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Star Wars-Style "Bionic Hand' Fitted To First Patients
schwit1 writes "Three Austrians have replaced injured hands with bionic ones that they can control using nerves and muscles transplanted into their arms from their legs. The three men are the first to undergo what doctors refer to as "bionic reconstruction," which includes a voluntary amputation, the transplantation of nerves and muscles and learning to use faint signals from them to command the hand. Previously, people with bionic hands have primarily controlled them with manual settings."
What is this âoeStar Warsâ you speak of? The Six Million Dollar Man perfected this technology in 1973.
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You might wanna practice on a hot dog first or you'll tear it right off.
Hot dog? You poor bastard.
I like seeing real progress in technology. Although, I think the idea of giving an artificial limb a skin color just adds to the uncanny valley. If I were to ever need such an implement, I would ask for a version that would look stylish, however not colored like a hand. It doesn't really fool anyone, and it actually would make someone stare more, vs. a Sliver or Black model. As their brain will not try to figure out why this dead hand is moving.
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They used "manual" settings? Handy!
The Six Million Dollar Man predates StarWars and bionics, m'kay.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
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This technology has been available for a long long time... albeit in a galaxy far far away
The technology's great - something that I feel was inevitable, yet still a tremendous breakthrough.
That being said, does no one proofread anymore?
my, your, his/her/its, our, your, their
I'm, you're, he's/she's/it's, we're, you're, they're
Well, as well as one can carry on when they're more machine now than man, twisted and evil.
The test subjects had injured hands which probably did not need to be amputated but were voluntarily given up and replaced by "uninjured" bionic hands.
3D PRINTED? Otherwise, who cares!
We've been following the development of this sort of technology here on Slashdot for a long time for sure. In fact, I find this area of research and development to be among the most fascinating of our time and am course always glad to see people getting help from them. However, I won't be truly impressed until someone can peel the Orange away with the bionic hand using nothing more then the same part of our brain that we would use to control that function in the first place. Perhaps the next time a story like this gets posted.
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that I would totally give up a limb if it meant I could have a rad robo arm?
I need my eyes checked.
"Previously, people with bionic hands have primarily controlled them with manual ..."
OK, got that, we can't have 'manual' stuff with hands.
Interchangeable devices...Power drill, Sander, Dildo for the Ladies!
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Voluntary amputation - what?!
I'm wondering. If the nerve transplant alllows use of the bionic hand, why wouldn't it allow use of the nerve damaged hand?
It probably would be safer with a fake hand as feeling probably would remain gone so burns and other damaging injutirs could go undetected wherd its not so mucb a health concern with tbe bionic hand. I dunno, maybe there is something moe technical or maybe it a "because i can" thing.
Everything that's happening now is happening now?
Removing a useless limb to replace it with a working mechanical facsimile? Seems reasonable to me.
As we understand more and more about the brain, that reality creeps ever-closer. I wouldn't put it past someone to be already working on it.
Yep, if I had a hand like that, I'd do that EVERY time I meet new people. Especially kids.
I'm curious to see how often they have random people tell them they're their father, or ask them if they can lend a hand. It might not be that many, if they can also crush bone with their bionic hands.
I'm trying to teach myself to set people on fire with my mind... Is it hot in here?
Yeah, the bionic hand is great and all, but what in the actual fuck does it have to do with Star Wars? Besides the one throwaway sentence at the start of the article, nothing. Fluffy bullshit is bullshit. Here's a better link (to a PDF) from The Lancet:
http://press.thelancet.com/bio...
No more page views for clickbaiting whores from Telegraph, please.
Expensive this new prosthetic will be.
Is that the foot long?
And then some.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
That depends on your frame of reference.
Well, I might have a way, but it only works on a semi spherical planet in a vacuum.
I'd want a detachable one, if only for the "can you give me a hand" jokes.
Well, I might have a way, but it only works on a semi spherical planet in a vacuum.
Everything that's happening now is happening now?
Spaceballs for the win! :)
I have a relative that could use something like this, I hope it becomes affordable and readable for them soon.
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