Video: Teenager's new i-LIMB prosthetic hand is super cool
By Laura June 
posted January 22nd 2009 1:29PM
posted January 22nd 2009 1:29PM
We've seen the i-LIMB plenty in the past, but we have to say that seeing it in action -- newly installed on teenager Evan Reynolds -- is pretty impressive. The prosthetic is so sensitive that Reynolds can grip a small bottle of water, no problem. We assure you: it's pretty cool.
Agreed. Enough already.
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omg, Jax!
I think its awesome...as long as it doesn't mean that one day skynet will become self-aware...
Awesome!
Why can't I post on Obama's thread?
Because Mr. President is very busy right now, and he doesn't want to be disturbed.
Seems promising... Hope that'll help some people out :D
Does anyone have a link to the movie that actually has a decent server hosting it? Jesus, is this video being hosted on a cell phone?
Are you Sarah Connor?
That's freakin amazing.
this arm may be super cool but i would rather have my own.
Rather amazing, but we shouldn't be too surprised, Darth Vader is this guy's father. Bionic hands/arms run in the family. Now he's just like Dad and his brother Luke.
Seriously, this really is incredible, and the technology will only get better.
I'm for any technology that helps a young man regain his self image... makes me proud of our generation.
My mind just melted
Er....JWC I mean. now kids, dislexia is not as funny as you might think =/
We can we stop naming stuff i-This and i-That?
Perhaps we should call it the Eee-limb?
If I heard him correctly, the accident 'de-gloved' his arm - ripping the skin and muscles off the bone. Brutal.
Yeah glad he didn't show pictures to be honest
I do like the M22, just wish it was touch screen.
He's cute.
Ok, guys in the audience.. you know that trick where you sit on your hand for 10 mins.... c'mon, don't tell me you weren't thinking the same thing!
Yeah, until he accidentally gets too excited and "degloves" that part of his anatomy. But good think they already have prosthetics for that...
This is incredible technology. I am not sure why everyone in the comments section is making so many jokes about this, clearly this is a really serious technology for amputees and I hope that it makes a big difference in the lives of people who have lost hands or arms due to various illnesses or accidents.
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I disagree.
To talk about past experience thats a completed action and relevant in the present, the present perfect is the appropriate grammatical form. You cannot use the past participle (3rd form) without either of the auxiliary verbs 'have' or 'has'.
Form: Subject + have/has + past participle.
If you use the past past participle without the relevant auxiliary it's not English your speaking. You seem to be referring to the way certain words and grammatical forms disappear over time, e.g. the modal auxiliary 'shall' is rarely used these days to denote future intent ('will' and 'going to' have sufficed for the modern generation of English speakers.) The present perfect form is almost certainly not going to be an example of this it is used by the vast majority of speakers and in almost all written English, the only examples being the uneducated or some teenagers desperately trying to sound cool.
It was obviously a typo anyway!
(I bet there's a grammatical or spelling error above)
I forgot the apostrophe in that's. Bollocks!
The iLimb is really nice, but not sturdy, really loud (five motors going uii uii all the time), and really, relly expensive. I have evaluated this one and for now have to conclud that my hook is, well, better ... http://www.swisswuff.ch/tech/?p=46