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Robotic Prostheses For Human Faces

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the make-them-wireless-for-fun-and-amusement dept.

holy_calamity writes "New Scientist reports on a patent application that suggests implanting polymer muscles beneath the skin of people suffering paralysis of the face to give them control of their features. The technique has already been used successfully to reanimate the eyelids of human cadavers. Movement could be returned to other facial features and even paralyzed limbs in the same way, the surgeons at University of California Davis say. The full patent application is also available on the WIPO site."

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  1. Way cool by flaming+error · · Score: 5, Funny

    > The technique has already been used successfully to reanimate the eyelids of human cadavers.

    That'll make such a great party trick.

    1. Re:Way cool by mc1138 · · Score: 2, Funny

      Not as cool as my zombie finger in a box!

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    2. Re:Way cool by shawnap · · Score: 3, Funny

      That'll make such a great party trick.

      The real trick will be getting the host to let you into the party with a corpse slung over your shoulder.

    3. Re:Way cool by Bozzio · · Score: 2, Funny

      That'll make such a great party trick.

      I was thinking more along the lines of it being the greatest coroner/mortician prank EVER!

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    4. Re:Way cool by flyingsquid · · Score: 4, Funny
      So you can even give a dead person facial expressions? This technology seems to have no limits in it applications. I mean, I'll bet you could even get Keanu Reeves to display emotions.

      OK, let me correct that statement: this technology seems to have almost no limits in its applications.

    5. Re:Way cool by Kell+Bengal · · Score: 3, Funny

      You've obviously never been to one of my parties.

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  2. Blinking dead people! by TinBromide · · Score: 2, Funny

    HOLY BLINKING DEADMAN!!!

    I for one welcome our blinking undead overlords.

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  3. Robotic Prostheses For Human Feces by Roblimo · · Score: 3, Funny

    This is the advance *I'm* waiting for...

    1. Re: Robotic Prostheses For Human Feces by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      Only when they are shit-faced.

  4. Potential here! by Trillan · · Score: 5, Funny

    Before you know it, being dead won't be nearly the handicap it is now.

    What's that? I missed the point?

  5. Queue the They Might Be Giants by kwabbles · · Score: 2, Funny

    If I were a carpenter I'd
    Hammer on my piglet, I'd
    Collect the seven dollars and I'd
    Buy a big prosthetic forehead
    And wear it on my real head

    Everybody wants prosthetic
    Foreheads on their real heads
    Everybody wants prosthetic
    Foreheads on their real heads

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  6. Rhymes with Prostheses by aardwolf64 · · Score: 1, Funny

    You can imagine my relief (pun intended) when I realized the title did not read:
    Robotic Prostheses For Human Feces

  7. Prosthetic foreheads by Nerdposeur · · Score: 1, Funny

    This is no surprise. After all, everybody wants prosthetic foreheads on their real heads.

  8. I'm rewriting my will! by Locke2005 · · Score: 2, Funny

    This is going to make my open-casket funeral so much more interesting!

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