http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/08/touch-bionics-offers-prodigits-for-those-missing-their-amateur-o/ Engadget Comments for Touch Bionics offers ProDigits for those missing their amateur ones http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/08/touch-bionics-offers-prodigits-for-those-missing-their-amateur-o/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/08/touch-bionics-offers-prodigits-for-those-missing-their-amateur-o/Dec 8th 2009 9:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/08/touch-bionics-offers-prodigits-for-those-missing-their-amateur-o/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/08/touch-bionics-offers-prodigits-for-those-missing-their-amateur-o/There's no way that wasn't intentional. ]]>Dec 8th 2009 9:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/08/touch-bionics-offers-prodigits-for-those-missing-their-amateur-o/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/08/touch-bionics-offers-prodigits-for-those-missing-their-amateur-o/Dec 8th 2009 9:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/08/touch-bionics-offers-prodigits-for-those-missing-their-amateur-o/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/08/touch-bionics-offers-prodigits-for-those-missing-their-amateur-o/Dec 8th 2009 9:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/08/touch-bionics-offers-prodigits-for-those-missing-their-amateur-o/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/08/touch-bionics-offers-prodigits-for-those-missing-their-amateur-o/You don't look to far into the future do you?
Free health care has it's cons- many of them. Just do some research, I'm not going to describe them here, because it's inappropriate. ]]>Dec 8th 2009 9:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/08/touch-bionics-offers-prodigits-for-those-missing-their-amateur-o/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/08/touch-bionics-offers-prodigits-for-those-missing-their-amateur-o/
so.. how is nationalised healthcare a bad thing?

btw, you wont get a reply to this until the morning, its 230am here.]]>Dec 8th 2009 9:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/08/touch-bionics-offers-prodigits-for-those-missing-their-amateur-o/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/08/touch-bionics-offers-prodigits-for-those-missing-their-amateur-o/Dec 8th 2009 9:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/08/touch-bionics-offers-prodigits-for-those-missing-their-amateur-o/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/08/touch-bionics-offers-prodigits-for-those-missing-their-amateur-o/Dec 8th 2009 9:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/08/touch-bionics-offers-prodigits-for-those-missing-their-amateur-o/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/08/touch-bionics-offers-prodigits-for-those-missing-their-amateur-o/First, the components alone on these things may be incredibly pricey. Second, these are custom built for each person. Third, that's how new technology works. If it isn't a great and novel advance, then no one will pay it anyway. If you think that some nigh-criminal profit is being made at that cost, then go ahead and invent and market your own better solution for cheaper.

This is putting a price on improving someone's quality of life, unlike with drug companies that put a price on life itself for many people. Universal health care debates can go elsewhere.]]>Dec 8th 2009 9:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/08/touch-bionics-offers-prodigits-for-those-missing-their-amateur-o/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/08/touch-bionics-offers-prodigits-for-those-missing-their-amateur-o/Right. Yeah, I'm just completely fucking with you.

You like to get in fights on the internet to prove your point, like 90% of everyone else. I don't give a fuck. I'm not posting them. ]]>Dec 8th 2009 9:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/08/touch-bionics-offers-prodigits-for-those-missing-their-amateur-o/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/08/touch-bionics-offers-prodigits-for-those-missing-their-amateur-o/Cons: Smokers.]]>Dec 8th 2009 11:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/08/touch-bionics-offers-prodigits-for-those-missing-their-amateur-o/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/08/touch-bionics-offers-prodigits-for-those-missing-their-amateur-o/Ya know, am with you 100%. The US government should be the first to be investing billions on this for the vets that lost limbs during the war. But yet they don't. Instead they give AIG half a billion so that AIG can pay their executives their million dollar bonuses.

