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

[Tracey M Benson]

Love the visual you just conjured for me! Arrr me hearties!

On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 10:29 PM, Richard Wright <
futurenatural at blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:

> 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 <
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> *Subject: **[NetBehaviour] Man gets smartphone dock built into prosthetic
> arm.*
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> Man gets smartphone dock built into prosthetic arm.
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> A British man has become the world's first ever patient to have a
> smartphone docking system built into his prosthetic arm.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> The catering manager sought help from medical experts and communications
> chiefs at Nokia to build the special prosthethic.
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> They carefully carved a phone shaped fibrecast cradle into the
> skin-coloured prototype, allowing his Nokia C7 to sit inside it.
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> http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/8848476/Man-gets-smartphone-dock-built-into-prosthetic-arm.html
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