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

[Richard Wright]

Curious to see that sexy new smartphone docked next to his prosthetic  
hook-for-a-hand that is more reminiscent of a seventeenth century  
pirate captain. That is cyberpunk indeed...



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> From: marc garrett <marc.garrett at furtherfield.org>
> Date: 28 October 2011 10:10:16 BDT
> To: NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity  
> <netbehaviour at netbehaviour.org>
> Subject: [NetBehaviour] Man gets smartphone dock built into  
> prosthetic arm.
> Reply-To: NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity  
> <netbehaviour at netbehaviour.org>
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>
> 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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