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Friday, March 26, 2010
Touch Bionics
Patients who have lost one or more finger will soon have the opportunity to use artificial ones. A company called Touch Bionics founded in1988, dedicated their work on finding a solution for those who lost, arms, shoulders, wrists and hands. Touch Bionics has launched three key products, the i-LIMB Hand, ProDigits, and LIVINGSKIN. The i-LIMB Hand is the world’s first commercially available multi-articulating bionic hand. ProDigits, are the fingers that are individually powered. They are given to patients with partially severed fingers. LIVINGSKIN was created to resemble human skin by mimicking real human skin, containing three dermal layers. Each finger contains a miniaturized motor at the base of the finger, each being individually controlled using myoelectric impulses. Myoelectric impulses use the electrical signals created by the muscles in the remaining portion of the patient’s limb. Lastly, Touch Bionics offers tanning products that allow the patient to match the color of the prosthetic limb to the color of their skin making it look more natural.
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Doug,
Bionic limb replacement technology is remarkably growing. A unique aspect of the iLimb Hand from Touch Bionics is its multi-position motorized thumb also operating using myoelectric impulses. The thumb allows for grip pressure that other prosthetic hands have never had. Before, it was easy to pick up a Styrofoam cup, for example, and break it because of the difficulty in applying the right pressure. The individually controlled finger grip system also changes to allow different objects to be grasped. Lastly, because of the multi-position of the thumb the “power grip” (for a fully enclosed grip), “precision grip”(for small objects like grapes), and “key grip” (for turning a key or holding a business card) are possibilities that previous prosthetic hands could not provide.
http://www.gizmag.com/go/7661/
Did you also know there is a new invention coming out, similar to the the i-LIMB Hand, ProDigits, and LIVINGSKIN? At Rutgers, William Craelius is working on perfecting his bionic limb. Craelius believes "bionic technologies can be adapted for restoring some degree of almost any lost function". Also, he is working on Dextra, his invention in which he is"Creating a more natural integration between the limb and existing bone is going to be vitally important." Craelius believes a human feel is a crucial part of bionic restoration." He also states that we are moving at a fast pace, which means more advanced and complex machines will come out
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