Dean Kamen has been hard at work producing what he calls his "Luke arm". There is no way that this isnt something needed, as todays prosthetics seem marginally better than the hook which we all grew up not wanting.
Kamen is the same Kamen that brought us the segway, a sadly upopular, yet still kind of cool in a geek polo kind of way invention.
Say what you want about the segway... but the fact of the matter is, allot of good technology is crammed into the thing. kind of like my pleo, only possibly, maybe, sort of helpful.
on the other hand(sorry) - the prospect of useful, articulate, robot prosthetics excites me. Aside from the obvious implementations for those who need them (amputees, paralyzed ppl, etc), it gets us one step closer to living a real live version of Cyberpunk.
Seen on:
http://spectrum.ieee.org/feb08/5957
http://robots.net/article/2461.html
