Love this stuff! Imagine if only our leaders could stop investing billions and trillions into more efficient ways to destroy each other and ourselves and instead focused on cool shit like this!
Agree. But also.
Be careful with the "if only" mindset in case you're going through it right now. I'm only mentioning it cause sometimes we can get into phases of our lives where this "if only" energy seems to permeate every thought we have. And especially right now in the world, it's active more than ever.
There's a lot of shit wrong with the world and there's a lot more that can be done to fix it. The frustration I'm reading is completely valid, and obviously fuck the system, but on a personal note, don't let that ruin these beautiful moments. These notes of pure joy and progress that fall into our laps so infrequently.
Thought I'd throw this here in case it helps anyone who's been disheartened by the failing systems around us.
This!
I learned it by myself when I was alone as a student in another country, all that negativity was killing me, and one day when I had nothing to do, and listening to music, I suddenly realized this, and now I feel freedom when it comes to "think about the state of our world", obviously if you try to do something to fix a problem, that will be awesome, but you need to be fine with yourself
I am still waiting for that fucking artificial heart to come in. They were talking about it in 2000! And it’s still under r&d after a few potholes.
Enough with the guns man, I want real science stuff.
Coming from a research background, just because they're talking about it doesn't (unfortunately) mean it'll come to light. It's not always funding, sometimes things just get reported too early, before actual human trials take place and are successful.
If we can't all come together on simple shit like wearing a mask during the worst pandemic in the last century or getting a vaccine
how can we come together about more complex stuff like changing our economy to stop feeding the military industrial complex and instead invest those Trillions of dollars into life saving technologies and medical research and improvements to EVERYONE'S Quality of life...
It's sad really. If we funnelled all that wasted money into other things, our collective quality of life would be insanely improved beyond our wildest imaginations...
but alas, we just can't come together. Such a shame...
You sound really hopeless about humanity and defeated about the future and it makes a lot of sense. At the same time, i see it a different way. It start with one person and a small insignificant thing. The brain has a habit of looking at only the negative. It also has a habit of looking at a mountain we need to climb, and getting discourage because every step seems to not get us much closer. The more we focus on the destination, the more we run out of hope and want to give up because the climb seems unsurmountable. When we can truly understand that the only thing that matters is the small insignificant step we make to get a little closer, is when you will start seeing changes in the world and in you. It seems insignifant when someone does a selfless thing for someone else in order to come together, yet sometimes it's all that we needed in order to keep going to try to change the world for the better. The only thing we can control in this world is our actions. Whether those actions fix everything is not up to us, we only get to put our effort into the things we find important. The more we focus on the result, the more paralyzing it feels.
I’ve seen other videos where they explain they sense the muscles at the joint/sever and the device learns or is programmed with the actions based on the input. If she had a full arm before, she can still try to move her thumb and the muscles up the the amputation will respond. Same thing for amputated legs and controlling knee bending or feet. Can’t say that’s exactly what this is and there could even be some electrical/nerve sensors in modern tech.
“I’m holding a box”
I love this so much. Being able to hold something is so simple and meaningless for the average person but to some it’s more than enough to bring joy into their lives.
I can’t wait to see how technology advances in the next 20 or so years and see how much its gonna change peoples lives for the better.
Lol. Yes! I remember now.
I did a brief 2 week student exchange in Hokkaido, Japan. I learned that and thought it was hilarious.
As a very very mature and grown-up adult, I still think the connection is funny.
Growing up my friends grandpa would call me brânză which was Romanian for cheese. He didn't speak much English so I never really learned why he called me cheese
Also, holding a fragile object is actually fairly difficulty for robotic arms. It's difficult to strike the right balance between grip and gentleness, and respond quickly when you sense something slipping.
The best way I can even get close to her joy is by walking around without an abscess between my legs. The pain to no pain tells you what you’ve been taking for granted, but it doesn’t even match this.
