The 'Third Thumb' prosthetic for anyone makes me really want an extra finger
The Third Thumb Project from Dani Clode on Vimeo.
You're holding your phone over your head to scroll through Facebook before you go to bed and the inevitable happens — you drop your phone on your face before falling asleep in shame. Not anymore, thanks to the Third Thumb.
The new 3D printed thumb is the creative projects of London’s Royal College of Art graduate student Danielle Clode. The creation began as a research project into how upper-limb prosthetics attach to and are controlled by the body.
According to Clode's graduate exhibition description, she found that the origin of the word prosthesis meant "an addition to." But that over time, the meaning seems to have morphed into being a way to fix a broken body. Read more...
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