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A new prosthetic hand uses individually movable fingers to hold a credit card, use a keyboard and lift a heavy bag. Researchers bill it as the world's first commercially available prosthetic hand that can move each finger separately. The i-LIMB, made by the Scottish company Touch Bionics, is being tested at the Orthopedic University Hospital in Heidelberg, Germany. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago tags prosthetic hand nimble type movable fingers |
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A mechanical prosthetic finger so effective it provides articulation as fast and flexible as the real thing. picked by osiris12 2 years ago 12 comments edit related share plime.com |
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An international team led by the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Md., has developed a prototype of the first fully integrated prosthetic arm that can be controlled naturally, provide sensory feedback and allows for eight degrees of freedom—a level of control far beyond the current state of the art for prosthetic limbs. picked by AutumnLotus 3 years ago 0 comments edit related share technology |
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Last seen attached to my motorbike. If found please call (555)DUM-MPUT. (get it?) picked by gnikgnok 2 years ago 1 comments edit related share plime.com |
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"For a hand, it takes quite some time to get full movement," said spokeswoman Amy Dugas Rose. "He has some movement, which is a good sign." picked by kakana 8 months ago 0 comments edit related share science |
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Ohhhh, so that's what they mean! picked by gnikgnok 3 years ago 1 comments edit related share plime.com |
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Cool collection of artwork made by hand for hands....Gives new meaning to an amazing hand job. picked by deepcleanfun 2 years ago 2 comments edit related share plime.com |
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The thumb and fingers can move and grip just like a human hand and are controlled by the patient's mind and muscles. picked by Bornbad 2 years ago 1 comments edit related share technology |
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Iraq war veteran Sgt. Juan Arredondo can grasp tennis balls and door knobs with his left hand again, now that he's been outfitted with a bionic hand that has flexible fingers. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago 7 comments edit related share technology |
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After taking the $17,000 prosthetic leg out for a "test drive" in 2005, the man never returned to pay. He was picked up on drug charges and the police have now confiscated the stolen leg. picked by suebe 8 months ago 2 comments edit related share weird |
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I was on the internet, and suddenly felt a numbness in my right hand. The arrow on the screen stopped moving," says Jiang Ming. 16 comments edit related share plime.com"Then I found that my right hand was on the mouse pad, and blood was shooting out." picked by misswinkle 2 years ago |
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Police quickly swarmed the hospital and disarmed the leg... picked by BrownTrout 3 years ago 3 comments edit related share weird |
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Papua New Guinea police have arrested a woman attempting to carry a dead baby in her hand luggage on an internal flight. picked by AutumnLotus 11 months ago 2 comments edit related share plime.com |
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One Cold Hand is for the city of Pittsburgh, and has been created to help the residents there through a rough and tragic time in their life: The Loss of A Glove. 3 comments edit related share plime.comHere you can submit found gloves, submit Lost alerts. Help reunite gloves with their loved ones. Now we need a One Cold Foot site. picked by muppetmaker 1 year ago |
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A 10-year-old Mexican boy dreaded returning to school after Christmas break so much that he glued his hand to his bed. picked by muppet 2 years ago 6 comments edit related share plime.com |
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Raising her trunk, three-legged Mosha salutes her new prosthetic limb, which means she can get back on the jungle trail. 3 comments edit related share plime.comThe young Asian elephant lost her right front leg after stepping on a landmine aged only seven months old. picked by AutumnLotus 9 months ago |
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Anybody remember when George H W Bush tried to signal ‘peace’ during a visit to Australia in the 90s by giving a huge crowd the time-honoured two-fingered salute? Though he didn’t know it at the time, he was actually telling the whole crowd to go screw themselves. picked by misswinkle 2 years ago 6 comments edit related share plime.com |
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It seems, in many peoples' sex lives, that the hand job is to a CD Walkman what the blow job is to an iPod. It was great when you were in junior high, but then something new came around and you sort of forgot about it. picked by suebe 5 months ago 13 comments edit related share sex |
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A 23-year-old Nepali man cut off his right hand after morning prayers and offered it to Kali, the Hindu goddess of power. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago 0 comments edit related share plime.com |
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Judy Stanley embarked on a drastic change of lifestyle and lost eight stones in 12 months after switching to a diet of fresh fruit, vegetables and red meat. 0 comments edit related share plime.comBut her rapid weight loss meant she needed a new prosthetic limb almost every month as her remaining leg shrunk in size. picked by bingo 6 months ago |
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A pygmy hippo which started turning up his snout at food has been given a helping hand to start eating again. But the little animal was lured back to his trough under the watchful eye of Gloria, a hand puppet based on the star character in DreamWorks children's film Madagascar. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago 2 comments edit related share plime.com |