{"id":18915,"date":"2015-10-30T10:47:41","date_gmt":"2015-10-30T17:47:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/are-these-artificial-limbs-better-than-the-real-thing"},"modified":"2017-06-04T11:27:52","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T18:27:52","slug":"are-these-artificial-limbs-better-than-the-real-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/are-these-artificial-limbs-better-than-the-real-thing","title":{"rendered":"Are these artificial limbs better than the real thing?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/are-these-artificial-limbs-better-than-the-real-thing.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>These people have got a leg \u2014 or an arm \u2014 up on the future.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to the latest advancements in medical science, amputees are becoming part robot, with awe-inspiring artificial limbs that would make Luke Skywalker jealous.<\/p>\n<p>These new limbs come armed with microprocessors and electrodes that sense muscle movement. Others can be controlled by a smartphone app. People missing limbs often tried to hide their prosthetics, but these New Yorkers are showing them off with pride.<br \/> Rebekah Marine.<\/p>\n<p>Rebekah Marine had the modeling bug from a young age, playing dress-up as a kid and getting her mom to take her to try out for modeling agencies in New York.<\/p>\n<p>The one problem? She was born without part of her right arm.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was just kind of quickly denied from [agencies] based on my quote-unquote disability,\u201d the 28-year-old says.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nypost.com\/2015\/10\/25\/five-amputees-show-off-the-amazing-advances-in-artificial-limbs\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These people have got a leg \u2014 or an arm \u2014 up on the future. Thanks to the latest advancements in medical science, amputees are becoming part robot, with awe-inspiring artificial limbs that would make Luke Skywalker jealous. These new limbs come armed with microprocessors and electrodes that sense muscle movement. Others can be controlled [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":364,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1499,1512,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-cyborgs","category-mobile-phones","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/364"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18915"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63825,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18915\/revisions\/63825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}