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Bionic Hand Wired To Nerves Can "Feel" When Touched

Posted by samzenpus on from the all-the-better-to-feel-you-with dept.

An anonymous reader writes in with a breakthrough in prosthetics. "The first bionic hand that allows an amputee to feel what they are touching will be transplanted later this year in a pioneering operation that could introduce a new generation of artificial limbs with sensory perception. The patient is an unnamed man in his 20s living in Rome who lost the lower part of his arm following an accident, said Silvestro Micera of the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne in Switzerland. The wiring of his new bionic hand will be connected to the patient’s nervous system with the hope that the man will be able to control the movements of the hand as well as receiving touch signals from the hand’s skin sensors."

6 of 42 comments (clear)

  1. Yay, he can... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Masturbate again...

  2. Old News by maroberts · · Score: 3, Funny

    Steve Austin did all this years ago

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    1. Re:Old News by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      Stone Cold never ceases to amaze.

  3. Obligitory XKCD by Bob+the+Super+Hamste · · Score: 4, Funny

    Obligitory XKCD. But this does start to open up the world of such things.

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  4. Luke by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    I am your father

  5. This guy's luck sucks by Jmc23 · · Score: 3, Funny

    No hand AND no name?

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