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Star Wars-Style "Bionic Hand' Fitted To First Patients

Posted by samzenpus on from the that's-quite-a-grip dept.

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."

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  1. Re:1973... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    No. You're thinking they pulled one end of the cat5 out and plugged it in somewhere else, while leaving the other end in place. That's not the case here; they pulled both ends of the patch cable out, and used it to replace a faulty one elsewhere, if we must stick with the structured cabling analogy.