[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMm0BHUWZ2Q&feature=player_embedded"]Robot Exoskeleton helps man walk after 20yrs in a wheelchair - YouTube[/ame]
That's cool, but how about this one: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1356079/Bionic-arm-controlled-mind.html There was also another article, but I can't seem to find it - about one the car companies giving a very high-tech prosthetic arm to a boy who wrote them offering space for advertising. Now that's a good idea.
This is definitely a cool moment as well: http://www.finerminds.com/consciousness-awareness/girl-hears-herself-for-the-first-time/ Girl hears for the first time thanks to a cochlear implant
I may be a cynic, but there's no way that girl was deaf her entire life. You don't start speaking English perfectly after 29 years of hearing nothing.