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Man to test bionic leg by climbing Chicago tower

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In this Oct. 25, 2012 photo, Zac Vawter, fitted with an experimental "bionic" leg, looks down from the Ledge at the Willis Tower in Chicago. Vawter is training for the world's tallest stair-climbing event where he'll attempt to climb 103 flights to the top of the Willis Tower using the new prosthesis. (AP Photo/Brian Kersey) / Brian Kersey CHICAGO Zac Vawter considers himself a test pilot. After losing his right leg in a motorcycle accident, the 31-year-old software engineer signed up to become a research subject, helping to test a trailblazing prosthetic leg that's controlled by his thoughts. He will put this groundbreaking bionic leg to the ultimate test Sunday when he attempts to climb 103 flights of stairs to the top of Chicago's Willis Tower, one of the world's tallest skyscrapers.

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Zac Vawter

Overall Sentiment: 0.0750709

Relevance: 0.894807

SentimentQuote
0.0114457Vawter will think, "Climb stairs," ...
-0.0251681Vawter hopes to make it to the top in an hour, longer than it would've taken before his amputation, less time than it would take with his normal prosthetic leg - or, as he calls it, his "dumb" ...
0.196908"Somewhere down the road, it will benefit me and I hope it will benefit a lot of other people as well," Vawter said ...
Sentiment Stats:
  • Number of Quotes: 3
  • Aggregate Sentiment: 0.1831856
  • Mean: 0.061061866666667
  • Standard Deviation: 1

Levi Hargrove

Overall Sentiment: -0.103909

Relevance: 0.259472

SentimentQuote
0"targeted muscle reinnervation" and it's like "rewiring the patient," Hargrove said. ...
-0.263035"targeted muscle reinnervation" and it's like "rewiring the patient," Hargrove said. "And now when he just thinks about moving his ankle, his hamstring moves and we're able to tell the prosthesis how to move appropriately."
-0.379991"I've run marathons, and when you're in pain, you just think about Terry Fox who did it with a wooden leg and made it halfway across Canada before cancer returned," Hargrove said. ...
Sentiment Stats:
  • Number of Quotes: 3
  • Aggregate Sentiment: -0.643026
  • Mean: -0.214342
  • Standard Deviation: 0

Daniel Ferris

Overall Sentiment: 0.127526

Relevance: 0.157705

SentimentQuote
0.0747582"They're basically fancy wooden legs," said Daniel Ferris ...
0"This is a step beyond the state of the art," Ferris said. ...
0.114494"This is a step beyond the state of the art," Ferris said. "If they can achieve it, it's very noteworthy and suggests in the next 10 years or so there will be good commercial devices out there."
Sentiment Stats:
  • Number of Quotes: 3
  • Aggregate Sentiment: 0.1892522
  • Mean: 0.063084066666667
  • Standard Deviation: 1

Terry Fox

Overall Sentiment: 0.0970502

Relevance: 0.157448

Photo/Brian Kersey

Overall Sentiment: 0

Relevance: 0.142749

Luke Skywalker

Overall Sentiment: -0.0938948

Relevance: 0.123186

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