Segway inventor Dean Kamen is looking to re-invent the prosthetic arm. IEEE Spectrum caught up with Kamen and one of his "test pilots," to see the robotic arm (named after Luke Skywalker's articficial limb) in action.
Reply>RealityDetectiveWhat do you mean people shouldnt be losing their limbs in wars o_O? In case you havent noticed what a bullet can actually do to the human body as opposed to those movies that tone it down for content, losing a limb is VERY possible. A lot of the people who will need this are old veterans who didnt have the protection we have today anyway.
krj213213231(January 5, 2009 at 7:11 pm)
Sure its a great vid, but sometimes its hard to fully understand what some people are saying
FortoneND(January 5, 2009 at 4:46 pm)
No need to down rate, it's a little sketchy on the audio quality but great vid.
krj213213231(December 22, 2008 at 4:58 pm)
Bad quality on audio
kinnisonPaladin(December 15, 2008 at 6:18 pm)
DeimosSaturn, you didnt read my post correctly. I said "religion doesnt really have all that much to do with it."
and you say "Third, Just acknowledge that religion had absolutely nothing to do with this ".
As for the free will issue, yeah, that was my mistake. Free will is a huge philosophical discussion with no definite answer. I was just stating my opinion.
Once again, religion has nothing to do with this.
DeimosSaturn(December 15, 2008 at 5:26 pm)
Tell me, what is religion meant to be? What the people at the bottom tier of the religion get from it or what the people at the top tier of the religion use it as? Could it be that this idea of what religion is "meant to be" is just another divisive system to get people to not question? Religion is what it is. I don't care about the consolation prizes the followers talk about getting when the con men can't heal amputees.
DeimosSaturn(December 15, 2008 at 5:21 pm)
Random and Unprovoked CRITICISM on religion. I didn't blow up a church. Just to note, you are trying to frame me as some sort of assailant. "Typical" comes to mind.
I was thinking about all these con artists who say they can heal people's ailments and why it is that they never seem to be able to heal amputees. I'm sorry you are so small minded as to find my commentary "rude" or "offensive".
DeimosSaturn(December 15, 2008 at 5:17 pm)
kinnisonpaladin, you make the bold and baseless assertion that 1>free will exists, and 2>if it did exist, that religion is responsible for it. Have fun proving either or both of those assertions.
Second of all, I was making the comment in reference to those religions that make claims of healing people.
Third, Just acknowledge that religion had absolutely nothing to do with this accomplishment of engineering and perhaps stood in its way.
TheGraham721(December 12, 2008 at 3:05 pm)
Soldiers better get these for free. I have absolutely no problem with my tax dollars going to give these men and women their lives back. I'd especially prefer to do that over paying salaries to idiot politicians that do nothing but sit around and vote to give themselves a pay raise.
eksdem(December 11, 2008 at 4:09 pm)
Wonderful!
LittleEarthquakes123(December 10, 2008 at 3:37 pm)
Pretty cool arm. How much do they cost? Will they be givent o our military for free? Are there combat applications for them?
