Awesome Bionic

Hugh Herr and his colleagues at MIT’s Biomechatronics group develop artificial limbs that complete or augment the human body. His presentation is amazing, but if you’re short on time skip to 13:40. Really, watch the whole thing.

Chinese farmer Sun Jifa found that the prosthetics available to him after he lost his hands in a freak accident were too limiting so he made his own. His can-do attitude and the capabilities of his designs are truly inspirational.

Automation company Festo’s herring gull-inspired ultralight bionic SmartBird has wings that beat and twist; it starts, flies and lands autonomously with no additional drive mechanism. (Thanks Bryn!)

Relive your childhood Lindsay Wagner fantasies with the long-awaited re-release of the classic Bionic Woman’s first season. Crushing tennis balls and running in slow-mo never gets old for us.

iThink is one of those products that we prefer not to “think” about, so frightening are its implications. A concept by graphic designer Paul Micarelli, it’s a cyborg implant with hints of The Matrix.