Comments on: 5-year-old Gets Racing Legs

By: ersatz

ersatz — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 10:42:19 +0000

get her running now and she’ll be able to kick the crap out of any Olympic sprinter in 10 years.

I’d rather have hands than legs though.

By: Foreigner1

Foreigner1 — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 08:58:29 +0000

Some funding by fundraising, some researchfunds from the company itself and that for the rest of her life because she is the Ultimate testbench for those legs.

She’ll be the ultimate expert on these things with both her legs and her arms. And no it won’t be only every 2 years- She’ll have to revisit the labs sometimes every week because there’ll be tweaking and adjusting and testing if it all works properly needed and she’ll feel things and she’ll have remarks and suggestions and more improvements needed and she’ll need therapy and help for her stumps and for the effects of the enclosures of the stumpcups and so on. And then some times there will be tch’s who want to try out new stuff on her because she is young and she can adjust fast enough and she has lots of experience.

The’s one person who already has a job for life.

By: ivymae

ivymae — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 22:06:58 +0000

Go Ellie go!

The 50,000 pounds raised by fundraising is amazing.

By: Skipweasel

Skipweasel — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 20:20:33 +0000

Ah, the joys of the NHS.

I don’t suppose there’s /any/ chance of the old legs being reused somewhere deserving.

By: Gauldar

Gauldar — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 18:51:29 +0000

Wonder if they can get a discount for a trade-in.

By: Jigore

Jigore — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 18:42:24 +0000

10000£ every 2 years

By: Gadget Sleuth

Gadget Sleuth — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 16:37:31 +0000

Good news (sort of, as procedures every two years doesn’t sound fun).

By: Gauldar

Gauldar — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 14:48:35 +0000

Wow, replaced every two years. I hope her progress keeps up as she gets older, and she may even be involved in the forefront of amputee technologies as she gets older. Cyborg tech FTW!