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Breakthrough bionic hand restores amputee’s sense of touch
- Shinkei 13y agoThe diversity of sensors in the skin is impressive--it's not all sensed by a generic nerve. There are specialized mechanisms for vibration, heat, pressure and even pain. Here's a great summary with diagrams: http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/receptor.html http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/receptor.html
- frahs 13y agoI believe we've had technology similar to this for a long time, is there anything new with this in particular? I believe the biggest problem is the formation of scar tissue around the implanted electrodes. This reduces the strength of the electrical signals over time, and eventually the electrodes need to be adjusted.
- scribu 13y agoThere have been prosthetic arms that can be controlled by thought alone for a while. I think the new part is getting real-time feedback from the arms back to the brain.
- onion2k 13y agoI really hope the surgeon said "I am your father!" after the procedure. :)
- bgramer 13y agoNooooooooooo!
- namuol 13y agoWe're going to spend a century trying to hack our bodies until we realize we can just abandon them and stop worrying all the time.
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- czottmann 13y agoI hope it doesn't take a century, really.
- orthecreedence 13y agoI'm personally excited to be able to hold my breath underwater for 3 hours: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Respirocyte http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Respirocyte.
- af3 13y agoEPFL is cool... one day I will move there too :)