Modular Prosthetic Limbs - Get Sarif Industries on this - General

I wonder how long it'll be before a true neural interface will be invented, where it works just like you do now. Then, I wonder how long it'll be before the prosthetics are better than flesh. Personally, if the robotic parts are better than my flesh parts, i'd volunteer to replace them.

[QUOTE=Tmaxx;46744883]I wonder how long it'll be before a true neural interface will be invented, where it works just like you do now. Then, I wonder how long it'll be before the prosthetics are better than flesh. Personally, if the robotic parts are better than my flesh parts, i'd volunteer to replace them.[/QUOTE] This is making me curious to how close Deus Ex HR is depicting the future, with designer prostetics and people getting them as fashion statements rather than out of necessity. I found that aspect of the world really interesting.

[QUOTE=Svinpels;46744950]This is making me curious to how close Deus Ex HR is depicting the future, with designer prostetics and people getting them as fashion statements rather than out of necessity. I found that aspect of the world really interesting.[/QUOTE] Transhumanism is fascinating. I imagine that when prosthetics become superior to organic components, people will start getting this kind of thing done by choice, but maybe in 100 or 200 years. There are a [I]lot[/I] of ethical concerns to get through, not to mention reaching the technological breakthrough in the first place.

[QUOTE=Fatfatfatty;46742609]Hopefully they can make fake skin on it so it looks a bit less robotic.[/QUOTE] [URL="http://www.iflscience.com/technology/smart-artificial-skin-could-give-prosthetic-limbs-feeling"]Well here is a start[/URL], and it's functional too.

They did a very impressive job on making highly functional prosthetic arms. The next thing to do now is to create highly functional legs. We'll might reach the age of Deus Ex at this rate.

[QUOTE=ThePanther;46742639][QUOTE=Ganerumo;46742300]That thumbnail [img]http://puu.sh/dzQ03/0c6cfbb7b5.jpg[/img] [I]"The fuck am I doing ?"[/I][/QUOTE] More like "Oh god I have arms again. I am a terminator."[/QUOTE] I was thinking more along the lines of, "What foul deeds hath the terrible power in these hands wrought!?"

[QUOTE=Nerokhan;46747295]They did a very impressive job on making highly functional prosthetic arms. The next thing to do now is to create highly functional legs. We'll might reach the age of Deus Ex at this rate.[/QUOTE] This guy's legs are pretty awesome: [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDsNZJTWw0w[/media]

I just saw that video. Those legs are an amazing piece of work.

Holy shit, I love that I'm alive to see this technology progress. I still remember watching a story on the news about groundbreaking technology allowing people to move a cursor on a screen with their mind. How far we've come, god damn.

[QUOTE=Karmah;46743405]What I want to know is if the brain can ever rewire itself to make the motion more quick and fluid, or if this line of technology can only be controlled through laborious explicit thought[/QUOTE] I'm neither an engineer nor a doctor, but what I assume you mean by "laborious explicit thought" - thinking the actions literally, like "extend elbow to 180 degrees" - probably wouldn't be necessary if they hook the stuff up to the nerves that once controlled your muscles.

some day prosthetics will be so advanced that these videos will be like the black and white videos of mainframe computers in the 50's

[QUOTE=Water-Marine;46744730]HEADLINE: Local man's testicals explode after freak masturbation accident[/QUOTE] This got me thinking: if you jack off with a prosthetic arm, does it feel like someone else is doing it?

[QUOTE=FlakAttack;46753019]This got me thinking: if you jack off with a prosthetic arm, does it feel like someone else is doing it?[/QUOTE] If you can't feel with the prosthetic then I would assume so, except it would probably feel cold

Simultaneously, a group of South Korean/US researchers have made [URL="http://www.iflscience.com/technology/smart-artificial-skin-could-give-prosthetic-limbs-feeling"]sensory skin[/URL]that could be overlayed on prosthetics for more intuitive feedback (i.e. temperature, pressure, stretch, etc): [img_thumb]http://www.iflscience.com/sites/www.iflscience.com/files/styles/ifls_large/public/blog/%5Bnid%5D/prosthetic-hand.jpg?itok=8HuMKKYM/[/img_thumb]

[QUOTE=ElectricSquid;46747956]I'm neither an engineer nor a doctor, but what I assume you mean by "laborious explicit thought" - thinking the actions literally, like "extend elbow to 180 degrees" - probably wouldn't be necessary if they hook the stuff up to the nerves that once controlled your muscles.[/QUOTE] This is where you would be wrong These individuals are controlling it with their pectoral muscles People don't have a great degree of explicit control over these muscles normally, so they have to work VERY hard to reach a useable degree of control of these arms

[QUOTE=Karmah;46754037]This is where you would be wrong These individuals are controlling it with their pectoral muscles People don't have a great degree of explicit control over these muscles normally, so they have to work VERY hard to reach a useable degree of control of these arms[/QUOTE] This is where you would be wrong. The muscles that were once controlling the arms were surgically rewired into the pectoral muscles. The sensors then get feedback from the pectoral muscles. This is called targeted muscle reinnervation.

[QUOTE=Worre;46742287]I wonder how long it takes before they can make one of these with simultaneous joint control.[/QUOTE] they don't really say if its an interface or software problem or a nerve problem they just say that he can't move more well the problem is the system required surgeons to rather painfully move nerves in his chest about, then train him on all sorts of programs before he could even do this on his own. who knows how dextrous he will get with it though once his brain accustomes to it, even if he cant do fluid motions, he may be able to format the arm much quicker than he can now.

[QUOTE=ZestyLemons;46747364]This guy's legs are pretty awesome: [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDsNZJTWw0w[/media][/QUOTE] This is incredible, I feel like every time we have a thread on this subject there's some new video or article on advancements in this tech that's just not getting enough attention. This is my kind of TED talk, this guy is getting shit done, and has been for a while now.

[QUOTE=ElectricSquid;46747956]I'm neither an engineer nor a doctor, but what I assume you mean by "laborious explicit thought" - thinking the actions literally, like "extend elbow to 180 degrees" - probably wouldn't be necessary if they hook the stuff up to the nerves that once controlled your muscles.[/QUOTE] While this may be the truth for recent amputees, people like the man in ops video who have been missing the limb for decades will not have the reflexive control like someone who just lost their arm last week. So basically it all depends :v: