Dean Kamen's robo-arm awaits clinical trials
By Ryan Block 
posted Feb 2nd 2008 3:27PM
posted Feb 2nd 2008 3:27PM
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Where does the minigun get attached?
I vant to crush yur ballz !
Yur testicles...
...give dem to me...
Can the robo-arm use the force?
this thing is so cool that i would cut off one of my arms so i could attach this thing!
if you have ze 20 million, nubcake :P
How can they call this the Luke arm? Luke lost his right arm not his left.
Yes...this won't do at all
if i got one i would not put one of those fleshy rubber covers on it. looks cooler exposed.
Makes me think of Automail.
Well, so much for stopping Skynet...
This will bring a lot of hope to a lot of soldiers who have lost a limb serving our country. In everything Dean Kamen does, there is always the motive for positive change. usfirst.org
Can you replace prosthetic legs, with arms and become a crazy robo-monkey-man?
So exactly what car has it's ignition key on the left side, so this would actually be useful? Shouldn't it be easier to make 'start' buttons on cars that could be pressed with existing prosthetics? (or maybe I'm missing a point here)
then jerk off with your new arm
@ShadowMaker: Ever single person in the UK, Japan, and Australia is laughing at you like crazy.
@Alexander
dude...just because they have right hand side steering wheels doesn't mean that the ignition's on the left...it's still on the right...come ON
I think you mean @ ShadowMaker, Alexander was the one that pointed out how stupid he was for thinking what you have just said that Alexander thought.
My head hurts.
i want one
Thank you, Dean Kamen. Your robot makes me recall a
similar prothesis that one of my former medicine' s
professor has attempted to work up. It seems likely
that a such fitting an appropriate coat used as its
clad, a would be skin to hind the hardware inside,&
this "simili" skin's the most sophistical component
of a such high-technology, of course, the fore said
artificial skin should be made from a biological ma
terial(obviously optional)! The Dean Kamen's robot,
like other alike fittings, ought to be overwhelming
ly applaused because of their helpful skills mostly
indispensable in orthopedics and plastic surgery.
What a loser Kamen is, wasting his time on this crap. Why doesn't he go do something useful, like downsize an internet startup or float some junk bonds or something? It's like he's Thomas fricking Edison or something.
I wonder this technology would be useful in space.
Every time I read DARPA, I see DHARMA. Damn! I knew they were the ones on that boat! What have they done wit poor Hurley?
I think I remember seeing something similar on the cover of popsci somewhere around November 2005? Oh yeah... http://www.popsci.com/scitech/article/2005-11/neuro-controlled-bionic-arm
I don't remember seeing Dr. Kamen's name anywhere on it in 2005. He gets an awful lot of cred for inventing stuff that he doesn't actually invent.