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Formerly worth $12,000,000 in the 1970s; in 2007, the bionic couple's parts would be lucky to fetch $12.00 on eBay

OSI (Office of Scientific Intelligence- a division of the CIA) accountants announced today that the upcoming bionic woman could conceivably be built for free. With the decreasing price of computer equipment and electronics in general, the parts for a bionic person, at one time a prohibitive six million dollars, now costs less that three hundred dollars. During sale weekends at Fry's electronics, the OSI claims it can lower that price to zero, or free (excluding sales tax). The new motto for the bionic woman project will be, "better...stronger...faster...and cheaper."

"I remember we had to buy this big Betamax VCR to observe Jamie and Austin's training. That thing cost thousands. Now, we just hook up our Logitech webcam to our Dell and that's it. No tapes, no nothing," said retired OSI head of bionic projects, Oscar Goldman.

The government study cost seven million dollars.