Touch Bionics offers ProDigits for those missing their amateur ones

Touch Bionics has been at this bionic prosthetics business for a while now, already providing i-Limb solutions to those deprived of the use of their hands or arms. The company's latest innovation is to reduce all that tech down to the level of individual fingers, with its freshly announced ProDigits being able to replace anywhere between one and all of your precious little piggies. Relying on a traditional myoelectric regime -- which reacts to muscle signals from the residual hand -- or pressure from the remnant finger for its input, this invention can even be tweaked by doctors (over Bluetooth) to adjust the finer motor functions on a per patient basis. Costing up to £40,000 ($65,000), these new prosthetics will be custom-built for each person, and there are plans to apply to have them made available through national health insurance -- in countries that are into that sort of thing. Video after the break.

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[zero1221 Posted Dec 9th 2009 2:43AM]

So the future will be like Ghost in the Shell after all.

In all seriousness though I'm glad people will be able to to regain the use
of there fingers.

[305BuddyLuv Posted Dec 9th 2009 7:32AM]

@zero1221

Yo, I have been saying that ever since Ghost in the Shell was released.
But we now will be but a memory when we get to the point they are in that Anime; because our society today is too focus on making money and getting rich.

[Sparky Posted Dec 9th 2009 2:45AM]

Yeah, but can you use the screen on the iPhone?

[WeirdHero Posted Dec 9th 2009 6:56AM]

Can you pick your nose with this?

[Dr Yusuf AlKindi Posted Dec 9th 2009 11:31AM]

What was that comment about countries with national healthcare? Sadly, people who could use this device, and would could be more productive, and who live in the USA will not get it, because here, in the greatest country on earth, we have too many morons, both citizens and in our legislative bodies who think that withholding medical care from citizens makes us less vulenerable to totalitarianism.


Sorry, but a little socialized medicine won't turn us into Soviet Russia.

[INsano Posted Dec 9th 2009 4:07PM]

I just want to be able to crush others' "precious little piggies" with my artificial hand. What will the PSI be? If these things can't bend steel bars the amputees and disabled are getting the middle finger. I don't know who is going to shell out 65k for these things, maybe the government will--they're not above a handout. I don't want to point any fingers but they'll have their hands full paying for this. There was some NGO that works with sponsoring these kinds of things but I can't quite put my finger on the name. A dictionary would be handy.