The problem with this world is that if someone is not making money out of it; you will never see it. Thats why we will never be a Level 3 civilization.]]>Dec 9th 2009 7:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/08/touch-bionics-offers-prodigits-for-those-missing-their-amateur-o/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/08/touch-bionics-offers-prodigits-for-those-missing-their-amateur-o/Dec 9th 2009 8:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/08/touch-bionics-offers-prodigits-for-those-missing-their-amateur-o/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/08/touch-bionics-offers-prodigits-for-those-missing-their-amateur-o/
I'll be back.]]>Dec 8th 2009 9:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/08/touch-bionics-offers-prodigits-for-those-missing-their-amateur-o/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/08/touch-bionics-offers-prodigits-for-those-missing-their-amateur-o/Dec 8th 2009 9:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/08/touch-bionics-offers-prodigits-for-those-missing-their-amateur-o/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/08/touch-bionics-offers-prodigits-for-those-missing-their-amateur-o/Maybe...if Sarah Connor finally lets me into her sacred garden?
I hope I can impress her with my solid, shiny new....umm... parts.]]>Dec 8th 2009 9:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/08/touch-bionics-offers-prodigits-for-those-missing-their-amateur-o/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/08/touch-bionics-offers-prodigits-for-those-missing-their-amateur-o/Dec 8th 2009 9:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/08/touch-bionics-offers-prodigits-for-those-missing-their-amateur-o/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/08/touch-bionics-offers-prodigits-for-those-missing-their-amateur-o/Dec 8th 2009 9:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/08/touch-bionics-offers-prodigits-for-those-missing-their-amateur-o/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/08/touch-bionics-offers-prodigits-for-those-missing-their-amateur-o/Dec 8th 2009 9:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/08/touch-bionics-offers-prodigits-for-those-missing-their-amateur-o/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/08/touch-bionics-offers-prodigits-for-those-missing-their-amateur-o/Dec 8th 2009 9:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/08/touch-bionics-offers-prodigits-for-those-missing-their-amateur-o/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/08/touch-bionics-offers-prodigits-for-those-missing-their-amateur-o/Not true. My legs cost about £2000 each, and they are pretty much the most basic type. They need to be replaced every few years too.
I'm a below the knee amputee, so no complex knee joints, no powered joints. I have seen some specialist legs made at the place where I get mine done for anything from neutral buoyancy swimming legs with angled ankles to a couple of soldiers who got a pair of clip on legs so they could still do parachute jumps. All free under the NHS system. And I know they supply computerised knees that sense when they need to bend.

The hand clinic is in a different area, So I don't know much about the range they offer. And hands are obviously much more complex prosthetics. So more expensive.

Free health care.. who needs it eh? ]]>Dec 9th 2009 2:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/08/touch-bionics-offers-prodigits-for-those-missing-their-amateur-o/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/08/touch-bionics-offers-prodigits-for-those-missing-their-amateur-o/Dec 8th 2009 9:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/08/touch-bionics-offers-prodigits-for-those-missing-their-amateur-o/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/08/touch-bionics-offers-prodigits-for-those-missing-their-amateur-o/http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/sciencenotfiction/files/2009/05/fringe-hand-web.jpg]]>Dec 8th 2009 9:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/08/touch-bionics-offers-prodigits-for-those-missing-their-amateur-o/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/08/touch-bionics-offers-prodigits-for-those-missing-their-amateur-o/Dec 8th 2009 9:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/08/touch-bionics-offers-prodigits-for-those-missing-their-amateur-o/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/08/touch-bionics-offers-prodigits-for-those-missing-their-amateur-o/Dec 8th 2009 9:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/08/touch-bionics-offers-prodigits-for-those-missing-their-amateur-o/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/08/touch-bionics-offers-prodigits-for-those-missing-their-amateur-o/Yeah I agree. I am paralyzed from the chest down and I can tell you first hand how "precious" your limbs really are. ]]>Dec 8th 2009 11:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/08/touch-bionics-offers-prodigits-for-those-missing-their-amateur-o/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/08/touch-bionics-offers-prodigits-for-those-missing-their-amateur-o/Dec 8th 2009 9:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/08/touch-bionics-offers-prodigits-for-those-missing-their-amateur-o/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/08/touch-bionics-offers-prodigits-for-those-missing-their-amateur-o/Dec 8th 2009 10:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/08/touch-bionics-offers-prodigits-for-those-missing-their-amateur-o/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/08/touch-bionics-offers-prodigits-for-those-missing-their-amateur-o/Dec 9th 2009 10:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/08/touch-bionics-offers-prodigits-for-those-missing-their-amateur-o/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/08/touch-bionics-offers-prodigits-for-those-missing-their-amateur-o/Dec 8th 2009 10:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/08/touch-bionics-offers-prodigits-for-those-missing-their-amateur-o/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/08/touch-bionics-offers-prodigits-for-those-missing-their-amateur-o/
its also prosthetic. lol ]]>Dec 9th 2009 12:08AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/08/touch-bionics-offers-prodigits-for-those-missing-their-amateur-o/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/08/touch-bionics-offers-prodigits-for-those-missing-their-amateur-o/
Christ, that name is Cheesy]]>Dec 9th 2009 12:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/08/touch-bionics-offers-prodigits-for-those-missing-their-amateur-o/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/08/touch-bionics-offers-prodigits-for-those-missing-their-amateur-o/
Anyways, I think a (robotic) finger would be pretty hard to use, I still prefer to wait for a more organic solution, like something that can actually grow to become a real finger, not some robotic/plastic thing that I need to remove when I shower or whatever...