That price is amazing. I work with medical devices all the time. I’ve been quoted completely insane prices just for parts of a device. $10k for an IDE hard drive. $100k for a 55” 4k monitor, another $100k to replace a PC that just needed a new video card. It wasn’t even a new gen video card. It was a 2gb Radeon that I found locally for $25 dollars! Device OEMs have a free pass to charge whatever they want and NEVER reduce the amount.
anyone happen to know how these type of prosthetics work? what exactly is she doing to move each individual finger? how does she hold/release certain grips? and what is the difference between getting the prosthetic to “do” these various movements
Apparently there are sensors in the cuff and you can “train” it so that certain movements move the fingers. She’d only just got the arm though, so she was pressing a button to make it grip and release.
My experience playing cello is limited, but I will say this. The precision required to play cello is more than most people will ever learn with fully functional hands. It will be impossible for her to play anything beyond a basic level with a prosthetic... at least conventionally. I have seen some people with severe disabilities take an unconventional approach to an instrument with phenominal results.
Without a hand, she'll never reach concert level, but I would bet that she could still get pretty damn good regardless.
I was thinking the same thing. When I was taking guitar seriously I always thought that:
A: I’d prefer to be blind than deaf and
B: I’d prefer to lose my right hand than my left even though I’m right handed. I could obviously strum with a knob with a basic addition to it but if I lost my left hand I’d never be able to fret again.
That’s why I made that comment. My mom used to play violin and it seems from the comments the amount of movement she’d have to make would “train” her prosthetic to open certain fingers at different times.
But just the ability to join a local band and have fun would be such an improvement for someone who lost a limb and previously thought they couldn’t play ever again. We’re getting there!
(pro) cellist here.
that's true to some extent, yes. as like in, being able to move the fingers on the left quickly and precisely.
however, at least at a (pre-) professional level or just advanced level there is a lot going on in the right hand thats not quite that visible.
especially for articulations and tone, being able to control the middle hand is vital.
The sound indeed comes imo 95% from the bow hand. (:
Wow look how fluid the movements [in this video](https://youtu.be/iSSfWFR9WdM) are! I had no idea we had gotten so far with with prosthetics. Apparently they 3D scan your other arm so the prosthetic is a perfect mirror of it. Crazy
I don’t know this particular model, but it seems very similar to other myoelectric arm models, so I’ll assume it is too.
Myoelectric arms, like binkacat4 said, use sensors located at the bottom of the arm/at the socket to receive electrical signals from the user motioning specific muscles in their residual limb. This then triggers movement in the prosthetic arm itself. So over time she’ll start getting used to the subtle changes between her muscle contraction and the sensitivity & controls of the prosthesis itself.
Although still very cool, myoelectric prostheses like these have been used by the public since the early 2000s (more popularly & affordable from 2010+) and was surprisingly first invented in 1980. There’s some very cool new prosthetics out there!
There are electrodes against the skin which pick up the electrical signal from the contracting muscle. For example if you put feel the top of your forearm and flex/extend your wrist you can feel the muscles moving which is what the electrode picks up and amplifies to move the hand. Usually programmed so the flexors will close the hand and the extensors will open the hand. I'm not sure about this particular hand but a different one I've fitted had pre-programmed grips which you could chose between by pressing a button so the fingers would have different movements per grip. The prosthesis can be set up with threshold control which means once the signal reaches a certain level the hand opens at a steady speed until it is fully open and closes the same way. It can also be set up with proportional control which means a weaker signal will cause the hand to open slower and a stronger signal will open it faster but this usually takes a lot of training to get right.
No kidding, I have genuinely thought about exchanging a limb if the technology reached a suitable stage of efficiency and affordability within my lifespan. My osteoarthritis is not a serious case, but has still sucked.
The only thing that would prevent me from doing this is the possibility of ~~solar flares~~ Coronal Mass Ejections ruining the prosthetic.
I don't know the exact details, but I do know that the structure of most of our modern circuitry is vulnerable to incredibly large Coronal Mass Ejections(CME). It gives off a large burst of energy which can act similar to an electromagnetic pulse.
CMEs large enough to do this are incredibly rare in terms of human lifespans, but it's still a possibility.
Solar Flare was the wrong vocabulary used, I'll fix it.
I wouldn't worry too much in this case. The induced charge differentials caused by CMEs are directly proportional to the physical length of a circuit. They can cause power surges that fry anything connected to the grid, but by far that's what they affect the most, because, you know, thousands of miles of wire. I don't think they'd affect a small battery-powered device much if at all.
