"If you push the skin on an amputee's forearm, they feel like you are pushing on their phantom fingers," Sebelius told CNN.When an amputee imagines moving a "phantom hand," signals are sent down nerve fibres in the remaining part of the amputated arm to activate muscles that would have moved the fingers.
They hope to have the new hand on the sales market in two years. But the problem with this is that it is only available for people who have lost their limb below their elbow. They hope to use this new technology to advance this idea into a full artificial arm. The only problem is that there aren't enough muscles to use as sensors to send the message to the brain. Who knows, maybe in the future people will be able to cope with life as they did before they lost their limbs.
I think this could be one of the best inventions of all time. This would make a lot of money, and could change lives....for a huge price!
ReplyDeleteGreat post, Coulter! This technology is amazing to me.
ReplyDeleteI'm going to forgive the lateness of this one. You've had three pretty good posts, and I would like to be able to give you full credit for at least one of them. Try to do a better job of staying on top of them during the next grading period.
One piece of advice: your quoted text refers to some "Sebelius" person. When a name like that is included in your quote, it's a good idea to let your readers know who your talking about. One way to do this is to add your own information to the quote, but bracket it so that the readers know it's your words and not part of the quoted text. For example:
..."they feel like they are pushing their phantom fingers," [researcher Frederic] Sebelius told CNN.
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