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“you know, the fact is, nobody knew that they were prosthetic legs. They were the star of the show - these wooden boots peeking out from under this raffia dress - but in fact, they were actually legs made for me."
Aimee Mullins for Alexander McQueen S/S 1999
Every few years I remember that the Alternative Limb Project exists and get blown away once more by their work.
This one is half hyper-realistic, and half swapable sections based on the woman's personality, moods, and spirituality.
This one comes with a DRONE and has control panels in the wrist and forearm, as well as a flashlight and laser pointer.
This one is older, from 2012, but I still love it. Shiny shiny.
This one has a WORKING CUCKOO CLOCK IN THE KNEE. A WORKING. CUCKOO CLOCK.
Another older one, this one with realistic snake.
This is a two part one, dedicated to railway workers/builders/passengers who lost limbs. The limbs can be hooked together to allow the little train to travel between them.
This one is a literal swiss army knife arm, full of survival supplies.
Just. GAH. They are all so neat.
The project was started by Sophie de Oliveira Barata and you really have to check out her work: https://thealternativelimbproject.com/
That’s awesome and I’m sure its way cheaper than a prosthetic, but seriously it cannot be cheap to 3d print something that big…
this one 17 year old guy 3d printed an entire arm and shoulder for himself and it cost him $250
this seven year old girl got half an arm (just like lusie in the gifs) 3d printed and it only cost $50
can we just compare that with the average price of buying a prosthetic
3d printing is gonna help so many people holy crap
No no no, guys, this gif set leaves out the literal best stuff from the video.
So a few years back, this guy who accidentally cut off his fingers, teamed up with a special effects artist/puppeteer and created a 3D printable prosthetic hand, that used the movement of the wearer to be able to grab things. The guys who did this said they were just going to post the schematics online, which in turn lead to creating a network of people with 3D printers, who were willing to print prosthetics for people. The network of volunteers, turned into an organization that gives prosthetic arms/hands to kids who need them. They have science types improving the designs and creating new ones, they got a grant from Google, classrooms and scout troops are getting involved and making prosthetic hands for people.
Everything about this is amazing.
It’s stuff like this that makes technology awesome :’)
The future is now
HER SHRuG EMOTICON ONLY HAS ONE ARM!!!
I’m watching a documentary on Netflix about animals getting prosthetics and this vet just hand sculpted a prosthetic beak for an injured swan and the very first thing it did was use its new beak to bite someone
How else can you test if it’s a working beak tho
Check out this robotic hand which can touch and feel, improving perception and reflexes for its user. [ Δ ]
This Robot Hand Will Allow You To Bother An Entire Duck
Here’s an awesome little piece of history:
Archaeologists in the Burnt City have discovered what appears to be an ancient prosthetic eye. What makes this discovery exceptionally awesome is the striking description of how the owner and her false eye would have appeared while she was still alive and blinking:
[The eye] has a hemispherical form and a diameter of just over 2.5 cm (1 inch). It consists of very light material, probably bitumen paste. The surface of the artificial eye is covered with a thin layer of gold, engraved with a central circle (representing the iris) and gold lines patterned like sun rays. The female remains found with the artificial eye was 1.82 m tall (6 feet), much taller than ordinary women of her time. On both sides of the eye are drilled tiny holes, through which a golden thread could hold the eyeball in place. Since microscopic research has shown that the eye socket showed clear imprints of the golden thread, the eyeball must have been worn during her lifetime. The woman’s skeleton has been dated to between 2900 and 2800 BCE.
So she was an extraordinarily tall woman walking around wearing an engraved golden eye patterned with rays like a tiny sun. What an awesome sight that must have been.
[via TYWKIWDBI]
Wow.
SOMEONE DRAW HER PLEASE
CHALLENGE ACCEPTED!!
CAN WE TALK ABOUT HOW AN ANCIENT CRAFTSMAN WAS PRESENTED WITH PEOPLE LOOKING FOR HELP TO NORMALIZE THEIR DISABILITY. AND THEN SAID ‘NAH FUCK THIS WE’RE GOING TO
MAKE YOU LOOK BADASS.’
i love her
oh my god they did it!
This is probably the most impressive and beautiful thing I’ve seen in years.
This is amazing. As much as i joke about wanting new legs, I hope this gives amputees much wanted freedom.
Let people be inspired by how you deal with your flaws 🙂🙃
😍😍😍
The world first tattooing prosthetic Arm!
French artist JL Gonzal made this for Tattoo artist JC Sheitan using an existing prosthesis on which he added the metal bits and built the tattoo machine so that it can be set as needed by the tattoo artist.
this is so fucking metal
Why does every Overwatch artist neglect the fact that Pharah has entirely robot limbs?
They always draw Symmetra’s aperture science arm and they always draw mcree’s arm and junkrat’s hand/peg leg etc. but literally every image I’ve seen of Pharah out of the Raptora suit shows her as just entirely human, no robot parts at all.
Look:
All of Pharah’s arms and legs are robotic. The only skin where they aren’t is Security Chief Pharah, which is an origins skin and is therefore from the past, which means she lost all her limbs at some point in time after becoming security chief at Helix Security International. (she also has her legs in the raindancer and thunderbird skins too but those are definitely 100% not canon).
!!!!!! OH SHIT??? lmao im finding more and more characters with prosthetics that i never noticed before, its wild!
Because amputees shouldn’t have to be reduced to a single body part. And because you can do pretty incredible things with prostheses, like attach wings to prosthetic legs for skydiving.
Good news for everyone with blurry vision or a strong desire to become Superman. The Ocumetics Bionic Lens may give you 60/20 eyesight — three times better than 20/20. It’s a major leap in eye prosthetics, takes 8 painless minutes to install — and could be here sooner than you think.
turn me into a fucking cyborg
Imagine if when people get it, they start seeing crazy shit.
“Tragedy struck today when a man was murdered by his best friend for asking “What do your elf eyes see?” for the billionth time”
Sign my ass up where to I get my cyborg enhancements let’s do this.
@imperfectkreis it’s our time to shine apparently.
Time to live that cyborg dream.
Can we also talk about how this is the best translation tool for non English speakers? I want this for traveling!
this is amazing! i am low-vision and could use this when i am travelling
i was expecting this to be EXTREMELY expensive but actually it’s FREE? can’t wait for the android version, but it does work really well on my ipad (when i remember to turn the sound up). a thing that differentiates SMOOTH MEDICINE BOTTLE A from SMOOTH MEDICINE BOTTLE B, etc!!!
