Dean Kamen's Artificial "Luke" Arm - Segway inventor reinvents the prosthetic arm: "I've been able to do stuff with this that I haven't, seriously haven't, done in 26 years... uh, pick up a banana, peel a banana and eat it without it squishening... I can't wait to get one of these in a real environment, a home environment, and actually my wife can't either. She's going, oh yeah, I got lots of stuff for you to do."
posted by kliuless
on Feb 19, 2008 -
59 comments
First Brain-Powered Bionic Prosthesis Jesse Sullivan is the
first man (link to press release) to recieve a ground breaking new bionic arm (
PDF fact sheet) that is controlled by his mind and a 64-bit microprocessor. His new arm, that even allows him to "feel" objects, is the result of a radical surgical process called nerve-transfer surgery that took nerves going to his arms and rerouted them to his chest.
Want to see it in action?
1,
2,
3 (embedded QT links) and some
images of Jesse in action.
Previous MeFi bionic threads.
posted by fenriq
on Sep 14, 2005 -
40 comments
