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...sound of a Ping-Pong ball suddenly shatters the quiet. I see nothing but can sense the ball moving left, then right, then back again (and again and again). My ears are performing the equivalent of the left-and-right neck pivot required to watch tennis. Finally the ball drops to the ground and rolls. Still in total darkness, I can sense which direction it's moving...
Like any technology, the dolls are constantly changing. The feel of silicone has improved and sensors are being added to the doll's naughty bits so it can tell when it is being touched. Via an Ethernet port in the neck, you can trigger audio samplings like "Oooooh, baby." McMullen walks over to another doll and flips a switch. An electric motor purrs and the doll begins to grind its hips with enough thrust to silence even Captain Kirk's constant demands for more...
...impenetrable skin. Next, I set loose the Blade Fly, whose razor pincers make for nasty weapons. I prepare for a fight. But this enemy is too clever: he has set a hidden trap that swallows the fly. "Game over," says Hiroaki Namikata. "You suck." I consider wringing his neck but decide this would upset his mom. "You'll get better in time," Hiroaki says, as he slurps down his lemon soda...
Each morning, Kohli, a Swiss national who suffers from multiple sclerosis, which has left him paralyzed from the neck down, maneuvers his wheelchair using a chin-operated control to a table in the living room of his Bangalore bungalow. There, neatly laid out, are his laptop, transceivers and an assortment of amateur radio equipment. His physical movements may be limited, but by using his mouth to manipulate a set of three sticks to work his laptop, Kohli, an avid ham operator, can change the direction and height of the four massive antennas on his roof and communicate with the world...
...violent operation," says cardiothoracic surgeon Murali Dharan, making a digging motion with his hands. With the da Vinci, Dharan was able to remove Tichtchenko's cancerous esophagus and move her stomach up much higher - to allow her to feed herself minus her swallowing mechanism - through small incisions in her neck. "I'd watched E.R. on TV at home, but I never imagined how fully I'd get to be involved," she says, over lunch three weeks after her operation...