He's backed by big name sponsors including Nike, Oakley, BT, Ossur and fashion designer Thierry Mugler.
"We've started to raise the bar, " said Hilmar Janusson, Ossur's Vice President of Research and Development.
The two most-traded stocks were Ossur, a health care equipment maker, and Marel, an industrial machinery firm.
He also has deals with BT, Oakley, and Ossur, the Icelandic firm that makes his carbon-fibre blades.
"This is the second generation Power Knee, " says Tabi King, a spokesperson for Ossur Americas, the manufacturer.
Pistorius also has a sponsorship deal with Icelandic prosthetics manufacturer Ossur.
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Other Pistorius sponsors -- including prosthetics manufacturer Ossur, British Telecom, and Oakley, which makes sunglasses and other products -- expressed condolences and said they had no further comment at this time.
Jerome was able to change a potential career-ending injury into an opportunity with a redesign in how he ran in his prosthetics due to technical support from Ossur and Nike technology.
The more recent "Power Knee" is the world's first motorized, artificially intelligent prosthesis, Ossur says, helping wearers up steep slopes and stairs as well as reducing wear and tear on the remaining good leg.
Ossur, an Icelandic orthopedics company, which supplies South African athlete Oscar Pistorius with his carbon fiber running blades -- called the Flex Foot Cheetah -- is one of the leading innovators in hi-tech lower-limb devices.
Ossur, which manufactures the prosthetic running blades that athlete Oscar Pistorius has made famous, is one company which has benefitted from the crisis, now finding it easier to recruit skilled staff than during the reign of the banks.
Of course prosthetics can be designed that would give unfair advantage in competitive sport: attaching wheels, for example, but down the line Herr believes motorized bionic legs will be used in sport and should be allowed, once they are sufficiently advanced to replace the Ossur Cheetah carbon fiber blades that are now the standard choice in Paralympic running.
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