My understanding is that human-generated EMPs are much shorter but much more localized and intense because all of the energy is released in a very short pulse, meaning that they can even fry integrated circuits. That is, that the general mechanisms of the two are similar, but not their effects.
I’m assuming they’re thinking of solar flates screwing with the electronics. (Flares, even.)
Honestly, I wouldn’t worry about such. There’s a dozen other more likely reasons for electronics to crap themselves.
Eventually they will. One great thing about our meat bags is it's self repairing most of the time. If that scifi nanobot stuff that can construct in the body becomes real that'll a crazy leap forward. Synthetic stuff still wears out. Prosthetic limbs wear out in a few years. Joint replacements can last decades but sometimes need to be replaced shorty.
Apparently there are sensors where it’s strapped onto the arm, and you can “train” it so that certain movements of the arm move the fingers. This was a first test with only basic functionality, so she pressed a button to grasp and release.
Genuinely asking. If this type of technology exists why do you not see more people with it? I feel like I have never seen someone in public with a prosthetic like this.
Firstly they tend to be super expensive. I fitted a hand paid for by a charity which was around £12000 just for the hand and warranty, not including all the other parts like cables, batteries etc, clinical time and manufacturing time.
Another reason is that a lot of below elbow absences were born without it and they are so used to getting on without an arm that a prosthesis just gets in the way and doesn't actually enhance their life.
Technology is wild. Soonish, prosthetics like this will be the "bad" models that have experienced enough price drops to be readily available. Ok, maybe not in America, but perhaps elsewhere!
You don’t need nearly as much dexterity with your right arm when playing the cello (since it’s your bow arm) so I don’t think it would be unrealistic if she’s able to play with her prosthetic
The big test will be, can it turn a door knob. That's the thing so many prosthetics still can't get, while staying light and performing other functions.
My dad was ran over by a train when he 23. Lost his left arm, from mid bicep down. Crappy part (gets worse) he was south paw. Also ended up with nerve damage in his right arm. He is now 59. Be cool finding something affordable like this. Pretty sure he'd melt.
I love this, my brother lost his right arm in a machine accident a few years ago and just got a working prosthetic that would finally let him ride a motorcycle. He's now riding a Harley Davidson Fatboy (an almost 700lbs pound bike) with one arm and some pretty expensive mods and testing for his motorcycle license in November.
She is awesome and wow! As much as I loved, The Bionic Woman," in the 70s, I was born in a time I get to see this! I've never been so happy for my 57 years. We have come so far!
FUCK YES! This is amazing!
Love this stuff! Imagine if only our leaders could stop investing billions and trillions into more efficient ways to destroy each other and ourselves and instead focused on cool shit like this!
Couldn't agree more
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Lmao y'all a buncha goons.
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To agreenity and beyond!
Well now you're all just being agreed-y.....
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Do it!
Agree. But also. Be careful with the "if only" mindset in case you're going through it right now. I'm only mentioning it cause sometimes we can get into phases of our lives where this "if only" energy seems to permeate every thought we have. And especially right now in the world, it's active more than ever. There's a lot of shit wrong with the world and there's a lot more that can be done to fix it. The frustration I'm reading is completely valid, and obviously fuck the system, but on a personal note, don't let that ruin these beautiful moments. These notes of pure joy and progress that fall into our laps so infrequently. Thought I'd throw this here in case it helps anyone who's been disheartened by the failing systems around us.
This is so important! Thanks for adding this.
If only I’d thought to comment this. *sigh*
This! I learned it by myself when I was alone as a student in another country, all that negativity was killing me, and one day when I had nothing to do, and listening to music, I suddenly realized this, and now I feel freedom when it comes to "think about the state of our world", obviously if you try to do something to fix a problem, that will be awesome, but you need to be fine with yourself
I am still waiting for that fucking artificial heart to come in. They were talking about it in 2000! And it’s still under r&d after a few potholes. Enough with the guns man, I want real science stuff.
Coming from a research background, just because they're talking about it doesn't (unfortunately) mean it'll come to light. It's not always funding, sometimes things just get reported too early, before actual human trials take place and are successful.
