Thursday, January 31, 2013 - 3:46pm
Using technology to enhance or augment human performance has come a long way, and a team from the U.K. is out to show just how much.
artificial limbs stories
Friday, April 17, 2009 - 12:36pm
The JaipurKnee Project started when Biomedical Device Design and Evaluation students at Stanford University were tasked with creating a prosthetic leg that was as awesome sturdy as it was amazingly cheap. What they came up with is the leg you...
Wednesday, March 25, 2009 - 5:21am
It may not be the best prosthetic limb out there, but it beats a peg leg — and certainly no leg at all. Designed by Tillmann Beuscher, this artificial limb takes the opposite approach to the more technically impressive ones...
Thursday, October 2, 2008 - 4:30am
Researchers at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles have found that adding gelled fingertips to a prosthetic hand can enable the wearer to instinctively react to the weight and fragility of an object he is touching —...
