Amputee Has Prosthetic Hand Wired To Nerves 72
New submitter kalman5 writes "Dennis Aabo Sørensen is the first amputee in the world to feel sensory rich information — in real-time — with a prosthetic hand wired to nerves in his upper arm. Sørensen could grasp objects intuitively and identify what he was touching while blindfolded. The surgical team 'attached electrodes from a robotic hand to a 36-year-old volunteer's median and ulnar nerves. Those nerves carry sensations that correspond with the volunteer's index finger and thumb, and with his pinky finger and the edge of his hand, respectively. The volunteer controlled the prosthetic with small muscle movements detected by sEMG, a method that dates to the 1970s and measures electrical signals through the skin—unlike the electrodes attached to his nerves, sEMG is not invasive.' The results? 'The volunteer was able to complete the requested tasks with his prosthetic thumb and index finger 67 percent of the time the first day and 93 percent of the time by the seventh day of the experiment, Micera and colleagues report. He found the pinky finger harder to control: he was only able to accomplish the requested grip 83 percent of the time by the end of the experiment.'"
I do not want Slashdot Beta (Score:5, Insightful)
If they follow through on their threats that might be it.
Who knows, maybe a mass exodus to Kuro5hin will revive that old refuge just as Slashdot dies.
Boycott (Score:3, Insightful)
I propose that we boycott stories and only discuss the abomination that is Slashdot Beta.
Moderators - only spend mod points on comments that discuss Beta
Commentors - only discuss Beta
Keep this up for a few days and we may finally get the PHBs attention.
Thanks Beta (Score:4, Insightful)
I've been wasting time here for a little more than a decade now. Won't have to anymore.
Hate the new beta (Score:3, Insightful)
Why is the feedback for the new beta by email? Previously when the last attempt was made to force everyone onto the new beta they at least provided a simple form for feedback. Now it is a plain email for feedback. Obviously nobody is going to read such emails and digest the feedback. They certainly wouldn't be able to easily collate the results and deduce that most people hate the beta, so I suppose that is why the feedback is effectively /dev/null. Perhaps they want to harvest the email addresses of site visitors who rarely bother to login?
Beta Blows (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Eh... (Score:4, Insightful)
Yeah. Shows how out of touch the people in charge of the site have become. They don't understand what keeps people here. I imagine they don't care. I imagine it's about getting new people in and traffic numbers up. There's some project manager who is under pressure to get these numbers. Beta is their baby. I feel bad that they have to keep an optimistic face, and pretend they like the monster that they created. .. all while knowing they've cock punched their oldest fan base. More of us old-fogeys with 1,000,000 user ids need to speak up.