Did you ever watch the Six Million Dollar Man? The show was
extremely popular in the 1970s and was quickly followed by
another show called, The Bionic Woman. In these two action
adventure series, medical science had evolved to the point that
they could replace damaged and missing body parts with bionic
ones. This, of course, gave the recipient super-human powers
that they used for the good of society. They could run faster
than any criminal and were able to throw the bad guys long
distances in order to disarm them in a mostly peaceful way. Back
then people didnâ€™t often die on a television series â€“ heck,
they didnâ€™t even bleed usually. But thatâ€™s another story.
The bionic breakthrough is much more real than we ever thought
it could be back then. A company called Bionic Vision Australia
has designed, built, and successfully implanted a bionic eye in
a vision impaired woman. The eye has 24 electrodes attached to a
small wire that extends from the back of the eye to a receptor
located behind the ear. The