new prosthetic arm for soldiers


	new prosthetic arm for soldiers

ruralart

4-28-2008 3:20 PM

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medicine, military, wounded, soldier, amputee, engineering

ruralart says:

I could not get the very inspiring video to clip, but you can see it at http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/82

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