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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. The doctors gave him drugs to help his body accept by SensitiveMale · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    it, but his cock rejected it.

  2. What did the five fingers on the artificial hand.. by Banishedwun · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    What did the five fingers on the artificial hand say to the face? SLAP!