The new bionic hand

Technology to help amputee patients has been increasing in its complexity over the years. Now, there is a bionic hand that can supposedly allow the patients to "feel". This will be accomplished by wiring the hand directly to the patients' central nervous system and hope that he or she will be able to receive signals from the touch receptors on the hand. However, this bionic hand has not yet been attached to an amputee. Only various clinic trials have been performed to learn more about neural signals and controlling a prosthesis. But the next step is to attach the hand to a man from Rome. How crazy would that be if amputees to "regain" feeling again?!

I chose this article because we just visited the Outtobock center in Duderstadt and learned about a few different kinds of prosthesis for patients. It was interesting to see what other developments are occurring in the same field. 

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