deglove
Verb • to deglove (third-person singular simple present degloves, present participle degloving, simple past and past participle degloved)
“to peel back the skin from part of the body as if removing a glove, especially as the result of an accident” – Wikitionary
After Evan Reynolds’ arm was degloved from the forearm in a car accident, he received an i-Linb, a $50k bionic arm controlled by muscle tension. [via Crunchgear]
Previously • Video: DEKA’s Luke bionic arm
• Fluidhand is the future of prosthetic arms
I don’t get why these sorts of things don’t have an ac adapter. I am sure he can type with it at a desk where it would not be any more a burden to be plugged in then to have his laptop plugged in. Similarly people in wheelchairs could carry around power supplies without much trouble too.
and a nice little wristwatch controller that allows you to slip it into power save mode when you are watching a movie or taking a nap and you don’t want your every twitch to waste some of your charge.
I’d want one that was all exposed chrome like a Terminator skeleton. Wicked cool. I mean, if you HAVE to have one. No way I’d CHOOSE to have one.
It’s a cyberpunk world charlie brown.
Spot on, AIRSHIP! Like you, if I HAD to have one, I’d want it to look wicked cool. “Lifelike” prosthetic limbs are at once too deep into the uncanny valley, and too “beige box” boring. They really are an unexplored territory for designers, aren’t they?
Slightly OT, but the idea of having a dead severed limb surgically re-attached gives me the heebie-jeebies; I think I’d actually prefer the prosthetic. Again, a choice NOBODY should have to make, least of all me, obviously
>>Again, a choice NOBODY should have to make, least of all me, obviously
eh, in 50 years, every one will be replacing their left arm with a cyborg arm that can punch through walls.
But what I find remarkable is that they have spent millions to develop these and charge 50k a pop. Yet the guy that made the aperture science ray gun on BBoffworld put more time into making his girlfriends Halloween costume look cool then these folks do an arm this guy will have to ware ever day for the next ten years. I mean, the battery pack is wrapped in like electrical tape or something.