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Breakthrough. i lost my biological legs in 1982 from a mountain climbing accident, and i've been in a lifelong mission to advance normal technologies to enable both myself and other amputees to walk more freely, more naturally. my name is hugh herr. i founded a company called iwalk. we advance robotic, very high-tech artificial limbs to allow people to move again. i'm getting a tremendous amount of energy, power from the ankles, which enables me to walk uphill with a perfectly erect posture, with conventional technology, when i walk up a hill, it's laborious. the system is motorized, and the

Power supply is a battery. the systems have five computers and 12 sensors so as i walk they're continually sensing the ground surface. >> when you finish, log out. you're taking something that people perceive as a handicap, that you're disabled, and in a way now you're turning that on its head. it's like you are enabled. >> man, that stuff is really cool. to check it out yourself, this thing called iwalk, go to cnn.com/ali, my blog. i'll link you to everything you need to know. fascinating. a major player in the midterm elections has a new target. mark preston breaks it down for us right aft...