Amputee Successfully Feels Prosthetic Grip Strength Via Arm Electrodes

[daedalus]

A rather uplifting paper about prosthetic limbs and their growing ability to give sensory feedback. It speaks about several technological approaches and gives more details about one of them: http://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/biomedical/bionics/sensitive-prosthetic-hand-gets-a-grip

Just wanted to show that biomedical engineering is moving ahead.

 

[kenji]

flippin brilliant

 

[carol kane]

Maybe we'll all be walking around like Mr Spock in the future for real!!! anything to to rid us of this F#@#ing affliction!! Lennard Nimoy has T by the way... due to an on set explosion right next to him so i've read!!!