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Bionic Cat Gets World's First Implant Paws

Posted by kdawson on from the ten-lives dept.

Several readers send in the news of Oscar, the first bionic cat, whose hind paws got cut off in a harvester accident. In a world's-first operation, a neurosurgeon has now given him exoprosthetic paws that are implanted directly into his leg bones. The BBC artlcle has a video captured just after the operation, and PopSci has an apparently later one in which Oscar is walking and running almost completely normally.

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  1. Re:Claws by Hylandr · · Score: 0, Troll

    And unobtanium body armer!

    Linux is only free if your time is worthless, -- At least I spend less of my worthless time installing and configuring Linux than I do windows.

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