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Austria's 'Bionic Man' Dies In Car Crash
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."
... if pirates ever crashed ships into rocks, cliffs etc because of their 'bionic' limbs.
Where have I heard this story before...
Can you be Even More Awesome?!
I wonder if the arm turned blue when it crashed?
Great to see that [Australia] is firmly in the tags for this story.
Recent updates to the story via the Slashdot tagging system suggest that he may have swerved to avoid a Kangaroo, a common cause of accidents in South Eastern Austria.
...if they can rebuild him?
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OR he could have been passing some hot chicks in scant outfits and thought, I need to go talk to them forgetting he was driving down the road.
OR....seeing the hot chicks, he thought of doing something else with that bionic arm of his on another part of his body and due to a glitch in the message queue for his arm, the arm immediately started doing what he wanted to do on his extremity - the hand made a fist and the arm started jerking up and down very rapidly on the steering wheel causing him to lose control of the vehicle.
RIP America
July 4, 1776 - September 11, 2001
Yes, it was Austin. Steve Austin. Don't worry, they have the technology, they can rebuild him.
Too soon?
Don't take it personally, but I'm not going to read your pithy response to my post.
Kandlbauer crashed after swerving to avoid hitting a koala or possibly a strudel.
Maybe he was trying to open windows, and crashed...
This brings up a more alarming issue that I believe needs to be looked into before we begin walking around with cyborg parts attached. What if the machines have suicidal tendencies? I'm sure if I was attached to someone else and forced to do their bidding, then I wouldn't be too happy. Maybe his arm wasn't happy enough just being his arm! What if it dreamed of being a cell phone...and watching him talk blissfully on that beautiful piece of machinery just threw the arm over the edge!
I think that last one is "Was die vick, Ihnen!"
I'm surprised you didn't know that.
Do daemons dream of electric sleep()?
I think he was just looking at the ass of the hot girl jogging on the sidewalk next to him. The arms read his thoughts and turned toward what was on his mind.