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Man Has Nokia Phone Embedded In False Limb

Posted by samzenpus on from the arm-phone dept.

judgecorp writes "A British man born with one arm has a Nokia phone dock embedded in his prosthetic limb. Apparently, Apple refused to have an iPhone suitably customized for the job. From the article: 'Mr Prideaux, of Wedmore, Somerset, said: "I think this is the first time this has ever been done in the world - and it is brilliant. I can now take calls and make texts just by using my one hand, while the phone sits inside my arm. The phone slots smoothly and securely within my limb and is easily removable, when required. I think this would help a lot of people with prosthetic arms - especially those who were not born with the disability. People who have had motorbike crashes and soldiers who have lost limbs - they could all benefit from this."'"

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  1. Of course... by fuzzyfuzzyfungus · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Apparently, Apple refused to have an iPhone suitably customized for the job."

    We all know Apple's position on people who hold it wrong...

    1. Re:Of course... by rachit · · Score: 3, Funny

      If it was an iPhone 4S, it would have given new meaning to the phrase "Talk to the hand".

    2. Re:Of course... by rossdee · · Score: 5, Funny

      And Apple products cost an arm and a leg, so this poor guy would be running out of limbs

    3. Re:Of course... by ozmanjusri · · Score: 3, Funny

      And let's face it, we've all wanted to insert the iPhone into a loud Siri user, even when they weren't amputees.

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      "I've got more toys than Teruhisa Kitahara."
  2. Motorbikes? by hairyfish · · Score: 3, Insightful

    People who've had motorbike crashes and soldiers? Is that what comes to people's minds when they think amputees?

    1. Re:Motorbikes? by couchslug · · Score: 3, Funny

      The fatasses who lost limbs to "diabesity" are less gratifying to picture.

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      "This post is an artistic work of fiction and falsehood. Only a fool would take anything posted here as fact."
    2. Re:Motorbikes? by demonlapin · · Score: 5, Informative

      Fat diabetics lose toes. Skinny emphysematous chain-smokers lose legs. Missing arms are almost always congenital or traumatic.

    3. Re:Motorbikes? by gomiam · · Score: 3, Funny

      ...personal experience

      Are you a previously fat, now skinny emphysematous chain-smoker diabetic who congenitally lacked an upper limb and just lost the other one traumatically? I feel for you, man.

  3. While I.. by monzie · · Score: 4, Funny

    ..Sit with a blackberry phone up my ass. (Posted from my BB playbook 'Bridged' with my BB )

  4. Headset by dissy · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Now all he has to do is put a bluetooth headset in the artificial hand.

    Imagine, speaker embedded in the tip of the thumb, and mic embedded in the tip of the pinky finger.
    That would look awesome!

  5. Power source by Dan+East · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Just think of the additional batteries you could fit in an area the size of a prosthetic limb. You could probably get upwards of a month of normal smartphone use without recharging.

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    Better known as 318230.
    1. Re:Power source by fuzzyfuzzyfungus · · Score: 4, Informative

      Apparently the roughly approximate arm of a roughly approximate man would run in the 3.5-6.5 kg range.

      If, in the spirit of wild-ass guessing and general laziness, we assume that your amputee-at-the-elbow loses half their arm mass and needs some, but not a whole lot, of headroom for purely structural replacement, you are still looking at 1.5-3ish kg of battery. A good Li-ion or Li-polymer will give you ~200Wh/kg, so 300-600Wh.

      By comparison, the Nokia BL-5K battery in the C7 is a 3.7v, 1.2Ah unit: ~4.5Wh. An arm-battery would be somewhere between 65 and 130 times the capacity...

  6. Re:Reading Comprehension FAIL by nomadic · · Score: 3, Informative

    Possible explanations: (a) the distinction you make is not an important one. Just the casing is not standard Apple issue, and could arguably called customized. (b) the submitter might be a fanboi and didn't want Apple to sound as much like jerks as they actually were. Refusing to customize an iphone is one thing, refusing to provide even a blank casing is a new level of jackassry.