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Clever Artificial Hand Developed

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the sound-of-one-hand-closing dept.

AccUser writes "The BBC is reporting that scientists have developed an ultra-light limb that they claim can mimic the movement in a real hand better than any currently available. Researcher Dr Paul Chappell, a medical physicist who worked on the device, said, 'With this hand you can clutch objects such as a ball, you can move the thumb out to one side and grip objects with the index finger in the way you do when opening a lock with a key, and you can wrap your fingers around an object in what we call the power grip - like the one you use when you hold a hammer or a microphone.'"

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  1. Better pic by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Image here

  2. In other news... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Dr Paul is now Dr Pauline after some over-enthusiastic power grip testing...

  3. Finally by dxprog · · Score: 5, Funny

    For those of you who have had their hands severed by their father, relief has come!

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  4. Re:Oh c'mon by mattjb0010 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Oh c'mon You're making the jokes too easy for us!

    You have to hand it to the submitter ;P

  5. Re:The hand is not the optimal holding shape by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny
    A blob-like form consisting of millions of nanobots working together, sometimes loosely, sometimes in a tight lattice, would make much more sense as it could take on any form and be solid or "liquid" at any given time.

    Wouldn't it be better to just give the patients mutant psychokinetic powers so they can levitate objects wherever they want? Oh I'm sorry, were you talking about things which can *actually* be achieved in the forseeable future?

  6. Re:The hand is not the optimal holding shape by ozmanjusri · · Score: 5, Funny

    ... and what about some sense of fashion for hearing aids?

    You could make some with white ear buds, connect them to a white amplifier box with a circle on the front, and you'd be as flash as a rat with a gold tooth...

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  7. the power grip by gomel · · Score: 5, Funny

    'The power grip will be mostly used to crush human sculls.' Dr Paul Chappell added.

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