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Advanced Prosthetic Hand Ties Shoes, Deals Cards
This hand, the bebionic3, actually shows it doing some of the stuff you’d think it might: tying shoes, dealing cards, picking up household items, etc.
Those tasks make it sound mundane, but it’s actually a pretty darn impressive hand. Not only can it squeeze and pinch, it can also do some less commonly used movements, like making the rock-on devil horns or spinning in a full circle. It even automatically grips an object when it detects that the object’s slipping.
(via Watch This Unbelievable Robot Hand Tie A Shoe | Popular Science)
This decade people, it’s gonna be a big one for biotech.
(via emergentfutures)
Beautiful Prosthetic Legs. Bespoke Innovations creates custom-made fairings that restore the leg contours that many prosthetic legs fail to do, by designing them look like something completely distinct, combining colors and patterns that dress up the leg. Super cool.
I love prosthetics. With BrainGate doing crazy stuff for human-computer interaction (i.e., wirelessly controlling connected devices with your fucking mind via a chip in your brain), Festo innovating in robotics, these guys at Bespoke Innovations making prosthetics beautiful…
Doesn’t seem long before these prosthetics augment your capacities, not just assist them. At that point, I’m so down to just trade in.
(via dragonwantsabite)
