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Few would have mustered the optimism or the ingenuity.
But Sun Jifa didn't have the money to buy replacements. What else was he supposed to do but build his own?
Did Sun, 51, of Guanmashan, northern China, need new seats for his car or coffee tables for his living room? Not quite.
He needed new hands, after he'd blown off his own.
He'd built a bomb to go blast fishing and, well, it wasn't a very good bomb. It blew up before it was supposed to.
As the Daily Mail tells it, Sun spent 8 years piecing together scrap metal in order to create something that worked.
Of course, the idea of building new parts of yourself has progressed far beyond an old TV show like "The Six Million Dollar Man" or "The Bionic Woman."
All sorts of implantable and attachable devices are helping people live lives they never thought they could.
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