“Bionic Girl” Debuts New Wireless Hands That Even Work When Detached From the Main Prosthetic

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• Allero@lemmy.today ⁨29⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

  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

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• stephen@lazysoci.al ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I wonder if data going into the hands is also wireless when they’re attached. Seems like a rather critical set of functions to go with wireless instead of a hard connection. Maybe wireless fidelity has improved enough that concerns about things like interference aren’t as big as they used to be.

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  • TranscendentalEmpire@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    I build and fit orthotics and prosthetics…this is mainly just a marketing gimmick. The myoelectric sensors that feed the data to the terminal device are built into the socket of the prosthetic. There’s no real reason to wear the socket without the hand, and you can’t operate the hand without the socket.

    The hard connections from the end of the socket and the hand are very durable, and they typically don’t really have any issues with wear. I don’t think fidelity is a big issue because there’s not a ton of information being transferred, the myoelectric sensors haven’t really changed a bunch in the last 40 years and the amount of information being sent is minimal.

    The biggest downside I foresee is that if you had different terminal devices, you’re probably going to have to pair them to the socket whenever you want to switch. When the traditional hard connection is just plug and play. That and you are just adding extra things to break in devices that are built to take a beating.

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  • owenfromcanada@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    There’s one other advantage to wireless here: a bionic prosthetic is moving a lot, and that’s not great for wire harnesses or connectors. Going wireless potentially allows for greater range of movement (or at least removes the engineering challenge of making it durable long term).

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  • Strider@thelemmy.club ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I wonder if they’re banking on wireless chips lasting longer than physical ports. Though making them wireless also means batteries and charging ports, two parts notorious for failing.

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    • unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      You could always do both and fall back on external power when the battery dies. Thats how laptops often do it.

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  • Quilotoa@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I can see a bunch of geeky engineers in the planning meeting. “Wouldn’t it be cool if it could detach and still work. Think of how she could mess with people.”

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    • HowAbt2morrow@futurology.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      This 100% accurate! Recreating the Addams Family scenes must have been part of the commissioning process.

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• OldManBOMBIN@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  We’re this much closer to The Addams Family

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  • CouncilOfFriends@slrpnk.net ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I’m getting more rocket fist vibes

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    • BeigeAgenda@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      

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• ramble81@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  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

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• tenacious_mucus@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Of 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…

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• Ste41th@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  All fun and games til her arm gets hacked lol

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  • owenfromcanada@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Damn, if she has any tech-savvy siblings, this would introduce a whole new level of “why are you hitting yourself”

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• Vertelleus@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  The flesh is weak.
  Now with 100% more grip strength.

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• TransplantedSconie@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  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.

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• DirigibleProtein@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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  • DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Image

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    • misterdoctor@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      For real. Not every stupid subreddit needs a Lemmy clone. Keep that eighth grade humor trash back where it belongs.

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