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Tag Archives: prosthetic
Becoming Cybernetic: 3D Custom-Fit Knee Implants from ConforMIS
Like the treads on car tires, the all important cartilage within our knees is slowly wearing down. By the age [...]
Posted in Cyborg, Longevity And Health, Video Central
Tagged 3D, implant, knee, prosthetic
2 Comments
Touch Bionics Gives an 18-Year-Old Amputee His Hand Back (Video)
The Today Show recently ran a feature on an 18-year-old who was recently outfitted with ProDigits, the partial hand prosthesis [...]
Posted in Cyborg, Longevity And Health
Tagged michael waldron, ProDigits, prosthetic, today show, Touch Bionics
4 Comments
How Much is the Newest Advanced Artificial Hand? $11,000 USD (video)
RSLSteeper, creator of the Bebionic artificial hand, has just announced that the hand will be offered at a price of [...]
Posted in Cyborg
Tagged amputee, artificial hand, BeBionic, myo-electric, myoelectric, prostheses, Prosthesis, prosthetic, prosthetic limbs, RSLSteeper, Touch Bionics
20 Comments
Bionic Limbs With Artificial Intelligence
They won’t give you superhuman strength, and they definitely don’t cost six million dollars, but the artificial limbs from Ossur [...]
Posted in AI, Cyborg, Longevity And Health
Tagged ai, AI, amputee, artificial limb, bionic limb, foot, knee, Ossur, power, Proprio, prosthetic, Rheo
10 Comments
Man Receives First US Double Hand Transplant
Ten years ago, Jeff Kepner lost both his hands and feet to a bacterial infection. Today, he is recovering from [...]
Posted in Longevity And Health
Tagged amputee, hand transplant, prosthetic, stem cell, Stem Cells, transplant
5 Comments
Braingate Frees Trapped Minds
It is a horrifying concept: being buried alive. Even more terrible is the prospect of living trapped in our own [...]
Posted in AI, Cyborg, Longevity And Health
Tagged body 2.0, implant, locked-in syndrome, mind reading, neurotechnology, prosthetic
8 Comments
i-LIMB Revolutionizes the Commercial Prosthetic
Think you can spot an amputee? Think again. Meet the i-LIMB, the first commercially available prosthetic hand with five individually [...]
A “Manhattan Project” for the Next Generation of Bionic Arms
Related to the IEEE special report on prosthetic arms is a fascinating article on prosthetic limbs that can take their [...]
Posted in Cyborg, Robots
Tagged arm, computer brain interface, limbs, prosthetic, prosthetic arm
1 Comment
IEEE Spectrum Special Report on Prosthetic Arms
In Feb 2008 IEEE Spectrum released a fantastic special report on some of the latest work being done on prosthetic [...]
Posted in Cyborg, Longevity And Health, Robots
Tagged arm, cyborg, darpa, prosthetic, prosthetic arm
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