TV reruns tell us that science fiction invented bionic people in the 1970s, but that only Steve Austin and Jaime Summers got to use the goods, which cost about $6 million to make. Well, a few decades later, actual science is at it with the bionic miracles.A 36-year-old paralyzed pregnant woman named Claire Lomas competed at England's Great North Run, the largest half-marathon in the world, wearing a bionic suit. Lomas, who is 16 weeks pregnant, began the race Wednesday and finished Sunday with the help of her husband Dan and the suit, which compensates for injuries she suffered in a riding accident in 2007. Those injuries included a fractured neck, dislocated back, fractured ribs, a punctured lung and pneumonia. She's a paraplegic who just ran a half-marathon. Lomas has been wearing the ReWalk robotic suits, and competing in them, since 2012.
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