has five separately powered digits control by myoelectrics and powered by a lithium-ion battery.

Television's Six Million Dollar Man foresaw a future when man and machine would become one. New research at Tel Aviv University is making this futuristic "vision" of bionics a reality.

There are millions of blind people who are hoping that medical technology would enable them to see the world one day. Well, the day is not far when the use of a bionic eye would be a routine medical procedure, which gives near perfect vision.

Controversy over Olympian Oscar Pistorius advantage with bionic lower limbs over the other racers.

Medical products company Second Sight developed an optical prosthetic, the Argus II, to be used for those who loss their vision due to injuries or diseases. It's a wireless communication system that's implanted into the eye that will capture images and transmit it to the brain. Second Sight has received funding from the U.S federal government.

The article is about neuroscientists being able to store information in brain tissue. The researchers at the Case Western Reserve University conducted experiments to store information in working memory, which is short term storage. The researchers will look into how much information can be stored in the hippocampus. The study was funded by the National Institutes of Health. The article is not from a peer review journal. The article can relate to see if the bionic parts can respond to the brain and vice versa, which could prove useful in the bibliography.

The article is about a new device, invented by a team of top European Union researchers at the Tel Aviv University, called the SmartHand. The purpose of the SmartHand is to function as a replacement hand, in the event an individual were to lose their hand. The Hand functions by wiring itself into the nerve endings of the patient. The first human subject to try the Smart Hand, Robin af Ekenstam of Sweden, comments that he can 'feel' his fingers, hinting that it feels somewhat natural. Some of the applications of the device can allow the user to eat by themselves as well as write with that hand. A challenge that the scientists will commit to now is to improve control between the brain and the hand, as well as give it artificial skin to hide the bionic look. The project is funded by the E.U. Sixth Framework.

Document on Bionics from University of Genova.

Research on placing microelectrodes on top of the brain instead of being implanted. Useful for people with paralysis.