I happened to be in Scotland last week on a trip and thought I’d drop in to TouchBionics, the company that makes my i-Limb hand, who are based there. They very kindly let me spend the afternoon with them talking about my experiences with my hand, allowing me to play with their new i-Limb Pulse [...]
Last week I got to spend a day at Singularity University, they were running one of their 9 day executive programs and I got an invite to come along and check it out. Luckily I picked the day that they spent the afternoon touring IDEO‘s offices and TechShop and it was while we were at [...]
A friend sent me a link to a recent video of Dean Kamen’s work on developing an artificial arm. Dean is the inventor of the Segway, and now seems to be applying his expertise to helping those of us missing upper limbs! I saw an earlier video of his work but this one shows the [...]
I picked up my final socket for my i-Limb hand a week back, from Rich at Diablo O&P . He had lovingly created a carbon fiber socket with a blue fleck running through it based on the test socket he had made earlier. We decided to move the electrodes up higher to try to resolve the [...]
Last week I picked up my test socket from Rich, at Diablo Prosthetics & Orthotics, fitted with the i-Limb hand. Since this is my first myo-electric hand we are still experimenting with the socket design and electrode placement, so it’s still early days. The test socket Rich built is pretty cool, it’s clear plastic so [...]
