Science is just so awesome.

FU*$ YEAH!!!! GO SCIENCE!!!

Way too emotive. "Nerves that will give the hand feeling. The human touch." No shit? Calm down ffs, it's emotional enough without all the sappy dialogue.

I think id rather have a robot hand in next 10-50 years robot teck is going to be so much better Evan if u dont get fealing back from it it be way cooler having interchangeable arms than some half dead arm that requires you to take drugs and barely works.



allso video ruind by stupid comentry , idoit mother , and general stupid shit. would have been nice if they went over the process in more detail and clearly exsplaind the real world exspectations of function after 2 years.

Is it still masturbation if it's with someone else's hand? 😉

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The future is now?

It would have to work pretty well to be worth all the anti-rejection meds you'd have to take forever, and that seems unlikely. However, big picture, you have to start somewhere and this is a pretty good start. Doesn't seem all that unlikely that fifty years from now or so they'd be able to give you one that worked good as new. Maybe even one grown from your own DNA or harvested from the identical twin lobotomized in utero and placed into storage that all the rich people will have.

Neat stuff. Today I read an article that showed that carbon nanotubes behave the same way human (neuron) synapses do. The implications of that in 20-30 years is stupefying; for humans, computers, electronics (including artificial hands that would have feeling--but, you could tone down pain to a "notice" level and not the current, "holy ^%&king %^&$"" level), and possibly A.I. (like neural nets, but brains have around 10 billion neurons each with 10k or so synapses each; it'll take awhile...).

Brain reconstruction (obviously you'll be missing the old stuff, but still)?

It's very hard for me to say, having two healthy hands, but with what I know now, I'd stick with the stump.

I've seen what happens months down the road, even after it initially seems as though the hand won't be rejected. The hand slowly begins to die, despite all the INTENSIVE regiments of anti-rejection medication the patient has to take for the REST OF THEIR LIFE (as many of you have pointed out). Skin peels, it rots... such a nightmare. The first hand transplant patient had his removed, IIRC.

Best they focus on something mechanical/robotic. I shiver at the thought of having to cope with a dying transplanted appendage.

Yah but it might work.

>> ^Arkaium:
The first hand transplant patient had his removed, IIRC.That's because he was an idiot who stopped taking his meds. Immunosupressive treatments are improving all the time are are quite a way ahead of where they were even ten years ago

I remember reading about a double hand transplant last year in Louisville, KY.

http://www.whas11.com/news/local/Louisvilles-first-double-hand-transplant-wraps-up-at-Jewish-Hospital-101487424.html

Become an organ donor everyone! You're gift can have a life changing or life saving impact.

HIGH FIVE!

Oh, sorry. It'll grow back!

Is it wrong to have expected an Onion skit with a completely different outcome?