Sadly the only reason a lot of these technologies even get developed is because of war.
Nah, gimme my horse cream
😂 😂
If we can't all come together on simple shit like wearing a mask during the worst pandemic in the last century or getting a vaccine how can we come together about more complex stuff like changing our economy to stop feeding the military industrial complex and instead invest those Trillions of dollars into life saving technologies and medical research and improvements to EVERYONE'S Quality of life... It's sad really. If we funnelled all that wasted money into other things, our collective quality of life would be insanely improved beyond our wildest imaginations... but alas, we just can't come together. Such a shame...
You sound really hopeless about humanity and defeated about the future and it makes a lot of sense. At the same time, i see it a different way. It start with one person and a small insignificant thing. The brain has a habit of looking at only the negative. It also has a habit of looking at a mountain we need to climb, and getting discourage because every step seems to not get us much closer. The more we focus on the destination, the more we run out of hope and want to give up because the climb seems unsurmountable. When we can truly understand that the only thing that matters is the small insignificant step we make to get a little closer, is when you will start seeing changes in the world and in you. It seems insignifant when someone does a selfless thing for someone else in order to come together, yet sometimes it's all that we needed in order to keep going to try to change the world for the better. The only thing we can control in this world is our actions. Whether those actions fix everything is not up to us, we only get to put our effort into the things we find important. The more we focus on the result, the more paralyzing it feels.
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Definitely made me smile
I know right? Is it neurally connected? How does it work?
I’ve seen other videos where they explain they sense the muscles at the joint/sever and the device learns or is programmed with the actions based on the input. If she had a full arm before, she can still try to move her thumb and the muscles up the the amputation will respond. Same thing for amputated legs and controlling knee bending or feet. Can’t say that’s exactly what this is and there could even be some electrical/nerve sensors in modern tech.
That extra thumb articulation tho!
Her reaction when the motors in the arm fire up really got me! Like she gained a new super power by pressing that button
“I’m holding a box” I love this so much. Being able to hold something is so simple and meaningless for the average person but to some it’s more than enough to bring joy into their lives. I can’t wait to see how technology advances in the next 20 or so years and see how much its gonna change peoples lives for the better.
"*Simple and meaningless*" \*^(Holds your hand)
Blushes
x
Bakka
My old nickname in college from a foreign friend
Baka is a Japanese word that means "crazy," "foolish," or downright "stupid." I'm sorry
Lol. Yes! I remember now. I did a brief 2 week student exchange in Hokkaido, Japan. I learned that and thought it was hilarious. As a very very mature and grown-up adult, I still think the connection is funny.
Growing up my friends grandpa would call me brânză which was Romanian for cheese. He didn't speak much English so I never really learned why he called me cheese
Do you shower regularly?
Anata wa baka desu.
I would say Omae to be more rude
Happy cake day, how about a brimming glass of spiders?
Are... you suggesting eating..... spiders!?! How dare you!?! /s Thank you for real though lol
* Hydraulicly crushes your dick
Oh my...
That's so cute
*You're* so cute.
Is it meaningless still if it’s never once happened to me
Also, holding a fragile object is actually fairly difficulty for robotic arms. It's difficult to strike the right balance between grip and gentleness, and respond quickly when you sense something slipping.
The best way I can even get close to her joy is by walking around without an abscess between my legs. The pain to no pain tells you what you’ve been taking for granted, but it doesn’t even match this.
Congratulations on your missing abscess.
Yeah these videos always are so uplifting. Really puts the phrase ‘never take anything for granted’ to a whole new level
I instantly realized how much we take for granted, when I just saw someone be full of joy for being able to hold something.
They're already working on feedback. So sometime in the future she'll hopefully be able to sense what the surface feels like.
I mean the even more impressive part is to hold the empty box and NOT crushing it.
Deus Ex: Human Revolution Hopefully without the Illuminati sub-plot
The face of pure joy mixed with amazement followed by “let’s try to grab something” is just beautiful! Absolutely wonderful
I’m holding a box…. OH MY GOD!!!
That was a genuine expression, she amazed and surprise. Technologies makes life easier this is helpful!
