Bionic Legs For Paraplegics? Want To Try It Out Yourself?

We see cool gadgets all the time here at TechCrunch. But not many of them can help paraplegics walk again. This one does. Berkeley Bionics has created an exoskeleton product called eLegs that literally gets these people up and walking. Arm swings on crutches control the legs and tell them when to walk. Time Magazine calls it one 50 best inventions of 2010, and they are clearly right. Technology like this may eliminate the concept of a wheelchair for millions of people with spinal cord injuries, stroke, MS, etc.. Here's it in action:

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