Originally published at: Woman with one hand unboxes her new 3D-printed prosthetic arm | Boing Boing
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It’s a common complaint that we didn’t get the joyous future we were promised by optimistic SF. But, as we see here, sometimes we do.
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This is a TRULY WONDERFUL THING!
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normally i don’t care for unboxing videos, but this is a special case. i hope it makes her very happy. it’s a life-changing thing.
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It’s exciting to see this field of invention being pursued by entities other than the old-line prosthetic makers. I’m sure this isn’t as durable as an Ossur arm, but it’s way more interesting for further development.
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Awww, that was truly lovely to watch.
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Sometimes, like this moment - these are the days of miracles and wonder
(bonus points if you get the song reference)
now I gotta get another hankie
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Medicine is magical and magical is art 
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That was pretty cool.
Just by coincidence, I listened to a podcast recently talking about prosthetics and what I hadn’t realised previously that the limitations are more in the software than in the hardware. The prosthetics are programmed with a limited range of movements and trying to do a set of movements can be difficult/impossible to link together. Also battery life, heat from the motors etc can impact how much it is used.
It will be interesting to see what her experiences are after 6 months and how much she uses the limb and how often she goes back to a ‘dumb’ limb. The nice thing is that software can be updated and hopefully it continues to improve her life.
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