{"id":7230,"date":"2009-12-09T13:49:47","date_gmt":"2009-12-09T05:49:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techielobang.com\/blog\/?p=7230"},"modified":"2009-12-09T13:56:41","modified_gmt":"2009-12-09T05:56:41","slug":"touch-bionics-prodigits-offers-hope-to-those-with-missing-fingers-video-within","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techielobang.com\/blog\/2009\/12\/09\/touch-bionics-prodigits-offers-hope-to-those-with-missing-fingers-video-within\/","title":{"rendered":"Touch Bionics&#8217; ProDigits Offers Hope to Those with Missing Fingers &#8211; Video Within"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good news to those who has lost their digits (finger). Touch Bionics has produced ProDigits that is able to be customized to replace amputated fingers. It uses <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Myoelectric_prosthesis\" target=\"_blank\">myoelectric<\/a> regime which reacts to the muscle signals from the residual hand or pressure from the remnant finger for its input.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"7231\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/techielobang.com\/blog\/2009\/12\/09\/touch-bionics-prodigits-offers-hope-to-those-with-missing-fingers-video-within\/8dec09kjba3r4421\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/8dec09kjba3r4421.jpg?fit=600%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"600,300\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"8dec09kjba3r4421\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/8dec09kjba3r4421.jpg?fit=300%2C150&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/8dec09kjba3r4421.jpg?fit=600%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7231 aligncenter\" title=\"8dec09kjba3r4421\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/8dec09kjba3r4421.jpg?resize=540%2C270\" alt=\"8dec09kjba3r4421\" width=\"540\" height=\"270\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/8dec09kjba3r4421.jpg?w=600&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/8dec09kjba3r4421.jpg?resize=300%2C150&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Although the movement is NOT that great yet, it is still something that helps the person to perform daily jobs. I am sure it can be improved further in future.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, this motors on this ProDigits\u00a0 can be fine-tuned by doctor over bluetooth. Very nice.<\/p>\n<h1><a href=\"http:\/\/www.touchbionics.com\/ProDigits-press\/press-release\" target=\"_blank\">Click Here to Read Touch Bionics Press Release<\/a><\/h1>\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KCHUx9KlVrM?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<p>[ad#boxlist]<br \/>\n(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2009\/12\/08\/touch-bionics-offers-prodigits-for-those-missing-their-amateur-o\/\" target=\"_blank\">source<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good news to those who has lost their digits (finger). Touch Bionics has produced ProDigits that is able to be customized to replace amputated fingers. 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