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12/12/2013 6:01:34 PM
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Bionic limbs are now a thing
[quote][url=http://www.theguardian.com/science/2013/dec/11/soldier-controls-bionic-arm-using-power-of-thought]A soldier whose arm was blown off by a rocket-propelled grenade in Afghanistan has become the first person in the UK to master a prosthetic limb controlled by thought.
Corporal Andrew Garthwaite, 26, has spent two years learning how to move the arm and grip objects after a six-hour operation to have the limb wired into his body at a medical facility in Vienna.[/url][/quote]
It's not exactly super advanced, and the aesthetics leave much to be desired, but it's a thing and has potential to become something great. Now people who have lost limbs are finally able reclaim some of what they lost, and maybe there'll come a day where cybernetic limbs are superior to our own flesh. How do you guys feel about this? Would you ever voluntarily replace your arm if a day came where cybernetic arms were better?
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1 ReplyEdited by Progo: 12/12/2013 6:58:16 PM[quote]The operation involved rewiring some of Garthwaite's nerves so that nerve fibres that once controlled his arm and hand movements instead [b]hooked up to his chest muscles.[/b] Electrodes placed on his chest pick up the muscle movements and convert them into signals that direct the prosthetic limb.[/quote] It's not truly thought controlled, it's more of a puppet. A truly mind controlled one would either take directions, or use the nerves from the lost limb. Still cool, but this is very old news in the medical community.
