How to pronounce “bionic” in English

It's a bionic eye, and it allows people to see some quite rudimentary things.

And so the bionic pancreas brings all this intellectual power, and helps it understand, well, if the blood sugar is dropping, I'm going to shut the pump off.

And so the word bionic is used a lot, the words dexterous and manipulation

It's a bit like the bionic eye, that you think that the progression of accessibility options

He has one of the most advanced bionic arms and hands in the world.

And we do not have bionic people.

with you is not locked into a bionic Beam by which I was stuck uh with which I was stuck through

And Dean Kamen invented the segway and the bionic pump and the iBOT electric wheelchair and the insulin pump and the Slingshot water purifier.

That boys wanted evil-- so you can see when they did Bionicle that there's dark and red and blood and death.

And there are other injured soldiers out there who describe themselves as bionic or cyborgs or differently-abled.

And in the book, I look at bionic eyes a bit.

And she was the first pediatric patient at Mass General Hospital to try the bionic pancreas, which is what you see here.

You can swap it out, bring in the bionic ligament, extend your career, be able to the throw the ball harder.

One is a group in San Francisco at a company called Ekso Bionics who, Lara, I know you will probably

And then I walked over a million and a half steps in my Ekso Bionics robotic legs.

Like, could it be a robot or bionics?

And just to finish that story, there was a bionic eye.

And FDA is saying that by 2017, we're likely to see an approval for the bionic pancreas, or a version of it.

So even though she was willing to try these drug trials and she was trying the insulin pump and she was trying the bionic pancreas,

And yet, we knew from having been in Washington that the reality of getting a bionic pancreas was years away.

And that's because he's become best known for his work giving people's pets bionic limbs-- prosthetics that are permanently implanted into

By 10 years from now, the first people with bionic eyes will be here.

So we started to get to know these two groups, Ekso Bionics and the scientists at UCLA, led by a visionary scientist called

In my Bionic Ability hand review, I talk about

But you do raise this really interesting point in your book about there's the integration of the person with the technology, whether it's prosthetics or a bionic eye, or what have you.

for approving these devices was so unclear that industry was saying they were no longer going to be investing in the advancements with the bionic pancreas,

to create a regulatory pathway that industry could see that would ultimately ensure if all these boxes were checked, we could get to a place where the bionic pancreas

We went home from this Congress on high, feeling optimistic that the FDA was going to create a road map and that someday very soon Elle would have the bionic pancreas.

One of the leaders in this field is a British veterinary surgeon named Noel Fitzpatrick, and he is sometimes known as the Bionic Vet.

But the exciting thing was we find Reggie and his team at UCLA, we found the team at Ekso Bionics, and we started to work with them.

Well, I mean, if I just talk about the team at Ekso Bionics, I was one of their early enthusiastic test pilots.

There's a whole branch of engineering called bionics, and they look