> Love and Peace or Else: Reserch for Blood Diamond project: Prosthetic arms

Wednesday, September 16, 2009

Reserch for Blood Diamond project: Prosthetic arms

Jan, here's another one for your collection! Stumbling around i found Giho Lee's super-cool Prosthetic Arm Projects, which is a series of little wire thingys that help people that only have hooks for hands with everyday tasks, like using an I-Phone or a keyboard mouse.
the annoying thing is, most of the pictures i could find of prosthetics were of more modern, which have actual hands. these seem more common now in developed countries (showing how behind some of these countries are).

i looked around and found all sorts of cool stuff though...here are some highlights!

source:http://www.switched.com/tag/prosthetic (all sorts of stories about futuristic prosthetics)
look at the design of that arm! it looks like something from sci'fi. future, here we come!
a "sustainable" prostetic arm, as shown at "Compost-modern" and fetured on the blog "Core77"
(Jan, tottally blogroll these people. even if their presentation video put me to sleep, I know they will make you happy.)

finally! it's not a good picture (and it's probably on this blog illegally) but that's the model i'm looking for. i'll edit the design of my pendant to reflect it a bit more.

here's a simple illustration of the arm and how it works- from a site about child amputees.

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