Robotic Prostheses For Human Faces

holy_calamity writes "New Scientist reports on a patent application that suggests implanting polymer muscles beneath the skin of people suffering paralysis of the face to give them control of their features. The technique has already been used successfully to reanimate the eyelids of human cadavers. Movement could be returned to other facial features and even paralyzed limbs in the same way, the surgeons at University of California Davis say. The full patent application is also available on the WIPO site."

Way cool

[flaming error]

> The technique has already been used successfully to reanimate the eyelids of human cadavers.

That'll make such a great party trick.

Blinking dead people!

[TinBromide]

HOLY BLINKING DEADMAN!!!

I for one welcome our blinking undead overlords.

Re:Way cool

[mc1138]

Not as cool as my zombie finger in a box!

Re:Way cool

[shawnap]

That'll make such a great party trick.

The real trick will be getting the host to let you into the party with a corpse slung over your shoulder.

Robotic Prostheses For Human Feces

[Roblimo]

This is the advance *I'm* waiting for...

Potential here!

[Trillan]

Before you know it, being dead won't be nearly the handicap it is now.

What's that? I missed the point?

Queue the They Might Be Giants

[kwabbles]

If I were a carpenter I'd
Hammer on my piglet, I'd
Collect the seven dollars and I'd
Buy a big prosthetic forehead
And wear it on my real head

Everybody wants prosthetic
Foreheads on their real heads
Everybody wants prosthetic
Foreheads on their real heads

Rhymes with Prostheses

[aardwolf64]

You can imagine my relief (pun intended) when I realized the title did not read:
Robotic Prostheses For Human Feces

Prosthetic foreheads

[Nerdposeur]

This is no surprise. After all, everybody wants prosthetic foreheads on their real heads [metrolyrics.com].

Re:Way cool

[Bozzio]

That'll make such a great party trick.

I was thinking more along the lines of it being the greatest coroner/mortician prank EVER!

Re:Way cool

[flyingsquid]

So you can even give a dead person facial expressions? This technology seems to have no limits in it applications. I mean, I'll bet you could even get Keanu Reeves to display emotions.

OK, let me correct that statement: this technology seems to have almost no limits in its applications.

Re: Robotic Prostheses For Human Feces

[Anonymous Coward]

Only when they are shit-faced.

I'm rewriting my will!

[Locke2005]

This is going to make my open-casket funeral so much more interesting!

Re:Way cool

[Kell Bengal]

You've obviously never been to one of my parties.