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Jan 04
We recently finished filming a training seminar for a prosthetic limb developer. Now, I know what you’re thinking, but this wasn’t your typical ‘fake hand’. far from it. Remember that scene in Terminator 2 when they found the arm from the original? (The arm was all that was left from the terminator which was crushed in the first film.) Well, these prosthetics were more like that. Attaching to muscles via sensors, people with no hands or fingers were able to-with a thought and a flex of the arm-open individual fingers and perform tasks previously unheard of in this field. (Think: play piano or pick up skittles off of a table.) It made me think that all current prosthetics had met their match, and I wondered what the future held for our own industry.
In the past few years I’ve been privileged to work here, I’ve seen a few Read the rest of this entry »
Jan 04
As a media outlet, we’ve become part of a lot of different social networks. One in particular, Merchant Circle, has a neat feature that lies up user questions with businesses that it feels are qualified to answer. Here’s one that was sent to us. Now, the question didn’t pertain to us directly, but our line of work deals with the reason she had to ask it to begin with, so we felt obliged to answer… Read the rest of this entry »