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A New Robotic Hand That Can "Feel"

Posted by kdawson on from the i-am-your-father dept.

Dyne09 writes "The BBC is running a video report about a group of Swiss and Italian scientists who have created the 'Smart Hand,' a robotic hand with forty sensors that 'connect directly to the brain.' Though fuzzy on the details, the report says the hand provides sensor feedback to a willing test subject, a 22-year-old man who lost his hand to cancer three years ago. How long until we have access to Star Wars-esque robotic limbs?"

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  1. One word by SpinyNorman · · Score: 4, Funny

    Telepresenceporn

    1. Re:One word by cjfs · · Score: 5, Funny

      And you thought buffer overflows were scary before...

    2. Re:One word by EdIII · · Score: 4, Funny

      You do realize that the vast majority of young impressionable girls you would be meeting on the Internet to have telepresenceporn sessions with, would in fact be, older perverted men.

      It's going to be dudes manipulating your junk. DUDES. Even if you go for the paid-for telepresenceporn of supposedly higher quality you will most likely still get dudes manipulating your junk. They will be outsourced foreign dudes touching your junk.

      One word - Dudes.

    3. Re:One word by Hal_Porter · · Score: 2, Funny

      It's all fine and dandy until one of the hydraulic lines breaks and someone needs a new set of genitals.

      Yeah, but your new genitals will have telepresence too.

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    4. Re:One word by Hal_Porter · · Score: 3, Funny

      I always thought this scenario was what really inspired "The Turing Test".

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    5. Re:One word by Admiral+Ag · · Score: 2, Funny

      Dude, Italian scientists helped design this. You can be sure it's grope ready.

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    6. Re:One word by amplt1337 · · Score: 2, Funny

      Nah, Turing would not have objected to "DUDES."

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  2. It's only a matter of time... by hyades1 · · Score: 3, Funny

    ...until that old joke about the robot hand that takes direction by microphone resurfaces. I believe it ends with the line, "Bionic hand, jerk it off." The subsequent scream is, in the grammatical sense at least, silent.

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  3. Can you feel me now? by LuxMaker · · Score: 2, Funny

    Good.

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  4. Re:What's left for the movies? by skine · · Score: 2, Funny

    What, you expected him to read the summary too?

  5. Interesting .. but.... by tkjtkj · · Score: 4, Funny

    Cancer below the elbow or below the knee is medically unheard of ...

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  6. Ummm.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Does anyone know why is this story tagged as porn?

  7. Italians give an hand, when you are in need... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    you see, Italians are always there to give an hand, when you are in need...
    then they looks strangely at you and say:

    "ya know, electronic hands broke sometime... you should pay for some protection"

    (guys, I am making jokes ok? (I am myself Italian!))

    Ciao
    ALEX