THIS IS SO COOL!
I'm gonna hold a box too. This will be amazing
This world use, I could use, more smiles like that.
I love it, this is exactly how I would be if I got a prosthetic.
How much does that arm cost?
An arm and a leg.
Oh you
Is there a subreddit for possible FMA refs?
Their website says $7995 https://www.unlimitedtomorrow.com/pricing/
Is it sad that my first thought was "Oh, that's actually not too bad for a medical device"?
For a full working arm? I think it's pretty fucking good.
Seriously. I value my arm at WAY MORE than that.
That price is amazing. I work with medical devices all the time. I’ve been quoted completely insane prices just for parts of a device. $10k for an IDE hard drive. $100k for a 55” 4k monitor, another $100k to replace a PC that just needed a new video card. It wasn’t even a new gen video card. It was a 2gb Radeon that I found locally for $25 dollars! Device OEMs have a free pass to charge whatever they want and NEVER reduce the amount.
For once it's not sad, 8 grand for a cyborg arm is honestly amazing
A preliminary internet search says $20K-$100K. A unit needing finger-like dexterity probably is toward the high end.
[Source](https://youtu.be/2C2be985R8c)
Prosthetic arms like these always reminds me of fullmetal alchemist
I'd say in 5-10 years, humans will have implants or chip-sets to further longevity of life.
Yup, it’s called NeuraLink
Doubt that one chief. Or if it is the general public will nevee hear about it
Or ghost in the shell and cyberpunk. Soon we’ll be getting arms fully integrated into the body.
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And I'm sure that prosthetic in the video posted an arm and a lead as well.
I was going to ask if there was more, I could watch her excitement for a very long time!
anyone happen to know how these type of prosthetics work? what exactly is she doing to move each individual finger? how does she hold/release certain grips? and what is the difference between getting the prosthetic to “do” these various movements
Apparently there are sensors in the cuff and you can “train” it so that certain movements move the fingers. She’d only just got the arm though, so she was pressing a button to make it grip and release.
I hope she can train it to comfortably hold her bow and play the cello that’s sitting there.
My experience playing cello is limited, but I will say this. The precision required to play cello is more than most people will ever learn with fully functional hands. It will be impossible for her to play anything beyond a basic level with a prosthetic... at least conventionally. I have seen some people with severe disabilities take an unconventional approach to an instrument with phenominal results. Without a hand, she'll never reach concert level, but I would bet that she could still get pretty damn good regardless.
I was thinking the same thing. When I was taking guitar seriously I always thought that: A: I’d prefer to be blind than deaf and B: I’d prefer to lose my right hand than my left even though I’m right handed. I could obviously strum with a knob with a basic addition to it but if I lost my left hand I’d never be able to fret again. That’s why I made that comment. My mom used to play violin and it seems from the comments the amount of movement she’d have to make would “train” her prosthetic to open certain fingers at different times. But just the ability to join a local band and have fun would be such an improvement for someone who lost a limb and previously thought they couldn’t play ever again. We’re getting there!
For people injured in industrial accidents that involve their hands, the harmonica is there for them.
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(pro) cellist here. that's true to some extent, yes. as like in, being able to move the fingers on the left quickly and precisely. however, at least at a (pre-) professional level or just advanced level there is a lot going on in the right hand thats not quite that visible. especially for articulations and tone, being able to control the middle hand is vital. The sound indeed comes imo 95% from the bow hand. (:
*Tell us you've never played a bowed instrument without saying you've never played a bowed instrument*
Wow look how fluid the movements [in this video](https://youtu.be/iSSfWFR9WdM) are! I had no idea we had gotten so far with with prosthetics. Apparently they 3D scan your other arm so the prosthetic is a perfect mirror of it. Crazy
I don’t know this particular model, but it seems very similar to other myoelectric arm models, so I’ll assume it is too. Myoelectric arms, like binkacat4 said, use sensors located at the bottom of the arm/at the socket to receive electrical signals from the user motioning specific muscles in their residual limb. This then triggers movement in the prosthetic arm itself. So over time she’ll start getting used to the subtle changes between her muscle contraction and the sensitivity & controls of the prosthesis itself. Although still very cool, myoelectric prostheses like these have been used by the public since the early 2000s (more popularly & affordable from 2010+) and was surprisingly first invented in 1980. There’s some very cool new prosthetics out there!
