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December 9th, 2009, 02:20
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Touch Bionics has been at this bionic prosthetics business for a while now, already providing i-Limb solutions to those deprived of the use of their hands (http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/17/touch-bionics-i-limb-bionic-hand/) or arms (http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/05/touch-bionics-has-i-limb-bionic-arm-to-go-with-your-bionic-hand/). The company's latest innovation is to reduce all that tech down to the level of individual fingers, with its freshly announced ProDigits being able to replace anywhere between one and all of your precious little piggies. Relying on a traditional myoelectric (http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/06/video-daito-manabe-returns-his-magical-dancing-spoons/) regime -- which reacts to muscle signals from the residual hand -- or pressure from the remnant finger for its input, this invention can even be tweaked by doctors (over Bluetooth) to adjust the finer motor functions on a per patient basis. Costing up to £40,000 ($65,000), these new prosthetics will be custom-built for each person, and there are plans to apply to have them made available through national health insurance -- in countries that are into that sort of thing. Video after the break.Continue reading Touch Bionics offers ProDigits for those missing their amateur ones (http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/08/touch-bionics-offers-prodigits-for-those-missing-their-amateur-o/)
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Touch Bionics has been at this bionic prosthetics business for a while now, already providing i-Limb solutions to those deprived of the use of their hands (http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/17/touch-bionics-i-limb-bionic-hand/) or arms (http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/05/touch-bionics-has-i-limb-bionic-arm-to-go-with-your-bionic-hand/). The company's latest innovation is to reduce all that tech down to the level of individual fingers, with its freshly announced ProDigits being able to replace anywhere between one and all of your precious little piggies. Relying on a traditional myoelectric (http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/06/video-daito-manabe-returns-his-magical-dancing-spoons/) regime -- which reacts to muscle signals from the residual hand -- or pressure from the remnant finger for its input, this invention can even be tweaked by doctors (over Bluetooth) to adjust the finer motor functions on a per patient basis. Costing up to £40,000 ($65,000), these new prosthetics will be custom-built for each person, and there are plans to apply to have them made available through national health insurance -- in countries that are into that sort of thing. Video after the break.Continue reading Touch Bionics offers ProDigits for those missing their amateur ones (http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/08/touch-bionics-offers-prodigits-for-those-missing-their-amateur-o/)
Touch Bionics offers ProDigits for those missing their amateur ones (http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/08/touch-bionics-offers-prodigits-for-those-missing-their-amateur-o/) originally appeared on Engadget (http://www.engadget.com) on Tue, 08 Dec 2009 21:09:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds (http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/).
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