A 50-year-old Swedish woman who lost her hand in a farming accident has been fitted with a cutting-edge prosthesis that has proved transformational.

  • @[email protected]
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    1311 year ago

    Looking forward to hearing that the arm stops working after company folds and nothing can be done because the software was closed source

    • @Dasnap
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      661 year ago

      And then someone on GitHub develops ‘Arm ReVanced’ which allows the user to shoot electric bolts.

        • @PeterPoopshit
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          Surely they wouldn’t charge a monthly fee to use something that probably “costs” over $1M. Except car manufacturers do that for stuff that costs $100k so I guess I wouldn’t put it past them

    • @Rooty
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      1 year ago

      Can we have one positive news article without the gloom and doom, please?

      • @A_Random_Idiot
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        201 year ago

        This is the problem.

        People think common sense is “doom and gloom”

      • @Nudding
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        111 year ago

        In this economy?

      • King
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        41 year ago

        Nooo dont mention inevitable outcomes butterflies and rainbows only please 🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡

        • ██████████
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          olay maybe this will dox me so ill be very General

          I am missing a limb, a very important and Big one

          and the only way i can keep my healthcare is if i stay in poverty

          so if i make money, i cant get no more help with my prosthetics, and then cant work, so end up again in poverty

          guess where i live guys

          • MaggiWuerze
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            21 year ago

            I am missing a limb, a very important and Big one

            First I thought penis, but then you said “big”.

            Jokes aside, it sucks that you’re stuck in this vicious cycle. Sadly poverty also keeps you from emigrating somewhere better.

        • @Rooty
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          Not everyone lives in a cyberpunk dystopia, there are state funded healthcare systems that mandate long term support for medical devices. Clown emoji yourself, buddy.

          • King
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            -81 year ago

            " My country is perfect and my existence is the center of the world so dont talk about your cyberpunk dystopia scenarios if I am around, you peasants " 🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡

      • @[email protected]
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        31 year ago

        Yeah, that one. Definitely wish it was FOSS so these people won’t be dependent on corporate intellectual property existing.

    • @biofaust
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      51 year ago

      I am looking forward to see the repo man collecting it since it was only a licensed company asset, especially since it is fused with her own tissues.

  • @pete_the_cat
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    651 year ago

    This is one of the coolest damn things I’ve seen in a while, she’s a true cyborg!

    I think the coolest thing is that she has a limited sense of touch.

    • @[email protected]
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      311 year ago

      There’s always lots of jokes about what a shame it is we don’t have the flying cars people dreamed about in the past but if you ask me things like this not being more ubiquitous is the real shame! This is incredible and I hope we see more in this space soon.

      • @pete_the_cat
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        71 year ago

        Totally agree, this makes a lot more difference than all the stuff they predicted in to 40s and 50s.

      • @pete_the_cat
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        11 year ago

        Nice! I figured someone had done something like that before.

      • @[email protected]B
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        11 year ago

        Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

        This one

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  • z3rOR0ne
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    1 year ago

    Cyberpunk 2077 here we come! I need me some fucking Gorilla Arms! Lets Fucking Go!! Lol, j/k

    • BeautifulMind ♾️
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      11 year ago

      fucking Gorilla Arms

      Flash forward to the 2A people demanding their right to Bear Arms

  • @SygheilB
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    81 year ago

    Cyberpunk or Ghost in the shell vibes.

    • ivanafterall
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      111 year ago

      Nobody said they expected it to fuse. Only that it just…did. There’s your origin/accident-in-the-lab scene.

  • @[email protected]
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    51 year ago

    How long has she been using it? It says

    • she’s two decades without hand, and now can use this
    • this one used for years
    • she has less pain issues now

    So has she been using this for two decades? Some years but less?

    Seems like they connected it after using more traditionals for a while?

    • @[email protected]
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      111 year ago

      No, it says she was without her right hand for decades, and that she got this one three years ago. So I assume she did not use traditional prosthetics?

  • MaggiWuerze
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    21 year ago

    I didn’t see it in the article, but that hand seems to be missing a wrist, right? So far “only” the fingers and the thump are driven.