I got a message recently from a high school senior who’d visited my blog, he had a birth defect that affected one of his hands and had recently become more conscious about it in social settings. He asked if I had anything to share. Well this got me thinking, really thinking, what was it I [...]

I met Deny (he’s 22) a few weeks back, I was introduced to him via TouchBionics since he lives in the Northern California area and was very interested in the i-Limb hand after losing his hand in an industrial accident, back in December. He dropped by with his sister, Rebecka, on their way to his [...]

For Halloween this year I simply took the glove of my i-Limb hand, put on a leather biker jacket and pants, added a pair of sunglasses and voila, Terminator! This photo was taken at a friends party (they go all out decorating their house). Just after this photo was taken someone came walking past and [...]

While I was in Grand Cayman on vacation I took the chance to try out a closed circuit re-breather. This is different from normal open-circuit SCUBA gear in that you re-breath the same air. I remember when these units first started to be available for recreational diving a good few years back, it always peaked [...]

Kerry and I just got back from our diving vacation in Grand Cayman, 10 days of fun with 8 days of diving. I got in a total of 19 dives, we took a NITROX course and I got to play with a closed circuit re-breather (but more of that in a future post). This was [...]