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Chinese Man Builds His Own Prosthetic Hands
New submitter macbeth66 writes "Almost 10 years ago, Sun Jifa lost his hands in an explosion. Unable to afford the prosthetic hands recommended by the hospital, he built his own. From the article: 'After eight years of tinkering, he says he finally developed a working model that allows him to grip, hold, and mimic other necessary movements via a system of pulleys and wires.'"
High five he had after finishing it!
He's a handyman.
He must have become progressively handy over the years, since he did it himself and no one gave him a hand. I wonder if we will hand off the project now? I guess if nothing else, he has become more handsome as a result of his efforts.
See communism works after all. You start with a need, put in a little hard work and entrepreneurialism and poof, new arms. Of wait that's capitalism. Disregard.
That is quite a feet.
Puns totally intended.
One day one of you sorry smartass pricks is going to face a challenge in life.
It is doubtful you will meet the challenge as well as this man did.
Think about that when the day comes, which I assure you it will.
But in the mean time I hope your smart mouth gets you an ass whipping,
and soon.
Why do you say that?
After all, Abraham Lincoln built the log cabin he was born in with his own hands.
I'm not a lawyer, but I play one on the Internet. Blog
He had help from M. C. Escher.
Information theory is life. The rest is just the KL divergence.
Obviously he took a leaf from the Computer Science book, specifically the chapter on compiler bootstrapping. How do you compile a compiler?
You build by hand a crude compiler and use it to compile a more complex one, use that to compile a more complex one, use that to compile a more complex one, etc
Obviously he started with hooks and worked his way up to full hands from there.
The hard part was getting past the stage where he had scissors.
Fancy using OTOH on this article, you insensitive clod!