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Are we coming upon the era of bionic limbs? Another company has created a robotic hand that can be controlled by the wearer's thoughts and restores tactile sensation — and the subject claims it feels almost like a real hand. More »
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Afraid upgrading your limbs will mean living with metal appendages, or falling into the uncanny valley of flesh-colored plastic? Fear not, one designer has a stylish new vision for prosthetics, one inspired by 1950s furniture and Steve McQueen. More »
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As badass artificial limbs go, it probably doesn't get any better than Rose McGowan's machine gun leg from Planet Terror. But that's probably pretty hard to walk on, so a team from the mechanical engineering department at the Georgia Institute of Technology would suggest you use their artificial bone instead. Professor Andrés García and his collaborators recently managed to create a synthetic bone substitute that mimics the strength and complexity of natural bone — and their material has already carried its weight inside a living organism for several weeks. More »
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Apparently the new i-limb system from Touch Bionics may need to be "scaled back" to be used by humans. The system is a robotic hand-arm combination for people missing all or part of their arms. One of its inventors admitted, "The i-Limb system is better than a human arm. It is faster and can lift heavier weights than a human arm . . . A patient would have the potential to hurt themselves or other people with it, as it is actually better than a human arm. It could do damage." Oh hai, sign me up! [Medgadget] More »
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