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Too bad this was such a shitty video... I'd like to see more on it.

Upvote because it's awesome, but almost downvote for two things:
1) It's not THE first, the video says it twice, it's ONE OF the first.
2) That they have to say that some of the 200 people it's been fitted to are soldiers who lost their limbs in Iraq... as if they are any more deserving than anyone else. It's an odd thing to so suggest that just because some of your limbs are on those that fought there that it's somehow more worthy.

Thats just plain cool.

spoco

1) That's what the YouTube description read. I changed it now.
2) I think someone who puts his life on the line and lost his arms because someone bombed them off is more deserving than a guy who lost them in an accident that was down to his own stupidity.

Maybe this can replace the invisible hand?

"Never. I'll never turn to the dark side. You've failed, your highness. I am a Jedi, like my father before me."

For the extra geeky they should outfit the outside to resemble Nintendo's power glove!

It also has an optional vibrating finger for her pleasure.

Most importantly, can you perform the final scene of "I, Robot" without making the screeching metal on metal sound?

Also campion, what percentage of people do YOU think lost more than one hand out of stupidity? Whoops, i just chainsawed a hand off accidentally whilst trying to balance it on my index finger. Perhaps i can do it with my other hand WHOOPS there goes another.

This can't be anything other than a vast minority, surely. I'd bet my arse that 99.9% of people who need a bionic arm are all equally deserving of the possibility

If you class a neglectful work injury as a "foolish" act, then you have to do the same for a soldier who doesn't follow SOP and gets limbs blown off.

(Just standing up for equality amongst people without limbs here)

I think they might have mentioned the soldiers wounded in Iraq because the Iraq war has had a very high amount of limb-loss casualties. This is due mostly to the body armor our soldiers wear. In previous wars, many of the soldiers that have lost limbs to explosions and shrapnel wouldn't have survived. The body armor has kept the death rate down, but the casualty rate is very high.

The veteran thing probably helps you get on the DARPA gravy train, which is no bad thing when it's for things that are actually useful. If the US government wants to throw a few hundred million dollars into developing bionic limbs, that's fine with me. It's just one step closer to my dream of having my brain implanted into a gigantic combat robot upon my death so that I can live on and fight superheros and such.

Gentlemen, we can rebuild him, we have the technology.

Sorry, I had a Bionic Man moment there.

Speaking as the parent of a child with a congenital amputation, based on the many hundreds of amputees I have met at conferences I think it is fair to say that there are many causes of amputation, and stupidity is rarely one them. Among leading the candidates (*not* in order frequency or anything):
1. Congenital amputation
2. Diseases such as a variety of cancers and meningitis
3. Accidents (work place and otherwise)
4. War

There seem to be a lot advances in upper-limb prosthetics just around the corner. I'm sure many of them will never pan out for broader use for one reason or another, but I hope a least a few of these technologies live up to their promise.

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