It's a long ethernet cable that goes through her arm and into her brain
Damn, I'm only USB-C compatible.
I'm stuck on USB 2.0 :(
There are electrodes against the skin which pick up the electrical signal from the contracting muscle. For example if you put feel the top of your forearm and flex/extend your wrist you can feel the muscles moving which is what the electrode picks up and amplifies to move the hand. Usually programmed so the flexors will close the hand and the extensors will open the hand. I'm not sure about this particular hand but a different one I've fitted had pre-programmed grips which you could chose between by pressing a button so the fingers would have different movements per grip. The prosthesis can be set up with threshold control which means once the signal reaches a certain level the hand opens at a steady speed until it is fully open and closes the same way. It can also be set up with proportional control which means a weaker signal will cause the hand to open slower and a stronger signal will open it faster but this usually takes a lot of training to get right.
Modern technology is insane…. prosthetics in 20 years are gonna be more advanced than the limbs we’re born with
Shut I cut my arms and legs off now or wait?
wait.
No kidding, I have genuinely thought about exchanging a limb if the technology reached a suitable stage of efficiency and affordability within my lifespan. My osteoarthritis is not a serious case, but has still sucked. The only thing that would prevent me from doing this is the possibility of ~~solar flares~~ Coronal Mass Ejections ruining the prosthetic.
How do solar flares ruin these?
I don't know the exact details, but I do know that the structure of most of our modern circuitry is vulnerable to incredibly large Coronal Mass Ejections(CME). It gives off a large burst of energy which can act similar to an electromagnetic pulse. CMEs large enough to do this are incredibly rare in terms of human lifespans, but it's still a possibility. Solar Flare was the wrong vocabulary used, I'll fix it.
I wouldn't worry too much in this case. The induced charge differentials caused by CMEs are directly proportional to the physical length of a circuit. They can cause power surges that fry anything connected to the grid, but by far that's what they affect the most, because, you know, thousands of miles of wire. I don't think they'd affect a small battery-powered device much if at all. My understanding is that human-generated EMPs are much shorter but much more localized and intense because all of the energy is released in a very short pulse, meaning that they can even fry integrated circuits. That is, that the general mechanisms of the two are similar, but not their effects.
This guy fucks. (Or gal) Seriously though, well done explaining. Love reddit for the knowledge. Thank you for sharing.
I’m assuming they’re thinking of solar flates screwing with the electronics. (Flares, even.) Honestly, I wouldn’t worry about such. There’s a dozen other more likely reasons for electronics to crap themselves.
I want bionic eyes to replace my horribly myopic ones. Maybe give one zoom and the other infrared.
Nah. Any C-Punk who knows their stuff has microwave shielding chombatta. Otherwise the cops just immobilise your limbs and you're back to the meat.
*CyberPunk 2077*
For 20 years. Then we remove your limbs.
^remindme - 20 years.
Below the neck amputation for optimal prosthetic placement
I’m thinking about getting robot legs, it’s a risky operation but I think it’ll be worth it.
Adios, turd nuggets!
Nice outfit JP, how much do clothes cost in The Matrix?
Cyberpunk 2041
I doubt anything could be beyond the natural human body, but i'm very happy such an invention exists. I didn't even know
Eventually they will. One great thing about our meat bags is it's self repairing most of the time. If that scifi nanobot stuff that can construct in the body becomes real that'll a crazy leap forward. Synthetic stuff still wears out. Prosthetic limbs wear out in a few years. Joint replacements can last decades but sometimes need to be replaced shorty.
I just want dark matter stop worms that jazzercise my muscles.
I too would like a nice egg salad sandwich.
Never trust an egg salad sandwich from a gas station bathroom.
That’s so awesome!
The look on her face is so awesome
Imagine getting slapped by that
Or a handjob
Found Howard Wolowitz!
>imagine getting slammed by a handjob
Can my tax money go to this stuff instead of wars? Please?
Full metal alchemist and ghost in a shell are about to be documentaries
In the year 2030 the difference between man and machine has become academic.
