[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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3 回覆由Jim the Admin編輯: 12/12/2013 9:49:58 PMOne step closer to Deus Ex style bionic enhancements. I can't wait till they open the first L.I.M.B. Clinic.
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2 回覆Was anyone else thinking of Bionic Commando, or just me? Anyways, I wouldn't replace my limb unless I needed to. So, no, I wouldn't replace it voluntarily, but I'd replace a limb if needed.
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1 回覆由Progo編輯: 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.
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由Dick VanDick編輯: 12/12/2013 9:01:04 PMI bet within the next umm... 20-30 years from now? Yeah. I bet prosthetic limbs could turn out to be practical. Like for human enhancement. Hell in that time we might even develop practical bio. engineering. But in my life time I bet you good money if the world dosnt end in some kind of fall of humanity There are going to be Mechanical and Bio. Enhanced humans. Won't that be some freaky shit.
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2 回覆http://frockwriter.com/2011/11/paul-de-gelder-navy-diver-shark-attack-survivor-smoking-hot-swimwear-model
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7 回覆I don't know why prosthetics are skin-coloured. It just looks kind of creepy. Why not embrace your cool robotic limb for what it is?
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