Prosthesis

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Woman’s Experimental Bionic Hand Passes Major Test With Flying Colors

The Mia Hand prosthetic, fused with bone and connected to the nervous system, has given its owner a new lease on life and much less phantom pain.

Health Ed Cara Oct 12

Your Hands Are Probably Heavier Than You Think

Researchers in the UK have found that people consistently underestimate how much their hands weigh, but less so when they're tired.

Health Ed Cara Jul 26

House of the Dragon’s Prosthetic Designer Talks the Process of Transforming Viserys Targaryen

Showing Viserys' tragic decline took a lot of research and effort.

Television Justin Carter Oct 23

Lifelike Robotic Hand Is a Bit Too Close to Terminator for Our Liking

Called ILDA, the hand can use scissors, crush cans, and grasp delicate objects.

Tech News George Dvorsky Dec 14

Like ‘A Part of Their Body’: People Adapt to an Extra Thumb in Fascinating Experiment

An experiment in which 36 people were fitted with a robotic third thumb has demonstrated the brain’s uncanny ability to adapt and leverage an entirely new body part, and in ways the researchers are still trying to understand. The Third Thumb started as an award-winning graduate project at the Royal College of Art in London,…

Health George Dvorsky May 19

‘Electronic Skin’ Allows User of Prosthetic Hand to Feel Pain

Current prosthetic limbs aren’t yet capable of transmitting complex sensations like texture or pain to the user, but a recent breakthrough by scientists at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, in which a synthetic layer of skin on an artificial hand transmitted feelings of pain directly to the user, takes us one step closer to that…

Tech News George Dvorsky Jun 20

‘Bionic Actress’ Angel Giuffria Is Ready for People With Disabilities to Get Their Close-Up

It seems like diversity and representation in front of, and behind, the camera has finally become important to filmmakers.

Movies Maria Lewis May 31

Medieval Italian Man Replaced His Amputated Hand With a Knife

Italian anthropologists have documented a remarkable case in which a Medieval-era Italian male not only managed to survive the amputation of his right hand, he also used a bladed weapon as a prosthetic limb. Over 160 tombs have been excavated at the Longobard necropolis of Povegliano Veronese in Veneto, Northern Italy, but this skeleton, pulled…

Tech News George Dvorsky Apr 16

Cancer Survivor Receives Jaw Thanks to New 3D Printing Technique

Shirley Anderson of Indiana was in great need of a prosthesis. Doctors found a cancerous lump on his tongue in the 1998 and shortly after, he began radiation treatments. He underwent a radium implant to help him replace some of his lower jaw, but it didn’t work. So he turned to prosthetics. Dr. Travis Bellicchi,…

Tech News Carli Velocci Jul 2

Wearable prostheses turn dancers into musical instruments

The Instrumented Bodies project creates prosthetic musical instruments that create sound based on the movement of the wearer’s body. They also appear as cyborg extensions of the body, luminescent spinal cords, visors, and rib cage attachments. Photo by Vanessa Yaremchuk for Instrumented Bodies. Ph.D. researchers Joseph Malloch and Ian Hattwick created these prostheses at the…

io9 Lauren Davis Aug 18

Brilliant and bejeweled prostheses designed to stand out instead of blend in

While many prosthetic limbs are either purely functional, or designed to somewhat resemble the limbs they replace, the prostheses designed by Sophie de Oliveira Barata for her Alternative Limb Project celebrate their artificial nature. This design studio creates personalized limbs that offer a beauty very distinct from their flesh-and-blood counterparts. The Alternative Limb Project does…

io9 Lauren Davis Apr 6

Bionic man scales Willis Tower with the world’s first neurally controlled prosthetic leg

Chicago’s Willis (formerly “Sears”) Tower is one of the tallest skyscrapers in the world — and yesterday it was scaled by amputee/bionic-badass Zac Vawter. Vawter had assistance, of course, albeit in a truly revolutionary form. In a bioengineering first, the 31-year-old — who lost his right leg in a 2009 motorcycle accident — scaled all…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez Nov 5

Non-Zombie Arrested for Beating Man to Death With Prosthetic Arm

Ray Allen Brown, a 52-year-old non-zombie Arkansas man, is in jail tonight, charged with second-degree murder for the death of 52-year-old Robert Brindley. No bath salts are known to have been involved, nor was any human flesh consumed by the human charged with the crime. His weapon of choice: his prosthetic arm, and a rock.…

Tech News Molly Oswaks Jun 1

Would You Really Cut Off Your Own Arm for a Robotic One?