Anyways, I am only 22 years old, hopefully by the next 10 years or so the world of medicine will be advanced enough to make a completely natural replacement.]]>Dec 8th 2009 10:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/08/touch-bionics-offers-prodigits-for-those-missing-their-amateur-o/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/08/touch-bionics-offers-prodigits-for-those-missing-their-amateur-o/Dec 8th 2009 10:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/08/touch-bionics-offers-prodigits-for-those-missing-their-amateur-o/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/08/touch-bionics-offers-prodigits-for-those-missing-their-amateur-o/Dec 8th 2009 10:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/08/touch-bionics-offers-prodigits-for-those-missing-their-amateur-o/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/08/touch-bionics-offers-prodigits-for-those-missing-their-amateur-o/Dec 8th 2009 10:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/08/touch-bionics-offers-prodigits-for-those-missing-their-amateur-o/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/08/touch-bionics-offers-prodigits-for-those-missing-their-amateur-o/Dec 8th 2009 10:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/08/touch-bionics-offers-prodigits-for-those-missing-their-amateur-o/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/08/touch-bionics-offers-prodigits-for-those-missing-their-amateur-o/+1 on comment lol]]>Dec 9th 2009 2:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/08/touch-bionics-offers-prodigits-for-those-missing-their-amateur-o/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/08/touch-bionics-offers-prodigits-for-those-missing-their-amateur-o/Dec 10th 2009 1:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/08/touch-bionics-offers-prodigits-for-those-missing-their-amateur-o/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/08/touch-bionics-offers-prodigits-for-those-missing-their-amateur-o/Dec 8th 2009 11:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/08/touch-bionics-offers-prodigits-for-those-missing-their-amateur-o/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/08/touch-bionics-offers-prodigits-for-those-missing-their-amateur-o/Dec 8th 2009 11:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/08/touch-bionics-offers-prodigits-for-those-missing-their-amateur-o/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/08/touch-bionics-offers-prodigits-for-those-missing-their-amateur-o/Well - they can put electrodes on / in your muscles which would allow them to use a computer interface to control each muscle - and in turn move your legs. They're doing some great research right now on brain input through sensors - you can imagine if they can attach those two you could bypass your (assumedly) severed spinal cord and have your brain control your legs again. Of course this is a way off right now, and they may figure out how to use iPS cells (topic of my research) or neural progenitors to repair the spinal damage before then. Nerves send electrical signals - and we're getting pretty darn good with electronics. I Imagine a spinal bypass / repair will be available within 25 years. Also - I am sorry for your loss of mobility. I hope to be involved with the Medical Device industry once I graduate :)]]>Dec 9th 2009 2:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/08/touch-bionics-offers-prodigits-for-those-missing-their-amateur-o/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/08/touch-bionics-offers-prodigits-for-those-missing-their-amateur-o/Dec 8th 2009 11:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/08/touch-bionics-offers-prodigits-for-those-missing-their-amateur-o/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/08/touch-bionics-offers-prodigits-for-those-missing-their-amateur-o/Dec 8th 2009 11:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/08/touch-bionics-offers-prodigits-for-those-missing-their-amateur-o/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/08/touch-bionics-offers-prodigits-for-those-missing-their-amateur-o/Dec 8th 2009 11:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/08/touch-bionics-offers-prodigits-for-those-missing-their-amateur-o/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/08/touch-bionics-offers-prodigits-for-those-missing-their-amateur-o/
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You mean, almost every other country in the world?]]>Dec 9th 2009 2:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/08/touch-bionics-offers-prodigits-for-those-missing-their-amateur-o/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/08/touch-bionics-offers-prodigits-for-those-missing-their-amateur-o/Dec 9th 2009 2:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/08/touch-bionics-offers-prodigits-for-those-missing-their-amateur-o/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/08/touch-bionics-offers-prodigits-for-those-missing-their-amateur-o/Dec 9th 2009 2:25AM