• UK Man Gets Prosthetic Limb With A Smartphone Dock Built In
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[QUOTE]Trevor Prideaux was having trouble texting. Prideaux, who was born without his left forearm, used to have to balance his smartphone on his prosthetic arm or lay it on a flat surface to text, dial, or otherwise take advantage of the technology. So with some help form the Exeter Mobility Center in Devon, UK, the 50-year-old Prideaux has become the first person to have a smartphone dock embedded in his prosthetic limb. With some design help from Nokia and the prosthetics team at EMC, Prideaux’s Nokia C7 is now fixed within his prosthetic forearm (he went to Apple first hoping to mount an iPhone, but Cupertino declined to participate in his project). He can now easily text by using his one hand, or field calls either by putting his prosthetic forearm up to his ear or by using speakerphone, leaving his biological limb free. The very idea of it gets the idea mill churning. Right now, the prosthesis is a prosthesis and the phone is simply a phone, but the idea of integrating the two opens the door to some unique possibilities. Aside from being able to record data on how the limb is used to help designers better customize the prosthesis to the person, the limb could also be augmented to make better use of the phone/computer. Maybe some extra battery on board the limb? Some speakers for better speaker phone usage (and for the wearer’s listening pleasure, should he or she require some tunes). Call it primitive cyborg tech with a lot of potential. Photos via the Telegraph below. [img]http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/02036/pro_2036922c.jpg[/img][/QUOTE] Source: [url]http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2011-10/uk-man-gets-first-prosthetic-limb-smartphone-dock-built[/url] For the record, he [I]did[/I] ask for this. :v:
[quote](he went to Apple first hoping to mount an iPhone, but Cupertino declined to participate in his project).[/quote] Proving yet again that Apple are a bunch of massive dicks.
So useful, and he's not going to get any stupid comments about it.
[QUOTE=Madman_Andre;32984797]Proving yet again that Apple are a bunch of massive dicks.[/QUOTE] Apple would have charged him an arm and a leg for it. :v:
Reminds me of a Pipboy.
[QUOTE=killerzombie;32985297]Reminds me of a Pipboy.[/QUOTE] if only it were an iphone [img]http://blog.anscamobile.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/PipClock-on-iPhone.png[/img]
The future is here
He just needs a Pip-Boy skin
That's brilliant!
[QUOTE=cccritical;32985425]if only it were an iphone [img]http://blog.anscamobile.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/PipClock-on-iPhone.png[/img][/QUOTE] Bitch please, it would take all of a day to port that to another OS.
Why would you get a hook? You end up looking like Abu Hamza
[QUOTE=Emperor Scorpious II;32984755]He went to Apple first hoping to mount an iPhone, but Cupertino declined to participate in his project.[/QUOTE] I wager my left testicle Cupertino branch was already busy arranging to patent his prosthetic arm port.
[QUOTE=carcarcargo;32988770]Why would you get a hook? You end up looking like Abu Hamza[/QUOTE] Probably because a hook would be more useful for picking up stuff rather than having to alter a hand every time.
If I'm honest, I'm not surprised Apple declined. Why? They're not prosthetic limb builders. He'd have a much better job done, going to some specialised prosthetic limb builders, possibly ones who looked more into the connectivity/functionality side of it, and asked them to do it, with their years of expertise under the table, and then build in an iPhone connector as a third-party.
[QUOTE=markg06;32989261]Probably because a hook would be more useful for picking up stuff rather than having to alter a hand every time.[/QUOTE] [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6R5bm6qx2E&feature=related[/media] [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-JY8I_QswM[/media]
[QUOTE=Emperor Scorpious II;32984823]Apple would have charged him an arm and a leg for it. :v:[/QUOTE] And patented it.
[QUOTE=Madman_Andre;32984797]Proving yet again that Apple are a bunch of massive dicks.[/QUOTE] If apple does not want to do something does not make the automatically an ass
[QUOTE=carcarcargo;32988770]Why would you get a hook? You end up looking like Abu Hamza[/QUOTE]why wouldn't you get a hook? that's like the big advantage to losing a hand
[QUOTE=darth-veger;32990301]If apple does not want to do something does not make the automatically an ass[/QUOTE] They don't need to refuse to do anything else. Every sane person has already came to the conclusion that they are a shitty company.
[QUOTE=Fatal-Error;32990389]They don't need to refuse to do anything else. Every sane person has already came to the conclusion that they are a shitty company.[/QUOTE] I own a iPhone 4 for some time and i never had a single problem, sure my iPhone fell down one time, broken. But they said it could be repaired for free so 2 weeks later (got a replacement phone in that time) i got my phone back.
I didn't ask for this but this dock is pretty dope
just thought of an improvement to it, instead of having it so that it's for specific models of phones, have 4 moveable foam covered clamps, where the left and right are linked, and so are the top and bottom, make it so the plugs for the pones can be switched around that way you can have a battery pack/ "handset" I'll call it, so that it can work with any phone, now onto the hand set, you know how people will hold their hand up to their head like a phone sometimes for a "call me" gesture, I'm thinking imbed a microphone and speaker into the hand of the limb.
my hook-stump is 4g and augmented
Weren't smart phones cranium augmentations? I think he used his praxis wrong.
Apple have already applied their own patnet: [img]http://www.bjwinslow.com/albums/limbs/severed_arm_with_cell_phone_91.sized.jpg[/img]
What does he do when he wants a new phone? It's gonna have a different shape...
[QUOTE=NO ONE;32992034]What does he do when he wants a new phone? It's gonna have a different shape...[/QUOTE] He'll probably just adapt the hole with plastic or forget the idea. It's just a little fancy feature after all.
[QUOTE=SCopE5000;32989303]If I'm honest, I'm not surprised Apple declined. Why? They're not prosthetic limb builders. He'd have a much better job done, going to some specialised prosthetic limb builders, possibly ones who looked more into the connectivity/functionality side of it, and asked them to do it, with their years of expertise under the table, and then build in an iPhone connector as a third-party.[/QUOTE] Didn't stop Nokia helping
Man, not even the Nokia/prosthetic team could put a screen protector on that phone without screwing it up. I hate those things, most smart phones don't even need them anymore.
[QUOTE=viperfan7;32990674]just thought of an improvement to it, instead of having it so that it's for specific models of phones, have 4 moveable foam covered clamps, where the left and right are linked, and so are the top and bottom, make it so the plugs for the pones can be switched around that way you can have a battery pack/ "handset" I'll call it, so that it can work with any phone, now onto the hand set, you know how people will hold their hand up to their head like a phone sometimes for a "call me" gesture, I'm thinking imbed a microphone and speaker into the hand of the limb.[/QUOTE] You better get that pat... ooooh shit, man... sorry, Apple beat you to it.
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