advances in prothetics

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Here is an article about advances in prosthetics, from Smithsonian, again, you guessed it.

A couple of quotes from the article:

David Gow, a Scottish engineer who created the i-limb, says one of the most significant accomplishments in the field of prosthetics has been making amputees feel whole again, and no longer embarrassed to be seen wearing an artificial limb. “Patients actually want to shake people’s hands with it,” he says.

The thing Kane likes most is the way it makes him feel. “Before, the looks I got were an ‘Oh, what happened to him? Poor him,’ sort of thing,” he says as we sit in a London café. “Now, it’s ‘Ooh? What’s that? That’s cool!’” As if on cue, an elderly man at the next table chimes in: “I gotta tell you something, it looks amazing. It’s like a Batman arm!” Kane does a demonstration for the man. Such technology is as much about changing the way people see him as it is about changing what he can do.

Read more: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/ideas-innovations/The-Insane-and-Exciting-Future-of-the-Bionic-Body-220574691.html#ixzz2d0UfMS5d
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