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The other day while I was watching an amputee climb the dizzy heights of Mt. Everest with his prosthetic leg, I was fascinated. That showed what the field of prosthetics can achieve. The latest news in the prosthetics industry is the new...
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Prosthetic devices are often tasteless, dehumanizing and designed in a very unaesthetic manner. Eames, the postmodern artist inspired designer Joanna M. Hawley to...
made popular Aug 12 2008
The developers of a female robot Aiko have also created a hand with five functional fingers, 15 movable joints, and feedback sensitivity. The hand doesn’t consume...
made popular Aug 11 2008
Technological developments in the field of software, communication and medicine have prompted and encouraged growth in the field of bionics. Prosthetic devices can now...
made popular Jul 7 2008
It is true that nothing can really replace a part of your body once you lose it. But, gone are the days when a man had to suffer because of his lost leg or hand, and he...
made popular Nov 27 2007
If a human being can receive a bionic body part, the animals also should not be deprived of the valued technology. Prosthesis will reach the new heights if Steve...
made popular Sep 27 2006
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The developers of a female robot Aiko have also created a hand with five functional fingers, 15 movable joints, and feedback sensitivity. The hand doesn’t consume...
made popular Aug 11 2008
The military’s medical community got a black eye that “we didn’t completely deserve” about conditions at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, the...
made popular Sep 13 2007
Normal prostheses work fine but they don’t ease the walking. An amputee with prosthetic ankle has to spend more energy is walking than a normal person. The reason...
made popular Jul 24 2007
The commercialization of prosthetic devices seems to have caught the pace as after the revolutionary i-LIMB bionic hand going up for sale, German company Otto Bock has...
made popular Jul 20 2007
This robotic hand can grasp delicate objects without crushing or dropping them! This artificial hand is designed with fingertip sensors in the UK. This latest...
made popular Dec 14 2006
The portable unit deigned by John Burke is efficient enough to ease the amputees when being carried to a hospital in the ambulance van or when kept in the hospital...
made popular Sep 1 2006
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