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By Phillip Torrone
Posted 2011/05/18 @ 3:00 pm
Category General

News From The Future – Amputee Demonstrates Bionic Hand…

Last year, Patrick, a 24-year-old Austrian, decided to have his dysfunctional hand amputated and replaced with a bionic hand. He lost the use of his left hand after being electrocuted at work. Here he demonstrates the extra movement his new bionic hand has given him, opening a bottle and tying his shoelaces, and tests a prototype hand which will give him additional wrist movement

BY Phillip Torrone

Editor at large - Make magazine. Creative director - Adafruit Industries, contributing editor - Popular Science. Previously: Founded - Hack-a-Day, how-to editor - Engadget, Director of product development - Fallon Worldwide, Technology Director - Braincraft.

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9 Responses to News From The Future – Amputee Demonstrates Bionic Hand

ross brown on May 18th, 2011 at 11:30 pm said:

Electrocuted = dead.

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- Anonymous on May 19th, 2011 at 12:02 am said:
  
  Nifty. I guess if your hand was useless you’d trade up in a second.
  
  No description of how he controls it though.
  
  @google-02c08686dc8c6d865142c6282f6505df:disqus Electrocuted = injure or kill someone by electric shock
  
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  Weasel5i2 on May 19th, 2011 at 3:20 am said:
  
  Electrocution is the stopping of life (determined by a stopped heart) by any type of electric shock. At least, it is according to Wikipedia. ^_^
  
  On topic though, I wonder how he controls the hand.. Is it through nerve-impulse detection, or is it mechanical, a là flexing certain muscles against the harness?
  
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- Anonymous on May 19th, 2011 at 12:02 am said:
  
  Nifty. I guess if your hand was useless you’d trade up in a second.
  
  No description of how he controls it though.
  
  @google-02c08686dc8c6d865142c6282f6505df:disqus Electrocuted = injure or kill someone by electric shock
  
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Anonymous on May 19th, 2011 at 12:59 am said:

There is a great video of the DECKA arm out there, it was on 60 Minutes. It is controlled by a mixture of movements from the existing stump and feet.

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Anonymous on May 19th, 2011 at 12:59 am said:

There is a great video of the DECKA arm out there, it was on 60 Minutes. It is controlled by a mixture of movements from the existing stump and feet.

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Anonymous on May 19th, 2011 at 12:59 am said:

There is a great video of the DECKA arm out there, it was on 60 Minutes. It is controlled by a mixture of movements from the existing stump and feet.

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Anonymous on May 19th, 2011 at 12:59 am said:

There is a great video of the DECKA arm out there, it was on 60 Minutes. It is controlled by a mixture of movements from the existing stump and feet.

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