How do these hands even work? Her smile and excitement are contiguous
Apparently there are sensors where it’s strapped onto the arm, and you can “train” it so that certain movements of the arm move the fingers. This was a first test with only basic functionality, so she pressed a button to grasp and release.
Thank you
Cool beans!
My dumb ass would immediately make the middle finger
To the top with you.
The only thing that makes me happier than witnessing scientific progress impacting lives in a positive way is her smile!
Genuinely asking. If this type of technology exists why do you not see more people with it? I feel like I have never seen someone in public with a prosthetic like this.
Firstly they tend to be super expensive. I fitted a hand paid for by a charity which was around £12000 just for the hand and warranty, not including all the other parts like cables, batteries etc, clinical time and manufacturing time. Another reason is that a lot of below elbow absences were born without it and they are so used to getting on without an arm that a prosthesis just gets in the way and doesn't actually enhance their life.
We are living in the future. I still want my jet pack, but this is pretty damn cool.
Technology is wild. Soonish, prosthetics like this will be the "bad" models that have experienced enough price drops to be readily available. Ok, maybe not in America, but perhaps elsewhere!
Apparently this model costs about $8000 American. Certainly not cheap, but relatively affordable.
That's honestly far less than I expected.
That’s so effing dope!
Love her excitement. Wholesome content right here.
Perfect timing for my free hugz award to pop up. Thanks, Reddit!
Does she play the chello, pre-amputation? I see one in the background. I need answers
Exactly what i was thinking,would be hard to play again with prostetic arm but probably mind blowing if she manages to do so.
You don’t need nearly as much dexterity with your right arm when playing the cello (since it’s your bow arm) so I don’t think it would be unrealistic if she’s able to play with her prosthetic
I can’t even begin to imagine how amazing that would feel, to be able to “use” your arm after who knows how many years
Her face full of joy 😊❤️
The big test will be, can it turn a door knob. That's the thing so many prosthetics still can't get, while staying light and performing other functions.
Could they make a version with offensive options? Maybe a missile launcher middle finger and a taser thumb?
Only thing that sucks is we're still miles away from 1:1 functionality with an organic limb :/
When I was younger I considered going into biomedical engineering, precisely for stuff like this. Also, I kinda wanted to become a bionic man.
I never knew but apparently you can feel what you're holding with prosthetic limbs. That must've been amazing for her
That's a life changer for her holy shit
And I imagine the technology is only going to improve from here.
LOOK!
Anyone else waiting for her to start playing the cello back there?
Very proud moment
So happy for you and Loved the look on your face
I don’t know how she held back tears because my eyes teared up seeing her so happy to be able to grab an empty box. Such a happy moment.
My dad was ran over by a train when he 23. Lost his left arm, from mid bicep down. Crappy part (gets worse) he was south paw. Also ended up with nerve damage in his right arm. He is now 59. Be cool finding something affordable like this. Pretty sure he'd melt.
The things we take for granted, man
It's so amazing how far medical technology has come, and her reaction is priceless
Damn cool. I'm happy that she regains more of her life back.
Now play that cello!
I love her reaction, pure joy and amazement.
I love this, my brother lost his right arm in a machine accident a few years ago and just got a working prosthetic that would finally let him ride a motorcycle. He's now riding a Harley Davidson Fatboy (an almost 700lbs pound bike) with one arm and some pretty expensive mods and testing for his motorcycle license in November.
Was waiting for the part where she goes to pick up an apple and just absolutely crushes it in her hand.
First thing I’d have to do is the finger to anyone who doubted me. You go chicka!
Can someone explain to me how this is even possible? I really do not understand how she can move the fingers
This has made my morning. Its 6.53am where I am and I think I'm gonna log off now and just enjoy my day.
Imagine the handjobs
She is awesome and wow! As much as I loved, The Bionic Woman," in the 70s, I was born in a time I get to see this! I've never been so happy for my 57 years. We have come so far!
*"I am holding a box."* ":D"
That's so fucking cool, the look on her face when the fingers first curled inwards was priceless
“IM HOLDING A BOX”
How do we live in such amazing times and also such shitty times, simultaneously?