<![CDATA[A Breakthrough That Lets You Grow Extra Fingers - io9 Comments]]> <![CDATA[A Breakthrough That Lets You Grow Extra Fingers - io9 Comments]]> <![CDATA[A Breakthrough That Lets You Grow Extra Fingers]]> As long as they don't use lizard DNA, sounds good to me.

sumocat

]]> <![CDATA[A Breakthrough That Lets You Grow Extra Fingers]]> Suddenly reminded of the SNL commercial for Handi-Off: [snltranscripts.jt.org]

ackthbbft

]]> <![CDATA[A Breakthrough That Lets You Grow Extra Fingers]]> @Rhainor: Ok, changing the cuticle I understand, but adding ligaments? What would those be for, retractable claws? We wouldn't [i]have[/i] to have retractable claws.

Bob_of_Mars

]]> <![CDATA[A Breakthrough That Lets You Grow Extra Fingers]]> What man with a receding hairline wouldn't spend the money on a implanted scalp fingers?

BadUncle

]]> <![CDATA[A Breakthrough That Lets You Grow Extra Fingers]]> @Klebert: We'll all just do it like the Brits do.

Where there is a will...

92BuickLeSabre

]]> <![CDATA[A Breakthrough That Lets You Grow Extra Fingers]]> Soon, the Morality Police will require everyone to have six fingers, so noboby will be able to give anyone 'the finger'.

Actually, the digit regrowth thing sounds dang useful.
-Kle.

Klebert L. Hall

]]> <![CDATA[A Breakthrough That Lets You Grow Extra Fingers]]> @VoxExMachina:

Exactly!

Seth L

]]> <![CDATA[A Breakthrough That Lets You Grow Extra Fingers]]> And just when I was starting to get good at mumbletypeg.

bryantpaul

]]> <![CDATA[A Breakthrough That Lets You Grow Extra Fingers]]> So, I was having a drunken Vegas weekend with a friend and some of his friends. And one of the friends-of-a-friend worked in pediatrics and I started grilling him about what happens if you don't lop off the extra appendages.

Because I figured that they were saving the kids from getting teased... at the expense of preventing the world from having a six-fingered person with mad crazy guitar or piano skills. I was disappointed to find that they aren't going to be particularly useful if they were allowed to stay.

cmowire

]]> <![CDATA[A Breakthrough That Lets You Grow Extra Fingers]]> Does anyone remember that F&SF story (eventually turned into a short movie?) about a guy who has a single, multi-jointed finger growing out of his bathroom sink?

Spooky and unpleasant!

VoxExMachina

]]> <![CDATA[A Breakthrough That Lets You Grow Extra Fingers]]> Fingers, schmingers. I want an extra set of arms! Many's the time I've thought "I could really use an extra hand right now".

jabrwok

]]> <![CDATA[A Breakthrough That Lets You Grow Extra Fingers]]> please don't joke about punks growing fingers out of their foreheads - have you seen the Atlas of Creation? They claim that evolution can't be real, because if it was, we'd have mutations like that all the time. (Insert Charlie Brown Face) AUGHHH.

wilmawonker

]]> <![CDATA[A Breakthrough That Lets You Grow Extra Fingers]]> @Byronotron: Hey, I liked the Duke controller -- better than the Controller S, in fact.

@Bob_of_Mars: It would involve, at the very least, altering the cuticle of the nail to produce a harder keratin in a layered, pointed shape; and adding extra ligaments to the finger.

Rhainor

]]> <![CDATA[A Breakthrough That Lets You Grow Extra Fingers]]> I would definitely want another thumb opposite my normal one, as well as another finger. I'm holding out for when they can make one of my fingers a tentacle (preferably the middle one).
as far as claws go, wouldn't modifying the fingernails be the best source for those?
Other body-mods I want: The ability to grow horns if I wanted, and octopus-like color/texture changing skin. I'm still waiting, you 'scientists'.

