Prosthetic Hands

In 1974, there was a futuristic TV show called The Six Million Dollar Man The popular show lasted four years and featured the adventures of astronaut Steve Austin (Lee Majors). The show began with an astronaut about to die, but with science fiction and Hollywood's creative thinking to provide readily available interesting story line.

The promotion trailer for The Man of six million dollars would provide a basis for the show. Fans of the series Television Without doubt recall the words: "Gentlemen, we can rebuild, we have the technology. We have the ability to make the world bionic man first. Steve Austin will be that man. Better than it was before. Better. Stronger. Faster. "

Of course, only one bionic limb distant dream in 1974. However, ten years before the premiere of The Bionic Man on American television, the first investigations of a bionic hand had already begun in the Princess Margaret Rose Hospital in Edinburgh to help children affected by thalidomide.

Many decades later research, recently published a bionic hand has become the words of Touch Bionics CEO Stuart Mead, "one of the most devices in the world market weight prosthesis. "On synthetic called Touch Bionics i-LIMB hand and has won awards around the world throughout 2008.

Consider the i-LIMB Hand has won the Royal Academy of Engineering MacRobert Award, while Time magazine just recognized the device as one of the fifty best inventions of 2008. Nominal time of the invention Fourteen of the fifty chosen for recognition.

The prosthetic hand has five fingers of working separately, each equipped with its own motor. This makes it more versatile than the previous hands, which often seemed hooks, limited to simple opening and closing movements. The bionic hand is plastic; resistance, and fingers can easily unscrew the hand, making it easy to maintain. As a result, this device has a much broader range capabilities and use.

The i-LIMB hand has a grip to take hold of objects close and have a power control larger objects such as cups. It also has with a precision grip, in which the index finger and thumb together to pick up small things and keep them to perform tasks finer control. A grip in which the thumb and fingers close but still extended his index finger makes it easy to dial a phone.

However, this award-winning bionic hand may soon be obsolete. Consider that the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is pressing ahead with its proposed $ 55 million to create a controlled bionic arm and thought that duplicates the functions of a natural limb.

Last summer the DARPA team reached a major milestone when it finished Proto 2, an arm completely controlled mechanical hand of thought and articulated fingers that can perform 25 joint motions. This ability is close to the natural arm you can do 30 moves. The device can be bent at the elbow, rotate the wrist and shoulder, and open and close the fingers. A person wearing a Proto 2, he could still play the piano.

Next year, DARPA plans to ask the Food and Drug Administration to put your mind controlled bionic arm through clinical trials. This research is important for hundreds of disabled veterans returning from Iraq who have lost an arm or hand in the fighting, and thousands of others in need of members worldwide bionic.

However, these advanced bionic limbs still not approaching the ability to see in the TV show 1970. But modern science is very close to functional hands and arms to a real bionic man. As a result, the replenishment of the man accused of six million dollars as science fiction will never be the same. TV fantasy met reality as advances in prosthetics is to achieve international fame.

The Final Attempt at Artificial Hands

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