{"id":9715,"date":"2014-01-02T15:25:47","date_gmt":"2014-01-02T23:25:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=9715"},"modified":"2017-04-25T04:20:16","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T11:20:16","slug":"a-mind-controlled-exoskeleton-will-kick-off-the-2014-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2014\/01\/a-mind-controlled-exoskeleton-will-kick-off-the-2014-world-cup","title":{"rendered":"A Mind-Controlled Exoskeleton Will Kick Off the 2014 World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>By <span class=\"author\"> Devin Powell \u2014 Washington Post<br \/>\n<\/span><\/h3>\n<h3><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"decoded\" alt=\"http:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/media\/inline\/imported\/mind-in-motion_2.jpg\" src=\"\" \/><\/h3>\n<p>The first kick of the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fifa.com\/worldcup\/matches\/matchschedule.html\" data-xslt=\"_http\"> 2014 FIFA World Cup<\/a> may be delivered in Sao Paulo next June by a Brazilian who is paralyzed from the waist down. If all goes according to plan, the teenager will walk onto the field, cock back a foot and swing at the soccer ball, using a mechanical exoskeleton controlled by the teen\u2019s brain.The first kick of the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fifa.com\/worldcup\/matches\/matchschedule.html\" data-xslt=\"_http\"> 2014 FIFA World Cup<\/a> may be delivered in Sao Paulo next June by a Brazilian who is paralyzed from the waist down. If all goes according to plan, the teenager will walk onto the field, cock back a foot and swing at the soccer ball, using a mechanical exoskeleton controlled by the teen\u2019s brain.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national\/health-science\/mind-controlled-prostheses-offer-hope-for-disabled\/2013\/05\/03\/fbc1018a-8778-11e2-98a3-b3db6b9ac586_story.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Devin Powell \u2014 Washington Post The first kick of the 2014 FIFA World Cup may be delivered in Sao Paulo next June by a Brazilian who is paralyzed from the waist down. If all goes according to plan, the teenager will walk onto the field, cock back a foot and swing at the soccer [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1516],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-exoskeleton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9715","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\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9715"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9715\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47320,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9715\/revisions\/47320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}