It's Science Week. Prosthetics/Cybernetics

[wolven7]

This is Dean Kamen last night's Colbert Report, talking abotu the Luke Arm, the most advanced prosthetic arm currently available on the market. Really great shit:

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Comments

[bluesummers.livejournal.com]

I gotta say, though, as I watched that interview, I couldn't believe nobody made a "Cool Hand" joke.

I wanted them to say it so badly it felt like I had to pee.

[wolven.livejournal.com]

I was actually just thinking about you, yesterday. A friend of a friend is moving to NYC, and needs decent people with whom to recreate. You still up there, and/or do you have any desire to be said people?

[bluesummers.livejournal.com]

I would be more than happy to meet new people; unfortunately, I've been living in Japan for about two years now.

[wolven.livejournal.com]

Oh that's RIGHT. Somehow I forgot you were still Living there.

[bluesummers.livejournal.com]

It has been nice, though it does put a bit of a damper on my social life as far as things on that side of the Pacific are concerned.

[wolven.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I would imagine it might

[unknownbinaries.livejournal.com]

He made a man with no arms able to feed himself again. That still threatens to break me, when I think about it. That's Huge.

[wolven.livejournal.com]

That is the kind of ethic with which I want to move forward in everything I do. It's not about the tech, or the science, or the money, it's about changing the fucking world, and giving something to people who never thought they'd have whatever it was again.

Or giving them back something they never forgot they were missing.