Filmmaker Rob Spence, otherwise known as the Eyeborg, has been toying with robotics for some time. Now, with the help of some engineers, he has a robotic eye that can record near everything he sees. He thinks voluntary prosthesis is the future. https://gizmodo.com/filmmaker-gets-his-cyborg-like-led-prosthetic-eye-5204545 Now, we’ve made some remarkable strides in replacing the lost body parts…

Tech News Kwame Opam Aug 27

New synthetic vocal cord gel gives voice to the voiceless

Call it a silent killer: some 6 percent of the U.S. population has some kind of voice disorder, most of those resulting from scarring of the vocal cords that can lead to diminishing or even total loss of the ability to speak. Giving voice to the voiceless, a team of Harvard and MIT researchers have…

io9 Clay Dillow - Popular Science Jul 16

Ortho-Tag Uses RFID To Identify Your Implants

When you have a prosthetic device implanted in your body, how do you retrieve information about it? You can’t look at the bottom for a model number and you don’t want to go under the knife to find the manufacturer. Orthopedic surgeon Lee Berger along with Marlin Mickle of the University of Pittsburgh developed a…

Tech News Kelly Jun 13

This Tiny Horse With a Prosthetic Leg Will Melt Your Cold, Snarky Heart

Where to even begin with this! Adorable miniature horse Midnite—and don’t you dare call him a pony—lost most of his rear leg under negligence of a previous owner. Unable to bring themselves to euthanize the wee man, Ranch Hand Rescue worked with Forth Worth’s Prosthetic Care to fashion him a tiny prosthetic horse leg. The…

Tech News Brian Barrett Mar 24

Roger Ebert’s New Chin

A battle with cancer left film megacritic Roger Ebert without much of the lower half of his face. But he will appear on his new TV show looking quite like his old self. How? A meticulously sculpted prosthetic chin. https://gizmodo.com/how-roger-ebert-will-get-his-voice-back-5474950 In a post on his blog, Ebert outlines the two year process that gave him…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert Jan 21

These Prosthetics Limbs Look Better Than Many Real Ones

Let’s get something straight—amputation is an awful, tragic thing. That being said, these personally customized prosthetic limbs are wonderful in that they make people mobile again—and look like German sports cars. Great industrial design for a great cause. When Bespoke Innovations, the firm behind the prosthetics, has a new client, they’re given a substantive interview…

Tech News Sam Biddle Dec 20

Dean Kamen Appears on Colbert Report, Literally Armed with Bionic Limb

Dean Kamen is both notoriously shy and uninterested when it comes to media appearances, but Stephen Colbert was able to lure him in with his earnest, unrelenting, right-wing agenda. And Kamen even brought his DARPA-funded bionic Luke Arm. Full video: Click to view Colbert Report Full Episodes Political Humor Health Care Reform If you haven’t…

Tech News Mark Wilson Apr 7

Prosthesis

Woman’s Experimental Bionic Hand Passes Major Test With Flying Colors

Your Hands Are Probably Heavier Than You Think

House of the Dragon’s Prosthetic Designer Talks the Process of Transforming Viserys Targaryen

Lifelike Robotic Hand Is a Bit Too Close to Terminator for Our Liking

Like ‘A Part of Their Body’: People Adapt to an Extra Thumb in Fascinating Experiment

‘Electronic Skin’ Allows User of Prosthetic Hand to Feel Pain

‘Bionic Actress’ Angel Giuffria Is Ready for People With Disabilities to Get Their Close-Up

Medieval Italian Man Replaced His Amputated Hand With a Knife

Cancer Survivor Receives Jaw Thanks to New 3D Printing Technique

Wearable prostheses turn dancers into musical instruments

Brilliant and bejeweled prostheses designed to stand out instead of blend in

Bionic man scales Willis Tower with the world’s first neurally controlled prosthetic leg

Non-Zombie Arrested for Beating Man to Death With Prosthetic Arm

Would You Really Cut Off Your Own Arm for a Robotic One?

New synthetic vocal cord gel gives voice to the voiceless

Ortho-Tag Uses RFID To Identify Your Implants

This Tiny Horse With a Prosthetic Leg Will Melt Your Cold, Snarky Heart

Roger Ebert’s New Chin

These Prosthetics Limbs Look Better Than Many Real Ones

Dean Kamen Appears on Colbert Report, Literally Armed with Bionic Limb

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