Buy Drugs off the Web, Hack a New Arm, Kickstarter - Download This Show - ABC Radio National (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

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Can you hack a new arm? We meet the man who has hacked Microsoft Kinect to help people who suffer from phantom limb syndrome. We slip into the Dark Web and go shopping on the infamous online pharmacy The Silk Road. Along the way we examine Bitcoin and the world of virtual currencies and whether they truly have a future. Plus how virtual pan-handling can give you one million dollars as we evaluate the world of crowdsourcing and Kickstarter. 

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