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Man chooses "elective amputation" for bionic hand, after motorcycle accident
A 26-year-old man in Austria who lost the use of his right hand in a motorcycle accident ten years ago has decided to undergo "elective amputation," after which he will be fitted with a bionic hand...
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MD used "silicone fingers" to trick biometric time clock on colleagues' behalf
Brazilian doctor Thaune Nunes Ferreira, 29, was arrested for fraud for allegedly covering up her colleagues' absence from work by using prosthetic fingers to sign them in on a biometric time clock at...
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Open source prosthetics Google+ hangout this Friday with Adafruit and Makerbot
Our friends at Adafruit are hosting a month-long program on Google+ "aimed at crowdsourcing the manufacturing and delivery of the Robohand prosthetic to people in need." The next hangout is this...
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The Bionic Men of World War I
Medical historian Thomas Schlich wrote a fascinating essay for CNN about the history of prosthetic body parts and the "Bionic Men of World War I." From his article: In all nations involved in the war...
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1950s "bionic" arm
When I was young in the 1970s, I was blown away by photos of the 1950s battery-powered "bionic" arm invented by IBM engineer SW Alderson. The technology is now more than 60 years old and it still...
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Giant red lips turn you into a cartoon character
French designer Sascha Nordmeyer has commercialized her lip prosthesis art project and has made HyperLip available to selfie aficionados worldwide.
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Fury Road cosplay: wheelchair and amputated arm edition
When Fury Road came out, Laura Vaughn made an iconic post about how her left-arm transradial amputation gave her the potential to be the world's greatest Imperator Furiosa cosplayer -- and now she's...
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Tattoo artist with missing arm wears tattoo machine prosthesis
Lyon, France-based tattoo artist JC Sheitan Tenet has no right arm. In place of his right hand, he wears custom tattoo machine prostheses he developed with biomechanical sculptor Jean-Louis Gonzal....
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Are you ready for robots skinned with sensitive hairs?
Biomimicry in robotics has led to robots that can climb, fly, and swim better. Now researchers have developed hair-like filaments for robots that allow them to have more fine-grained senses of touch,...
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Obama's robot fist-bump photo has a great back story
One of Obama's last posts while in office showed him fist-bumping a robotic arm. It's actually a prosthetic robotic arm belonging to Nathan Copeland, who can control it with his mind and sense touch...
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Mind-controlled prosthetic arm that snaps on to the bone
On Friday, surgeons installed a "click-on robotic arm" on a patient in the Netherlands. The wearer controls the robot arm by thought alone. Myoelectric sensors in a bracelet worn on the upper arm...
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Man chooses "elective amputation" for bionic hand, after motorcycle accident
A 26-year-old man in Austria who lost the use of his right hand in a motorcycle accident ten years ago has decided to undergo "elective amputation," after which he will be fitted with a bionic hand...
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How prosthetic eyes are made
"If only you could see what I've seen with your eyes." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBaXd7dz404
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This prosthetic thumb shows you what it's like to have two thumbs on one hand
London product designer Dani Clode has created a prosthetic thumb, not to replace a missing digit, but simply to offer people an extra thumb, and therefore add to the human experience. She calls it...
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Bionic prosthetic Nerf gun for man without an arm
Maker collective Hackerloop modified a Nerf gun into a bionic prosthetic for their friend Nicolas Huchet. He fires the gun via EMG (electromyography) sensors that detect when he tenses his forearm...
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These prosthetic fingers, toes and ears are so real you can't tell they're fake
Dianceht is a company in Mexico that makes such realistic prosthetic body parts, it's almost impossible to tell they're not the real thing. Started in 2005, Dianceht makes custom-made silicon-based...
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Amputee drummer with bionic playing arm launches Kickstarter
Drummer Jason Barnes, who only has one arm, has been collaborating with engineer Gil Weinberg of Georgia Tech's Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Machines to develop a cyborg arm that enables...
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Watch this guy demonstrate his state-of-the-art prosthetic fingers
Naked Prosthetics creates custom-fitted hand and finger prostheses that allow an impressive range of fine motor skills to be done by the wearer, like holding and striking a match or unscrewing a tiny...
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Watch this new and improved LEGO prosthetic arm in action
David Aguilar Amphoux (aka Hand Solo) just built an upgrade to his original LEGO prosthetic arm. Very ingenious! (more…)
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Watch this interesting overview of the current state of human bionics
Beyond Bionics traces several important developments in the field of bionics (more…)
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