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The Swiss National Competence Center of Research will host the first Cybathlon in Switzerland in October 2016. This 'Olympics for bionic athletes' will include races where competitors who are paralysed from the neck down control an avatar via a brain interface. There will also be races for those wearing arm or leg prosthetics, an exoskeleton race and a wheelchair race.
There will be two medals for each competition, one for the pilot and one for company that developed the device.
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You will contract a rare disease.
(Score: 1) by song-of-the-pogo on Thursday March 27 2014, @07:24PM
I came here to say essentially what you said. A performance enhanced Olympics, as you put it, would be fascinating to see. What potentially useful ways of maximizing human physical potential might come out of such a thing? On the flip side, I imagine we would soon see how spectacularly wrong things could go.
"We have met the enemy and he is us."