July 2, 2007 — -- If the X-Finger looks like a prop from The Terminator, relax. It isn't out to kill you, and it isn't robotic. In fact, it's a mechanical prosthetic finger so effective it ...

Dan Didrick’s X-Finger prosthesis is digital in the old-fashioned sense: it replaces digits lost to wear and tear with fully-mobile artifical replacements. Moreover, it does so without any ...

A mechanical hand utilizing DARPA-developed neural technologies has become the first to allow a paralyzed patient to feel physical sensations through a prosthesis. The 28 year-old test subject was ...

Rocket-powered Mechanical Arm Could Revolutionize Prosthetics. ScienceDaily . Retrieved May 27, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2007 / 08 / 070820130638.htm ...

Researchers plot prosthetics’ future with tools, not hands. By O. Rose Broderick June 11, 2024. Reprints. courtesy Ottavia Maddaluno. N early half of people with upper-limb prosthetics abandon them.

Prosthetic hands typically come in three varieties: purely cosmetic models; hooks and other low-cost mechanical appendages that provide a limited range of motion; and electronic versions that ...

While blindfolded, the volunteer was able to report with nearly 100 percent accuracy, which mechanical finger was being touched — in the very first set of tests.

Man invents a prosthetic finger out of BICYCLE parts so he can type ... Mr MacDuff charges between £3,550 and £6,100 for a customised mechanical finger for amputees and has obtained a U.S ...

When South African craftsman Richard Van As lost most of the fingers from his right hand in an industrial accident, he decided to try and create a prosthetic finger to regain some of his lost ...

Prosthetic hand lets man actually feel what he touches for the first time. Technology, developed by the US government, marks the first time that people have been able to feel through prosthetics ...

Dan Didrick's X-Finger is a mechanical prosthetic device that provides articulation as fast and flexible as the real thing -- without batteries, electronics or motors of any kind.