Austria's 'Bionic Man' Dies In Car Crash

Posted by timothy on Sunday October 24, 2010 @12:08PM from the sad-to-hear dept.

euphemistic writes "An Austrian man who became the first person outside the US to wear thought-powered 'bionic' arms has died from injuries sustained in a car crash ... Kandlbauer, who would have turned 23 next month, sustained severe head injuries when the specially modified car he was driving swerved off the road in the south east of Austria and crashed into a tree on October 19. The cause of the accident is not yet known, particularly whether the neurally-controlled arm-prostheses he had been fitted with might have played a role."

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Re:Seriously? by stonedcat · 2010-10-24 12:23 · Score: 0, Flamebait

"Posted by timothy on 08:08 PM -- Sunday October 24 2010"
Kinda looks like it was posted 15 minutes ago or so... are you from the future?

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Re:he died a pioneer by Angst+Badger · 2010-10-24 13:39 · Score: 1, Flamebait

we should all be so lucky, to die pioneering new frontiers
He did no such thing. He died using an unproven technology as a single point of failure in a critical system. Windows sysadmins the world over do that day in and day out.

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