Stories like this is all informal thought about watching one of the new episodes of Black Mirror. To bend your elbow past 90 degrees or raise it above your head, please upgrade your subscription plan. Not saying anything based off the article its just a gut feeling some of these soon to be real medical advances are going to allow our already scum bag ran Healthcare system to exploit impaired patients and their dependency of a tech device.
this post was submitted on 30 Apr 2025
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That's unfair 😡
I wounded if working people will be able to afford this... Given the amount of amputee veterans who lost limbs and veteran suicide rate...me thinks not... But sure it seems pretty nifty...just swell
It's also a massive risk when even the advanced ones have a high rejection rate of around 44% that's never talked about, and don't have nearly as much fine control as the media makes them out to be on top of being uncomfortably heavy for some people. While some do like them, a lot wind up preferring simpler ones or none at all.
Those articles hit close to home as someone hard of hearing. So much of disability activism is trying to get able people to respect what is comfortable for us to do rather than what is comfortable for able bystanders to see us do.
Like assistive devices are awesome, but they exist for the people they are used by. We consistently want comfortable independent function without being othered for it. Some will prefer subtle devices, others will ask for a fully controllable rgb option on devices that could be hidden easily.
Yes they would, in theory, because those prosthetics she's wearing were NHS-funded. I can see the waitlist to get ones like those being pretty fucking long though but hey, what NHS waitlist is not pretty fuck long these days anyway
Jenny Silverhand
I bet if we all try we can remember the name Tilley Lockey because it’s a pretty badass name and arguably cooler than bionic girl
You know what, wireless prosthetics could be useful even for those of us who have both hands.
We can basically go full General Grievous and do so many things at once
Hold your own arm and reach things further away behind the dryer.
Unfortunately the limitations there are probably in the brain not the limb. For example, can you competentely do two things at once with each of your hands?
Fair, but do you have to manipulate them at the same time? Most of the time we use our hands to hold something, or do very simple repetitive movements. This doesn't require much brain power to do, and is still very useful. For example, such arms could hold our bags, while our natural ones can do whatever else.
Any random individual? Maybe not. But one man bands exist and are completely reliant on this concept.
Fair, although I was more referring to fully separate tasks, one could argue a one man band is still broadly doing things in sync and broadly the same mental task.
It is a valid point that it could be learned with enough practice and dedication, but I think going above two would be exponentially harder.
So I don't need to cut off an arm for an upgrade?
Yay!
6 dudes at once!
AT THE SAME TIME?
Great, now my hands can get hacked.
Or become a dead weight, when the manufacturer stops supporting it
Or hack them yourself and become a keyboard and mouse gaming god
Is this the same girl we’ve been seen pictures of since she was a little kid? She’s probably so used to it by now it’s second nature. Though at first I thought it was Drew Barrymore from the thumbnail
Wild man. I was a little put off on how the lady was cutting a tomato while wearing it (it's an embedded promo clip for the Hero Pro).
She was holding the knife backwards and it just looked really weird, but then I realized she might not have had hands her entire life so she never learned the proper way to do it.
That's probably just to compensate for grip strength or range of motion with the knife.
By backwards do you mean point near the elbow? If so you can get more leverage that way.
The flesh is weak.
Now with 100% more grip strength.
Off the main topic of the article here, but that was a roller coaster of thoughts for me with the Title and the link thumbnail-
Kinda looks like Drew Berrymore in the thumbnail, so “Bionic Girl Debuts…” oh cool, new movie—-wait, Drew lost her arms and now has prosthetics? Opened the article…..Ohhh…
I had the same serious of thoughts, but also thought it said "blonde girl" and so wasn't as excited for the movie.
We're this much closer to The Addams Family
I want to see a rocket fist
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