November 2010 Blog Posts (5)

Wallace & Grommit World of Invention

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Added by Mark Lesek on November 23, 2010 at 1:05am — No Comments

Pre osseintegration video of robotic arm

Added by Mark Lesek on November 21, 2010 at 8:49pm — No Comments

Osseointegration Support Group Forum

This email is to create awareness of the Osseointegrated Support Group. This forum is designed for those amputees who are osseointegrated and those who have a desire to inform themselves on this innovative procedure. Also to all related medical professionals including orthopaedic and plastic…

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Added by Mark Lesek on November 15, 2010 at 8:54pm — 1 Comment

Osseointegration Taking off in the US

More information on my US OI study tour; As mentioned in the earlier post I attended an ACA Conference impromptu on a personal basis with no corporate support. Interest was overwhelming including an interview by done myself on NBC Television. To our suprise Kevin Carroll, an Irish American who is Vice President at Hanger Prosthetics used a full one and a half hour conference session which was advertised as "Empowering yourself as an…

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Added by Mark Lesek on November 10, 2010 at 7:00pm — 1 Comment

Green Spider Monkeys working on Lego hand

I'm posting for a group of kids I'm coaching in First Lego League. They are learning about bionics, and they decided to use the Lego hand shared by John Bergmann as part of a research project.

Here is a summary of their activities, project, ideas, findings, etc. They are a group of 6 elementary students in grades 2-5 so please consider that when reading. Their plan is quite simple, but who knows, they might be onto something? Kids are good at thinking outside the box.

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Added by Sally White on November 3, 2010 at 3:41pm — 1 Comment