"I had more than a few kids ask me if I was a bionic man, " he said.

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"The guy is 43 years old - he's not the Bionic Man, he's human, " Calzaghe told BBC Sport.

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The BBC reports that an Austrian man has elected to have his paralyzed hand replaced with a bionic one.

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Take, for example, the story of 51-year-old Chinese man Sun Jifa, who lost both of his arms in an explosion and built his own bionic hands out of scrap metal.

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