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Three doctors and a nurse have been arrested for allegedly selling newborns after telling their mothers they had died.
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Posted by on under little piggies, amp nbsp, itn news, touch bionics, myoelectric, solutis, remnant, health insurance, bluetooth, signals, fingers, regime, email, doctors, bas, pers, insurance |
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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Touch Bionics offers ProDigits for those missing their amateur ones originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 08 Dec 2009 21:09:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Posted by on under mark siegel, graphic novel, huds, editorial director, labor of love, memoir, mermaid, comic, photographer, doctors |
Mark Siegel, the editorial director of the remarkable graphic novel publisher FirstSecond, has begun serializing his comic "Sailor Twain, or the Mermaid in the Hudson" on the web. This is Siegel's labor of love, a wonderful and weird comic that he's been working on for five years now. It's damned exciting to find it online! Sailor Twain (Thanks, Mark!) (Disclosure: I am currently in contract negotiations with FirstSecond for a graphic adaptation of one of my stories) Previously:The Photographer: gripping graphic memoir about doctors in Soviet ... Three Shadows: haunting and dreamlike graphic novel of love ......
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Posted by on under repetitive stress injuries, airmouse, engadget, power glove, wrt, wearables, multitasking, 17th century, whole lot, sensors, nbsp, ace, fingers, release date, nintendo, doctors, microsoft |
Controller-type devices baked into wearables have been around since the late 17th century (though we can't seem to recall one in particular that was made before Nintendo's
Power Glove), but frankly, we haven't seen a whole lot of innovation in this department over the past few years. Deanmark's AirMouse is hoping to change all of that, but if we didn't know any better, we'd say Microsoft kind of
called this concept first. Anywho, the strap-on mouse -- which doesn't seem to boast any sort of price or release date -- attaches on one's wrist and fingers in order to place sensors on areas where you'd normally mouse. Naturally, the company claims that this approach helps fend of
repetitive stress injuries and also enables a new level of multitasking, but until doctors start gluing these things to our hands at birth, we get the feeling that most folks will simply stick to what they know when it comes to cursor pushing.
Deanmark's AirMouse looks more like a ragged glove, less like an input peripheral originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 01 Feb 2010 01:02:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Posted by on under circulator, two heads, hopeful, prospects, doctors, germany |
Doctors aren't hopeful about their prospects for separating the fledgling fan, which was born recently in Germany and is named Double Circulator, but it seems to be doing pretty well, all things considered:
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