Tag Archives: prosthetics

Who would have thought that an artificial limb could be designed to be aesthetically appealing? Japanese designer Shunji Yamanaka crafts prosthetic limbs specifically designed to suit the female physique.

Tanya Marie Vlach wants to be a cyborg. No, really. She's trying to raise enough money to fund development of a tiny webcam that could fit inside her prosthetic eye.

Japan has just discovered how to gain independent control over muscle movement by using hacked hardware. Should we be afraid?

New technology involving wireless electrodes gives humans the ability to manipulate objects with brain signals.

Last year a young Austrian man named Patrick was the first person in the world to choose to have his hand amputated, and fitted with a bionic replacement. The results are impressive.

These minimalist, stick-on outsoles prefigure a future in which we'll pad and weaponize our bodies with consumer-grade prosthetics for fashion and fitness.

Bodyhack’s Randy Dotinga was an attendant of the AAAS conference, one of the largest scientific conferences in the world, and discusses his experience sitting on the panel of the neural implants and prosthetics. The conversation quickly changed to the evolution of brain science. One matter discussed was the ability of a prosthetic to not only just be an artificial limb ...