Just a quick link I came across over the weekend before the hurricane knocked out my power. In the video below, we see Chloe Holmes displaying her new prosthetic hand, a $62,000 piece of technology that allows her to move each digit independently of one another through sensors embedded in the sleeve. Chloe lost her fingers at age 3 as a result of septicemia, a complication from chicken pox.
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The Medical Benefits of Body Modification » Cyborgology — March 9, 2012
[...] have highlighted some of the early prosthetics of the medieval period, and I have also highlighted ‘The Bionic Girl’ Chloe Holmes, who received a powerful prosthetic hand with independently articulating digits. And in terms of [...]