Word: holgersen
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What Stelarc, who began his career in the 1960s as a "failed painter," is doing out of artistic choice, Brian Holgersen, a 30-year-old Danish tetraplegic, is doing out of physical necessity. For Holgersen, technology has already become a part of his body. Eight years ago, on a motorcycle trip to the U.K. to visit his sister, he was in an accident and broke his neck. Except for some minor movement in his shoulders, left arm and left hand, he was paralyzed below the neck. Holgersen underwent an experimental surgical procedure to implant a neural prosthesis - an interface between...