New artificial arm controlled by thoughts
February 11th, 2009
From the New York Times:
An innovative procedure described on Tuesday in the online edition of The Journal of the American Medical Association gives people a new kind of prosthetic arm that can be controlled by their thoughts.
Amanda Kitts, 40, who lost her arm in a car accident three years ago, uses the arm to do tasks like playing football with her 12-year-old son and tying shoes at one of the day care center she owns in Knoxville, TN.
Daniel Acosta, 25, an airman injured by a roadside explosive in Iraq in 2005, had the procedure last year, and said his prosthetic left arm now moved “a lot faster” and more naturally. “The difference is I’m not really thinking about it,” said Mr. Acosta, of San Antonio said. “I kind of just do it.”
(New York Times photo)
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