Prosthetic hand gives amputee feeling again

Imagine losing an arm. You pick up your smartphone to read this and without even thinking about the thousands of advancements your phone has inevitably made to enable you to do that, the Doctor walks into the room and explains your choices.

Hook or hand?

Those are your choices, do you want a fake non-movable plastic hand, or would you prefer the hook? At that point you are probably wondering why they are now making smartphone watches, but you are stuck getting [almost] the same technology that was used during the civil war.

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February 19, 2014 | Categories: Health and Medicine | Tags: amputee, design, future, health, medicine, prosthetic, science | 1 Comment