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[QUOTE]Nearly a decade ago, Sun Jifa lost his hands in a fishing-related explosion.
To make matters worse, he soon realized that he couldn't afford the prosthetic hands recommended by the hospital.
Instead of wallowing, though, the 51-year-old man from Guanmashan, Jilin province, northern China, just decided to build his own bionic hands.
"I survived [the fishing accident] but I had no hands and I couldn't afford to buy the false hands the hospital wanted me to have -- so I decided to make my own," he explained to the Croatian Times.
After eight years of tinkering, he says he finally developed a working model that allows him to grip, hold, and mimic other necessary movements via a system of pulleys and wires.
"I control them with movements from my elbows and I can work, love normally and feed myself just like anyone else," he told the Daily Mail.
"The only drawback is that steel is quite heavy so they're tiring to wear and get hot or cold in the extremes of summer and winter," Sun added to the Daily Mail.
According to Xinhua, an estimated 24 million people in China have limb disabilities and would benefit from rehab services and greater prosthetics development.[/QUOTE]
[url]http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/15/sun-jifa-prosethetic-hands_n_1777168.html#slide=1382930[/url]
HE IS
THE ONE MILLION YEN MAN.
Sounds like he had some help building them, I can't see a guy building bionic hands, without any hands.
[QUOTE=ThePinkPanzer;37264322]HE IS
THE ONE MILLION YEN MAN.[/QUOTE]
Which, funnily, is about the price of an artificial limb.
somebody make a deus ex joke
He's augmented and didn't ask for it
He asked for it.
And he did it.
this man is a true american
What a fucking badass.
How do you manage to blow your hands off while fishing?!
[QUOTE=joost1120;37264382]How do you manage to blow your hands off while fishing?![/QUOTE]
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_An7Dj1w_gU[/media]
[QUOTE=joost1120;37264382]How do you manage to blow your hands off while fishing?![/QUOTE]
Either bombs, or he got the line caught around his hands and it tightened when the fish swam away.
[QUOTE=Ezhik;37264341]somebody make a deus ex joke[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=DireAvenger;37264431]Either [B]bomb[/B]s, or he got the line caught around his hands and it tightened when the fish swam away.[/QUOTE]
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This guy is seriously inspiring though. "Screw your made in China prosthetics! I am in China!"
They look seriously badass too.
[QUOTE=Ezhik;37264341]somebody make a deus ex joke[/QUOTE]
17 minutes late.
Damnit
Controlling them from the elbow? How does that work for finger joints and such?
[QUOTE=ThePinkPanzer;37264322]HE IS
THE ONE MILLION YEN MAN.[/QUOTE]
Or in the English version with converted currency:
HE IS
THE TWELVE THOUSAND SIX HUNDRED AND SEVENTY FOUR DOLLAR MAN!
Now I see why in Human Revolution there's more Chinese people with augs.
[QUOTE=Splarg!;37264400][media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_An7Dj1w_gU[/media][/QUOTE]
The URL of thise video is taking over my URL for this page. WHAT MAGIC IS THIS?
[QUOTE=Chaoclypse;37264844]Controlling them from the elbow? How does that work for finger joints and such?[/QUOTE]
I was wondering the same thing as well. It doesn't seem like he could control his hands very precisely, even after a lot of practice.
How did he make them, he didn't have arms
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oh
They look steampunk'ish, which is even more awesome.
[QUOTE=Pyth;37265020]How did he make them, he didn't have arms[/QUOTE]
maybe he is really good with his mouth
Why can't the chinese do more cool stuff like this instead of cloning every foreign product that exists.
[QUOTE=sHiBaN;37264487]"Screw your made in China prosthetics! I am in China!"[/QUOTE]
this is literally the worst joke ive seen in a long time
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although nothing gets worse than
[url=http://facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=1185548]"Why did the zombie chase after the CP? Because the CP had a zombie treat (meat)!"[/url]
Weirdly they don't even look disturbing at all, unlike that guy with the cyborg eye.
Wow that is so fucking amazing, and they look cool as fuck.
I wonder how he did this; musta had a bit of help since it's hard to tinker when you have no hands. Either he had a buddy do the assembly, or he used his feet.
Regardless it's pretty cool for a dude to design new hands for himself; he must know quite a bit about engineering.
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