Science Builds the Bionic Cat

[elvor0]

Aww, that made me smile, great to see him poking around in a reasonably normal fashion. GO CYBER CAT, DESTROY! This could have some great advances for prosthetics.

In other news. http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=28

 

[Chase Yojimbo]

KITTY! when i read this, i was ready to bawl that the kitty suffered so much pain, but happy now that little Oscar can leap and bound! "We have the Technology, but i don't want to spend a lot of money..."

I love kitties... I miss my own kitties back at home... /cry.

 

[The Grim Ace]

Because of this one day cats will mew in binary. I will be thoroughly entertained.

 

[zombiejoe]

We can rebuild him, we have the technology!

The $6,000,000 dollar cat.

 

[Quaidis]

First time I heard of a farmer taking a cat to a vet, more or less shipping it off to become a cybercat. Usually in these circumstances the cat is put out of its misery with a gun on site... Or thereafter eaten by the farmer's large dog.

Reading this article reminds me of that time a year or five ago when they attached the same (or at least similar) prosthesis to a dog without two back legs. There was this large fuss about how they had to drill the prosthesis into the bone and that the first attempt wouldn't stay in, so they had to drill further into the bone with a bigger chunk of steel.

They also have some pretty successful prosthesis for human-kind already. Didn't a woman run some large race with a fake leg fitted with a spring of some type?

Wait a moment. I will find links.

Dog's name was Triumph, an amputee husky. Here's the website: http://www.triumphthedog.net/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggVALdVtdHs

http://www.ktuu.com/Global/story.asp?S=12678335 marathon runner news. It's amazing what you find while running over the internet.

 

[interspark]

but the question is... will oscar use his bionic limbs for good? ..... or evil!? i had a cat without a tail once, perhaps in this new fangled day and age she could have had a bionic tail, with a swish that could tear through bricks!!!

 

[The Lost Big Boss]

A veterinary surgeon in the U.K. has brought human civilization one step closer to ruin by attaching two bionic limbs to a cat that was injured in a farming accident.

HOW can you say that? The cat was freaking saved.
Stop fearing technology.

What's next for Oscar? Perhaps bionic claws that will allow him to destroy your furniture, maul your dog and kill every bird on the block, better, stronger and faster than ever before. After all, we have the technology; we have the capability.

Once again, stop fearing technology.
And cats already shread your furniture without the use of cybernetics.

I don't think he is really afraid of technology, its just a joke.

 

[interspark]

All these newfangled gadgets. Whats wrong with attaching a wheelchair to its rear like everyone else puts up with? /grumble

how about the fact that it would screw up a felines very existance? id love to see my cat allan jump the 3 feet from the sideboard to the table with wheels instead of rear legs! actually i wouldnt much like to see that at all, id find it quite saddning

 

[The_root_of_all_evil]

"The real revolution with Oscar is [that] we have put a piece of metal and a flange into which skin grows into an extremely tight bone," Fitzpatrick told the BBC [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science_and_environment/10404251.stm].

A tribe of gibbons into the skin? How did they manage that.

This is pretty cool though. One small step for a cat, one giant leap for bionics.

Bet the cat doesn't have the dih-dih-dih-dih-dih noise and the slow motion though.

 

[Spacemike]

Poor thing, I wonder what the cat thinks about the whole process and if he realizes that his owners hooked him up with some next gen prosthetics.

 

[The Great JT]

Oscar the cat. His paws cut off in an unfortunate combine harvester accident. But we have rebuilt him. We have the technology.

And soon, this technology could be applied to people! Could you imagine a world where bionic limbs work? Hell, we could end up with automail! Suddenly, that image makes me hate the world a lot less.

Also, that picture of the cat with the bionic legs makes me hate humanity less. He's so adorable...and yet so tech-awesome.

 

[Silver Patriot]

A veterinary surgeon in the U.K. has brought human civilization one step closer to ruin by attaching two bionic limbs to a cat that was injured in a farming accident.

HOW can you say that? The cat was freaking saved.
Stop fearing technology.

What's next for Oscar? Perhaps bionic claws that will allow him to destroy your furniture, maul your dog and kill every bird on the block, better, stronger and faster than ever before. After all, we have the technology; we have the capability.

Once again, stop fearing technology.
And cats already shread your furniture without the use of cybernetics.

I don't think he is really afraid of technology, its just a joke.

I can't seperate such jokes if it is one.
I've spoken with too many technology-scared people <_<

Uhhh . . . I. . . sigh. I thought the entire internet had an understanding when it came to cats and furture overlords.

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I want to imagine the conversation with the vet.

"Is their anything we can do?"

"We can rebuild him. Make him stronger, faster, more agile."

 

[elvor0]

A veterinary surgeon in the U.K. has brought human civilization one step closer to ruin by attaching two bionic limbs to a cat that was injured in a farming accident.

HOW can you say that? The cat was freaking saved.
Stop fearing technology.

What's next for Oscar? Perhaps bionic claws that will allow him to destroy your furniture, maul your dog and kill every bird on the block, better, stronger and faster than ever before. After all, we have the technology; we have the capability.

Once again, stop fearing technology.
And cats already shread your furniture without the use of cybernetics.

I believe it's part of the running joke that we will be murdered by skynet/a robot uprising/cyborgs in the inevitible robot uprising that comes with all these advances in technology, it's like that in the movies!

(noticing your above post, i found it highly unlikely a journalist for a GAMING AND TECHNOLOGY site is going to be a technophobe.)

 

[Colonel Joson]

YAY, Kitty can walk again. YAY For science... but when the machines take over, Bionic Cat might the first thing to turn