[NetBehaviour] Man gets smartphone dock built into prosthetic arm.
marc garrett
marc.garrett at furtherfield.org
Fri Oct 28 11:10:16 CEST 2011
Man gets smartphone dock built into prosthetic arm.
A British man has become the world's first ever patient to have a
smartphone docking system built into his prosthetic arm.
Trevor Prideaux, who was born without his left arm, used to have to
balance the smartphone on his prosthetic arm or put it on a flat surface
to use it.
But now Mr Prideaux, 50, can call and text his loved ones without moving
the mobile, which is embedded into his fibreglass and laminate limb.
The catering manager sought help from medical experts and communications
chiefs at Nokia to build the special prosthethic.
They carefully carved a phone shaped fibrecast cradle into the
skin-coloured prototype, allowing his Nokia C7 to sit inside it.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/8848476/Man-gets-smartphone-dock-built-into-prosthetic-arm.html
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