I think if you survive the tragedy of losing a limb, the world owes you the opportunity to get super bionic arms that can work remotely.
I’ve lost my penis in the war. I’d like an exact replica prostetic please! That’s right, 12 inches, thick as a beer can. I said exact replica after all!
Oh, and since it’s prostetic anyways, maybe we can build it with vibration, and led gamer lights? Oooh! Ooh!!! And make it shoot off fireworks! And make a laser light show that reacts to music!!!
What? I said exact replica! My penis could do all this already!
12 inches, thick as a beer can
That can be only handled by a select few. I personally like the feeling of overcoming large objects, others are not as amused by that. Larger objects are also accelerating the recipient’s time for adult diapers, especially if done daily. 4-6 inches are better for most people.
12 inches, thick as a beer can
Ouch
No mayo dispenser?
In 2017 there was a game called Splatoon. Without getting too into the weeds, just know it’s a first person shooter made for all ages. Two teams of 4 splat each other with ink, and try to win the game.
They also had things call splatfests. You pick a team for the weekend, and every win you get helps your team in the long weekend war known as a Splatfest.
Well they had “Team Ketchup (is better than Mayo)” and “Team Mayo (is better than Ketchup)”
I picked team Ketchup. Unfortunately for north America, Team Mayo won. Team Ketchup won the popular vote by a landslide (I think it was like 70% if I remember right), but the solo battles, and team battles were close, but awarded to Mayo.
Still, I stand by Team Ketchup.
Without getting too into the weeds,
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Speak for yourself you ketchup dog!
This is very much in the realm of it has to work pretty perfectly to be worth the fuss. As neat as these are most people prefer the simple dumb prosthetics as they are predictable and reliable. The fuss and imperfections and charging etc that come with these make them look cool in demos but most people abandon them in trials.
Yeah… Prosthetic companies spend lots of money on marketing to make people think we’ve advanced a lot further than we have.
Myoelectric limbs have been around for decades, and though the terminal devices have gotten more life-like, it’s arguable if they’ve gotten any more functional.
Myoelectric limbs are just exhausting to use for more than a couple minutes at a time. You have to concentrate and flex individual muscle groups in your forearm to get a controlled response.
I have patients with mechanical upper limb prosthetics that are a lot more functional than I’ve ever seen anyone with a powered limb.
So… just like tech companies in general?
Oh yeah but if I can get insurance to buy it I’m going to have this as a backup. If just as a party trick.
God please don’t tell me it’s on the 2.4 GHz band, last thing I’d want is my hand to start getting weird near a smart house or a set of traffic lights.
That’s cool and all, but remotely controlled could also become remotely controlled. I for one prefer to be the only one in charge of my limbs at all times.
I’m sure it does some sort of security handshaking when you connect
I’m sure everything secure has 0 exploits
Whoosh!
The L in Lemmy stands for “Literal”.
Now I’m picturing the hand asking how many fingers it’s holding up.
Just the middle one.
Wireless is overrated anyway. I would want a winch/cable and copper signal line.
That way I can grab things at the bottom of the well and retract the hand.
If a full robot body were available, I’d jump on it right away, but ONLY if it has absolutely no way to wirelessly communicate. Absolutely the sole way of interacting with the software would be a single USB port inside a panel in the body with a physical lock.
Tightbeam line-of-sight IR laser should be the only way to control stuff like this. And I realize that means I can’t control my hands if they are in another room, which is a delta of 0 from the current human condition.
Why not just an electrical connection?
There’s a pretty good movie to be made here.
B plot has a bunch of injured vets, many with these limbs, picketing congress and marching around inside the offices trying to petition lawmakers about getting benefits that they’re owed but are being stalled by budget talks.
A plot could be a spy thriller, John C Everyman investigating evil tech bro over whatever nonsense. Finds out all too late that the evil tech bro owns the company manufacturing those limbs, and wants to install a puppet government. The only way to stop them is to literally shut them all off remotely. The vets are running all over, unable to stop themselves, attempting to lock down and assassinate representatives.
Everything resolves as hundreds of injured veterans literally fall limp all over the halls of Congress. The media eats up the protest, the vets get their benefits, John C Everyman goes on to pick up another case. Evil Tech bro lives to plot again. Or dies being ripped to shreds by his own limbs. Who cares.
In reality, he’d live to plot again and suffer no consequences.
Good thing this is fiction :)
Also, extra points if the movie ends by replacing the proprietary backdoored software with Linux :P imagine having prosthetic cyberlegs and being able to say you run on Arch (btw)
Yeah that’ll be an Easter egg joke at the beginning of the movie. There’ll be a guy jogging on the national Mall talking to his jogging partner about how he jailbroke his limbs and now he runs on Arch. He’ll still be jogging at the end of the movie.
Maybe he could show up in a critical moment to save the day?
We’re getting tantalizingly close to Repo: The Genetic Opera
“From the moment I understood the weakness of my flesh, it disgusted me…”
There is an escape-room puzzle with this concept, I can feel it.
The opportunities for Adams Family costumes with Thing.
Zombie costumes
Those usually aren’t nerve controlled. If you have a stump left of the lower arm, sensors can detect muscle movement, and clenching your hand does move some muscles in your lower arm close to the elbow.
Source: My dad had a prosthetic left arm. His stump was similar to the ones in this video.
I don’t know if these are or aren’t nerve controlled, I suspect it’s going by the muscle movement you described
But let’s assume they are in fact controlled by nerves
Most of the movement of your fingers actually comes from muscles in your forearm pulling on tendons that go into your fingers.
So assuming you wanted to hook a prosthetic up to the same nerves and such you’d have used for your real fingers, you’d still probably end up flexing your forearm muscles because that’s where those nerves go
Technically all prosthetics are “nerve controlled”, but what you are describing is called nerve integration. Which is possible, but very rare and mostly experimental when it comes to prosthetics.
What she is wearing is called a myoelectric prosthetic, and they have been around since the late 70s. The myoelectric sensors require a healthy muscle group that the user can activate by flexing. This is a problem with a lot of amputees, as some may be missing from traumatic amputations, and the rest tend to attrify over time.
Myoelectric prosthetic are not reflexive, and you do have to consciously flex the individual muscles to make the terminal end device function in a specific way, and it does take a lot of concentration and practice.
Yeah, you can see her arm moving as she flexes the muscles.
What if someone hacks your hand “stop hitting yourself”
I doubt it’s connected
Of course it is, you can see her controlling it wirelessly.
Unless you mean “connected to the Internet”, which has nothing to do with the ability to hack it.
They’re creepy and they’re cooky, mysterious and spooky, they’re all together ooky, and now they finally have their last family memeber. What an interesting Thing.
“I specifically asked for this” — future me
Doesn’t she have an arm based off of Deus Ex?
The internet has been watching her grow up over the years and it’s crazy how natural those arms are to her now. She’s basically integrated them as part of herself.
Finally. Someone who can roleplay as my favorite member of the Addam’s Family.
