This article puts quite a different spin on it,
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/technology/news/article.cfm?c_id=5&objectid=10811266
From the article:
"He said he had contacted the agents to offer to take clones of the items to the United States Embassy only to find they had already sent the clones to the US."
Sounds like the NZ cops were going to give it to the FBI but the FBI wasn't waiting from permission anyway.
Deeply integrated is not something that is an issue anything* in my 1963 series 2 Land Rover.
*Anything includes doors, bonnet, walls and engine (onto third in its lifetime).
I wonder if it would be possible to co-opt the tech into what are the fleshy pads of the fingers and palms in a human hand, kind of a mini version of the one described. Then you would be able to use it to increase grip but maintain the familiar hand structure; also might be able to use the measurement of the degree of vacuum to detect when to stop exerting the closing force of the 'fingers'. Would be able to help with the 'can crush as steel girder but can't pick up an egg' issue.
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This article puts quite a different spin on it, http://www.nzherald.co.nz/technology/news/article.cfm?c_id=5&objectid=10811266 From the article: "He said he had contacted the agents to offer to take clones of the items to the United States Embassy only to find they had already sent the clones to the US." Sounds like the NZ cops were going to give it to the FBI but the FBI wasn't waiting from permission anyway.
Deeply integrated is not something that is an issue anything* in my 1963 series 2 Land Rover. *Anything includes doors, bonnet, walls and engine (onto third in its lifetime).
I wonder if it would be possible to co-opt the tech into what are the fleshy pads of the fingers and palms in a human hand, kind of a mini version of the one described. Then you would be able to use it to increase grip but maintain the familiar hand structure; also might be able to use the measurement of the degree of vacuum to detect when to stop exerting the closing force of the 'fingers'. Would be able to help with the 'can crush as steel girder but can't pick up an egg' issue.