Touch Bionics has i-LIMB bionic arm to go with your bionic hand

The mad scientists from Touch Bionics are at it again. After delivering their i-LIMB bionic hand last year, they're moving on up the, uh ... body and are announcing their sophomore effort: the i-LIMB bionic arm. Like their bionic hand, the arm is controlled via learned muscle movements picked up by electrodes placed on the user's chest and is covered in a "realistic cosmetic skin." The only real problem with the i-Limb bionic arm isn't so much a problem in our books, as it is an advantage: it's stronger than your old-fashioned human arms. Of course, with that power comes a whole bunch of ethical and safety concerns. Is there an ethical problem with exacting revenge on that arm-breaking arm wrestling arcade game?

[Pickeral_Lake @ Jan 27th 2008 7:44PM]

As a female arm amputee, I find your remarks disgusting - I am looking forward to having something other than a hook - that alone has it's own jokes. But, seriously - GET A LIFE!! I'm looking forward to no more stares at my hook! This is serious to many of us.

[debbie meek @ Feb 1st 2008 8:17PM]

I lost my hand a few years ago in an auto accident and never realized how much one needs two hands. Luckily, I'm right handed and lost my left but my right hand has suffered from having the work of two. I'm hoping this will be better than the myoelectric hand that was heavy and malfunctioned all the time. Every time (almost)we have a storm my myo-hand would start going crazy. Not dangerous crazy but opening and closing without my having triggered it. I,for one will be checking this out. Sounds pretty new but should have the glitches ironed out within the next few years, unlike the myoelectrc.

[debbie meek @ Feb 4th 2008 3:31PM]

Pickeral, have you gotten any info on this?

[Flashpoint @ Jan 5th 2008 10:59PM]

good luck getting that through airport security.

[Sunjay @ Jan 6th 2008 2:42AM]

No chance of getting this through considering the TSA idiots have trouble with pies and small bottles of liquid and such...

[Sam @ Jan 5th 2008 11:04PM]

looks like something from the terminator

[reevs @ Jan 5th 2008 11:10PM]

The artist's rendering looks a lot like a shot from empire strikes back.

[nate @ Jan 5th 2008 11:17PM]

maybe that's because it is
:o

[diet @ Jan 5th 2008 11:18PM]

O RLY?

[marcus @ Jan 6th 2008 1:52AM]

YA RLY!

[paul34 @ Jan 5th 2008 11:26PM]

Hello, nice to meet you human. I shall greet you with your traditional "handshake."

:crushes man to death:

Sorry, human.

[elithemicrowave @ Jan 5th 2008 11:30PM]

Funny shit man....funny shit.

[rxse7en @ Jan 5th 2008 11:32PM]

DARTH VADER IS LUKE'S FATHER! HA!

[Ian @ Jan 5th 2008 11:43PM]

i think ur just a FEW years too late :P

[Flashpoint @ Jan 5th 2008 11:41PM]

I'm not sure if I could trust one of these in a masturbation scenario.

[DonatoM3 @ Jan 6th 2008 12:00AM]

Please with a bionic arm the women will be all over you. No need to masterbate at all.

Or you could just send every other guy in the bar to the hospital and increase your odds that way.

[jbcaro @ Jan 6th 2008 12:26AM]

I often wonder why the bionic arm must be clamped down so tightly during these open limb excursions.

[derX @ Jan 6th 2008 12:40AM]

DAMMIT, AN iLimb?!

This stinks of Apple.

Remember, kiddies, if your iLimb touches any third party anything, Apple'll brick it.

[Chris @ Jan 6th 2008 12:43AM]

The force is strong with this one...

[Student Driver @ Jan 6th 2008 1:04AM]

Finally, a real solution to my prostitute control and deployment issues. Gots to keep the b1tches skraight, u know...

[wompa164 @ Jan 6th 2008 4:23AM]

We fear change.

[Flashpoint @ Jan 6th 2008 8:34AM]

As long as you've got a free hand, why don't you scratch ma balls.