[NetBehaviour] Man gets smartphone dock built into prosthetic arm.

[marc garrett]

Hi Tracey,

He's taken accessorizing to a limit...

One cannot presume he's read Donna Haraway's 'A CyborgManifesto', but it 
does give us a glimpse of a future where people adapt themselves 
physically with the technology the use.

marc


> that is amazing! just wondering how he will manage upgrades?!
>
> On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 8:10 PM, marc garrett 
> <marc.garrett at furtherfield.org <mailto:marc.garrett at furtherfield.org>> 
> wrote:
>
>     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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