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Author Topic: Bionic hands for all!  (Read 1824 times)

Aira Hakaari

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Bionic hands for all!
« on: 18 May 2011, 13:14 »
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Mathra Hiede

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Re: Bionic hands for all!
« Reply #1 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:
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Lydia Tishal

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Re: Bionic hands for all!
« Reply #2 on: 18 May 2011, 18:47 »
Works fine for me over here in the States. . .
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Saede Riordan

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Re: Bionic hands for all!
« Reply #3 on: 18 May 2011, 18:50 »
Innnnnteresting.

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

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Re: Bionic hands for all!
« Reply #4 on: 18 May 2011, 22:23 »
Now that's impressive shit right there. Certainly hope this technology continues to evolve and improve.
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lallara zhuul

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Re: Bionic hands for all!
« Reply #5 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.
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Myyona

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Re: Bionic hands for all!
« Reply #6 on: 19 May 2011, 01:57 »
Why fiddle with an expensive mechanical hand when you can simply get the hand of a dead guy?

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.
« Last Edit: 19 May 2011, 02:02 by Myyona »
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Re: Bionic hands for all!
« Reply #7 on: 21 May 2011, 08:30 »
Future of the past becoming reality today!

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