Prosthetic tech company Touch Bionics has created the i-limb ultra-revolution prosthetic hand featuring a rotating thumb, five individually powered fingers, a rotatable wrist and aluminium chassis.
The company claims that this is the most dextrous prosthetic hand ever made and the first upper limb prosthesis which can be controlled by an iOS app. The Quick Grip app allows the user to control the hand’s using their smartphone and choose from 24 different grips. The cache of grips can even be customized for daily tasks, e.g.. wearers could make a work folder for on-the-job gestures such as typing, paper-holding and mouse-clicking.
The limb can also be controlled by using muscle signals to shift into a series of pre-set patterns. It achieves this by using electrodes in the wrist to pick up electrical impulses created by contracting muscles, which are interpreted by a computer in the back of the hand.
Each of the fingers bends at the joints and can be adapted to around any shape of object that the owner wants to grasp. Powered by a battery, the device is so technical that users have to undergo rigorous training to get the most out of it.
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