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Title: Bionic hands for all!
Post by: Aira Hakaari on 18 May 2011, 13:14

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-13273348

The second video is awesome.

Title: Re: Bionic hands for all!
Post by: Mathra Hiede on 18 May 2011, 18:17

*Shakes fist at BBC* Damn you and your anal-retentive attention to IP locations! WE CANT ALL BE BRITISH  :bash:

Title: Re: Bionic hands for all!
Post by: Lydia Tishal on 18 May 2011, 18:47

Works fine for me over here in the States. . .

Title: Re: Bionic hands for all!
Post by: Saede Riordan on 18 May 2011, 18:50

Innnnnteresting.

Losing a limb would suck big time. Despite the neat looking robit hand.

Title: Re: Bionic hands for all!
Post by: Senn Typhos on 18 May 2011, 22:23

Now that's impressive shit right there. Certainly hope this technology continues to evolve and improve.

Title: Re: Bionic hands for all!
Post by: lallara zhuul on 18 May 2011, 23:29

There is plenty of similar work done with the soldiers that have been wounded in the Iraq war.

There is a few TED talks about it.

Title: Re: Bionic hands for all!
Post by: Myyona on 19 May 2011, 01:57

Why fiddle with an expensive mechanical hand when you can simply get the hand of a dead guy (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JgaMZT1Z2dw&feature=player_embedded)?

Being a biomedical engineer myself and knowing the world of mechanical prosthetics, I chuckled a bit when he mentioned that the hand had three degrees of freedom.

Title: Re: Bionic hands for all!
Post by: Vincent Pryce on 21 May 2011, 08:30

Future of the past becoming reality today!

(http://www.retroist.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/bionic-commando.jpg)