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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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Hot dog? You poor bastard.
I'd want the model with a transparent skin and casing, so everyone can admire the intricate mechanisms inside.
Better yet, have one with fake skin so you can cut it off and do the "reveal", Terminator style.
You could also fill it with blue LEDs and cold cathode light tubes so that...
Um...
So that the hand would go faster, or something. I'm pretty sure that's the reason for those things.
Dumbass. It's RED that makes things go faster. Jeez, the technical knowledge on Slashdot is really going downhill these days...
Interchangeable devices...Power drill, Sander, Dildo for the Ladies!
When Fascism comes to America, it will call itself Anti-Fascism, and tell you to give up your guns.
Removing a useless limb to replace it with a working mechanical facsimile? Seems reasonable to me.
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.
I take it you haven't actually ever seen a good prosthetic limb, then... ...or you have, but didn't know it.
As the saying goes, you can fool all of the people some of the time, and that's what prosthetic devices are designed to do. The fellow diner lifting his glass to drink, or the empty hand of a pedestrian walking down the street, or the passenger on the opposite seat on a bus... How often do you actually look at their hands long enough to consider how perfectly their skin color matches your expectations? Do you interact enough with them to notice how their skin folds?
Common situations like that are where a more obvious skin color brings even more staring, questions, prejudice, and pity. Current skin doesn't work well enough to fool someone who's looking, but for most common occurrences, it's close enough to be ignored, and that's the desired reaction. Silver or black will have every child (and many adults) pointing and staring, which is usually not so desired.
You do not have a moral or legal right to do absolutely anything you want.
Obviously the limbs couldn't be fitted with prosthetics until they had stopped moving.
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.