Tag Archives: prosthetic

Who would have thought that an artificial limb could be designed to be aesthetically appealing? Japanese designer Shunji Yamanaka crafts prosthetic limbs specifically designed to suit the female physique.

Tanya Marie Vlach wants to be a cyborg. No, really. She's trying to raise enough money to fund development of a tiny webcam that could fit inside her prosthetic eye.

Japan has just discovered how to gain independent control over muscle movement by using hacked hardware. Should we be afraid?

Last year a young Austrian man named Patrick was the first person in the world to choose to have his hand amputated, and fitted with a bionic replacement. The results are impressive.

35-year old blogger Tanya Vlach lost one of her eyes in a car accident three years ago. Now she wants to make the best of it by replacing her prosthetic acrylic eye with an ‘eye cam’ – a webcam for her eye socket. She wants one capable of dilating with changes of light that also allows her to blink to ...

The Luke Arm is the world’s first real, fully-functional prosthetic arm. The video shows Dean Kamen and the progress his team has made with the prosthesis as they work with the arm in either a remote-controlled or thought-controlled method. The Luke Arm’s silicone-rubber inner-side straps work with the arm and distribute pressure at certain areas of the body during use. ...

Bodyhack’s Randy Dotinga was an attendant of the AAAS conference, one of the largest scientific conferences in the world, and discusses his experience sitting on the panel of the neural implants and prosthetics. The conversation quickly changed to the evolution of brain science. One matter discussed was the ability of a prosthetic to not only just be an artificial limb ...