30 Comments Add your own

• 1. Mark’s Daily Apple &hellip  |  February 22nd, 2008 at 8:04 pm

  […] Science Punk links us to a video about amazing new prosthetic arm technology. […]

• 2. Nicholas  |  March 10th, 2008 at 3:55 am

  This is amazing! Nice find. It’s really impressive to see him holding weight out in front of his body. Very cool.

• 3. me  |  March 10th, 2008 at 9:20 am

  what if it reads ur movement wrong? is a neat accomplishment ^^ just wondering if there are any possible glitches… and how long it would take to get use to controling and adapting the arm… kinda like problems ajusting to it that i am curious about…

• 4. NiK  |  March 10th, 2008 at 9:27 am

  Pretty sweet. I almost wanna get that. >.> if you know what I mean. lol.

• 5. eli  |  March 11th, 2008 at 7:04 am

  This is awesome… I want two. Then I would be like Goro. Only sexier.

• 6. Peter  |  March 11th, 2008 at 12:06 pm

  I am so cutting off my arms when these are made. Ill be a mechanical man.
  Now, if they could only remove emotions….

• 7. Frank the SciencePunk  |  March 11th, 2008 at 6:33 pm

  @ 5
  That was my first thought too - then just build some legs and make it all a little bigger!

• 8. Pete  |  March 13th, 2008 at 4:27 am

  Terrific! Way to go guys! this was a sight to see.

• 9. Viva  |  March 14th, 2008 at 4:00 am

  Finally putting our technology to good use.

• 10. Johan  |  March 17th, 2008 at 6:45 pm

  I’d rather have no arm than a big ugly metal arm.

• 11. Austin  |  March 18th, 2008 at 1:48 am

  I Love Dean Kamen

• 12. dustyBin  |  March 18th, 2008 at 2:00 am

  I want to lose an arm just to have one!

• 13. Charles Francis  |  March 18th, 2008 at 7:23 am

  I used to have a boss, Tom, at a VA hospital who lost an arm in WWII. As a handicapped VA employee, he was sometimes used as a guinea pig for testing new prosthetic arms. He was driving to the airport one day, followed immediately behind him by his boss, visiting from Washington, D.C. His boss later told me that he could see through Tom’s rear window, a test arm Tom was wearing attack him. Tom almost lost control of his car. When later he was asked what happened, Tom said that he had gotten an itch in his shoulder and in trying to relieve it, his muscle contractions had inadvertently signaled the arm to move in an undesired and frightening way. After this, Tom swore off being a test subject.

• 14. John Smith  |  March 18th, 2008 at 9:51 am

  I know ONE thing he hasn’t been doing for 25 years and he’s still not too old to do it once again :)

• 15. Dylan Cooper  |  March 19th, 2008 at 12:33 am

  Finally, some research is going into developing prosthetic arms. If only the government or some one else would invest more money into this kind of stuff. Based on the technology today I think we could develop an arm that has no delay and is very fluid with actions.

• 16. Jan  |  March 19th, 2008 at 7:56 am

  Haaahahaha… Fu_king Americans, Are proud of their inventions that were invented for people who lost their limbs by his stupid wars

• 17. Harold Shipman  |  March 19th, 2008 at 4:30 pm

  Considering this is a science related site; I’d have expected to see far less jaw-droppingly idiotic comments posted in response to this article. So, some of you clowns thought it appropriate to brag that you’d like to “loose an arm” in order to get one of these….O.K, why not loose a perfectly integrated, fully functioning limb so that you can replace it with something undeniably inferior to the real thing? Good call!

  Next up; some bozo would “rather have no arm than a big ugly metal arm” Thought that one through well didn’t you? Maybe you’d also rather be dumb than be a person who just talks sh1t!

  And finally; Joey NumbNuts with his cutting observations on the American People. Yeah fella, you really managed to hit on the irony of these inventions: “invented for people who lost their limbs by his stupid wars” … WOW, deep! and so accurate! We should just completely dissolve all global military powers and hug/link arms/weave ‘dreamcatchers’/paint unicorns and just generally all be best friends with each other. After all, as a race, us Humans sure are ready for that, aren’t we?

