{"id":32,"date":"2014-02-06T10:55:47","date_gmt":"2014-02-06T10:55:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/rtsic\/?p=32"},"modified":"2014-02-06T10:55:47","modified_gmt":"2014-02-06T10:55:47","slug":"action-commences-in-sochi-for-the-2014-winter-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/rtsic\/2014\/02\/06\/action-commences-in-sochi-for-the-2014-winter-olympics\/","title":{"rendered":"Action commences in Sochi for the 2014 Winter Olympics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While we are bracing ourselves for another onslaught of wind and rain, Team GB&#8217;s Winter Olympic hopefuls in the sub-tropical climate of Sochi are gearing up for action as the first events have begun today.<\/p>\n<p>First news from Sochi is that GB&#8217;s Jamie Nicholls has qualified for the Slopestyle (snowboarding) finals on Saturday and his team mate Billy Morgan has a second chance to make the finals through the semi-finals on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Keeping the winter sports theme, check out this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seas.gwu.edu\/IMPACT\/prospective\/home\/biowoman\/index.html\">great cartoon<\/a> from George Washington University. It&#8217;s a really nice way of demonstrating the great work that goes on within the Bioengineering Sector and trying to attract the next generation of young Bioengineers.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, there was an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/health-26036429\">interesting story on the BBC<\/a> regarding the development sensor technology, within a bionic hand, to enable the user to be feel the form, stiffness and texture of an object as they grab it. This work forms part of a whole body of interesting research into the use of electrical stimulus to provide both feedback and control over prosthetic limbs.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">RTSIC Case Study<\/span><\/p>\n<p>If the article above has caught your interest then check out this <a href=\"https:\/\/workspace.imperial.ac.uk\/engineering\/Public\/Projects\/IDE%202013\/Group%201%20Para%20-%20Cycling%20-%20EMG%20operated%20gearbox.pdf\">RTSIC 2nd Year Bioengineering project<\/a> from 2011\/12, which utilised Electromyography \u00a0to enable gear changing on a bicycle for cyclists with upper limb prostheses.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While we are bracing ourselves for another onslaught of wind and rain, Team GB&#8217;s Winter Olympic hopefuls in the sub-tropical climate of Sochi are gearing up for action as the first events have begun today. First news from Sochi is that GB&#8217;s Jamie Nicholls has qualified for the Slopestyle (snowboarding) finals on Saturday and his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":676,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19017,6057],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prosthesis-design","category-rtsic-case-study"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/rtsic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/rtsic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/rtsic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/rtsic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/676"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/rtsic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/rtsic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/rtsic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32\/revisions\/33"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/rtsic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/rtsic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/rtsic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}