DARPA AND THE BIONIC MAN

(above images courtesy of the John Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory)


Those of you who read my columns in Sport Fishing Magazine or Dockside Magazine or, for that matter, any of my freelance stuff (see the "verrry interesting" sites on the left, if you'd like a taste), have heard me mention DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.

A lot of gear and equipment that comes out of DARPA (and the ONR, Office of Naval Research) is stuff you and I will be using in the future, which could be as far off as 10 years from now or as close as yesterday. For those of you who don't know, DARPA (not Al Gore) helped create — among other things — something we now call the Internet.

Here’s one of the "yesterday" stories about advances in prosthetics, from freelance writer Michael Belfiore’s Dispatches from the Final Frontier blog, a site the rest of you tech geeks out there should bookmark.

Here's a Department of Defense story on prosthetics, and Here's one from Wired.