• 18. Martin  |  March 19th, 2008 at 5:02 pm

  “Considering this is a science related site; I’d have expected to see far less jaw-droppingly idiotic comments posted in response to this article.”

  Erm, yeah, idiotic, like posting under the name of mass-murderer Harold Shipman for example…

• 19. wbbigdave  |  March 19th, 2008 at 8:08 pm

  Heh thanks for that one martin.

  I think this is a great piece of technology, finally something which doesn’t look like a glorified captain hook outfit for amputees. Sometimes I am proud to be a human being when we can create things like this, most of the time I am ashamed though. The fact that we are constantly trying to kill each other (that’s all of us not just Americans or Israelis/Palestinians, we Brits are also guilty of some pretty heinous things, need I mention somalia? (oh I did))

  This and some of the work people do in the name of civil rights and peace I think is great, and the expanses at which our minds can work. The simple things on this for example are the most interesting, like the modular idea! genius, lets make it usable for all amputees! fantastic thinking…

  I just wish that Dean Kamen would bloody speak up..

  That is all

• 20. Manny  |  March 20th, 2008 at 9:35 pm

  Martin, please excuse me, but … DO you think that assassin is the only person with that name in the world? That was a pretty STUPID remark you did there for a person that had done an EXCELLENT post.

  For the other ignorants that “would like to get one of those” .. If you ever had a loved one in this situation, you would not be talking like that.

  And for the gentleman that about the “invented for people who lost their limbs by his stupid wars”, regardless if you agree with the wars or not, there ARE MANY people that have lost their limbs (or born without them) that can benefit from this technology.

  This is extremely great that finally the WORLD is moving in a good direction to make these people’s life a LITTLE better by giving them back some independence.

  Have a nice TWO ARMED life… but if you happen to need a replacement, I hope this one works as good as it promises.

• 21. bill hardy  |  March 20th, 2008 at 11:33 pm

  I was amazed by the superficial and insensitive nature of so many of the comments, with no appreciation for the immense impact this arm could have on the life and psyche of some one like the ‘test pilot’

• 22. Ben  |  March 23rd, 2008 at 9:19 pm

  That’s one cool hand.

• 23. mylex  |  April 4th, 2008 at 4:19 pm

  At the end when the female interviewer ask the guy fitted with the Luke arm what he could do with the arm, after his log pause I thought he was going to say “rub one out” instead of peal a banana.

• 24. Steven  |  April 17th, 2008 at 7:25 am

  Awesome invention!

• 25. Thamior  |  April 21st, 2008 at 7:43 pm

  @10 You’re so dumb it hurts

  Anywho that was one of the most awesome things I’ve seen in my life. You only have to wonder where do we go from here.

• 26. Computer random  |  May 4th, 2008 at 10:19 am

  OMG this is really cool and i see that it works quite well although will it be very good at lifting heavier weights such as heavy shopping bags, i saw that it was quite good at lifting all the other things but are the straps on his body enough to keep the arm stable a rigid?

• 27. crompton  |  May 5th, 2008 at 12:59 pm

  http://www.itmagz.com/admin/issuepdf/Bionics.pdf

  Do check the article. Awesome!

• 28. David  |  May 13th, 2008 at 9:50 pm

  @ #10… DEKA plan to use CT scanning and MRI to produce an envelope for the mechanics what will be encased in silicon and painted 3 dimensionally so as to produce a diametrically apposed partner to the individual’s other arm. for double amputees, they’ll simply reproduce statistical averages for body-type and skin tone.

  don’t be a fool and do some reading on a subject before you make ridiculous comments.

• 29. David  |  May 13th, 2008 at 9:52 pm

  @ #26… The device will be attached with pneumatic collars that will increase when the arm senses it to be under load… it will literally become more attached the heavier the load… pretty cool huh!?!

• 30. BK  |  June 15th, 2008 at 6:55 am

  I had a laughing fit when he aswered that question, I had my head on the desk and couldn’t stop laughing! “There’s seriously things I haven’t done in 26 years - Like what? - …um…pick up…a banana…peel it

Leave a Comment

Some HTML allowed:
<a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <code> <em> <i> <strike> <strong>

Trackback this post  |  Subscribe to the comments via RSS Feed