Bob_of_Mars

]]> <![CDATA[A Breakthrough That Lets You Grow Extra Fingers]]> Okay, so how does this NOT go horribly awry? I mean it's all well and good at first, you can wear more rings, you can diddle your gf (or yourself) a little faster, and you can actually use the original xbox controller, but what happens when they just DON'T STOP GROWING?

Finger Man? Centipede man? Horribly disfigured oh-jesus-christ-in-heaven-that-man-has-fingers-growing-out-of-his-fucking-face Man?

Byronotron

]]> <![CDATA[A Breakthrough That Lets You Grow Extra Fingers]]> Hot damn! Now I can play Through the Fire and the Flames on expert in Guitar Hero 3!

Ghede

]]> <![CDATA[A Breakthrough That Lets You Grow Extra Fingers]]> Extra Fingers! The only thing I want more than extra fingers is that mod from Ghost in the Shell where your fingers split into like twenty different digits and you type on a computer extra fast.

Still, extra fingers is definitely a step in the right direction.

VoxExMachina

]]> <![CDATA[A Breakthrough That Lets You Grow Extra Fingers]]> @B: My name is Wolfgang Paoli, and I just finished my paper on the hexagonal state of quantum numbers--call Dan Brown!

MaxTwice

]]> <![CDATA[A Breakthrough That Lets You Grow Extra Fingers]]> My name is Neigo Montoya. You killed my father, prepare to die.

B

]]> <![CDATA[A Breakthrough That Lets You Grow Extra Fingers]]> @92BuickLeSabre: Opposed opposable thumbs would be sweet...but I'd rather have those wings and claws Annalee mentioned.

Rhainor

]]> <![CDATA[A Breakthrough That Lets You Grow Extra Fingers]]> So this could produce people who are literally all thumbs?

Another thumb might be useful -- and back in my Emacs days, another pinky.

Opposable big toes, like apes have, would be nice.

But there's always the risk of creating someone who'd kill Inigo Montoya's dad.

Evil Tortie's Mom

]]> <![CDATA[A Breakthrough That Lets You Grow Extra Fingers]]> @extracrispy: I say Transmetropolitan is more accurate.

aspiringexpatriate

]]> <![CDATA[A Breakthrough That Lets You Grow Extra Fingers]]> Extra fingers and toes are funky, you don't always notice them right away but you just get a feeling that something is off with the person. I've seen maybe 6-7 people since I've been doing Xray with extra digits and from what I hear they can really hurt sometimes.

but let me know when geneticist can add to more upper appendages. Genetically grown wings are far more appealing then an extra finger to jam during basketball or slam in a door.

Final

]]> <![CDATA[A Breakthrough That Lets You Grow Extra Fingers]]> dats fer me.

I dun shoot off cuple of toes when I was shootin at a opossum

my aunt told me not be shootin critters when they so close but I never listened.

All I got to do now to remeber not to shoot at stuff that's too close is just look at the big hole in my boot.

se7a7n7

]]> <![CDATA[A Breakthrough That Lets You Grow Extra Fingers]]> Normally I'm with you Annalee, but the best part of the story is not the Sonic the Hedgehog reference. It's absolutely the story itself - the fact that we could grow extra fingers.

Personally, I want a second opposable thumb, opposite my current thumb.

92BuickLeSabre

]]> <![CDATA[A Breakthrough That Lets You Grow Extra Fingers]]> I've said it before, and I'll say it again: Gattaca was the most prescient science fiction movie of the last 20 years. Case in point.

extracrispy

]]> <![CDATA[A Breakthrough That Lets You Grow Extra Fingers]]> Bionic eyes on Gizmodo, neurogenisis yesterday, and now this. It's a good time to want to be a better human.

Sven.T.Sexgore

]]> <![CDATA[A Breakthrough That Lets You Grow Extra Fingers]]> You'd think they would've called it Knuckles.

PriorMarcus

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