Imagine
waking up in a hospital bed, and you reach for the glass of water on the
nightstand, you scream in shock when you realize your arm, from the middle of
your bicep down has been amputated. This can be the reality for many people
that have unfortunately been in terrible accidents and other traumatic
situations. Thankfully, doctors and others medical professionals have created a
solution to help these people, this being bionic limbs.
How
did we get this bionic technology? Well, we haven’t always had these robotic limbs.
This technology has been around for thousands of years and improves constantly.
When we started making these prosthetics they were made from heavy metal,
usually iron, that was shaped into a hook, not only were these uncomfortable
but they were not pleasing to the eye either. These prosthetics then transformed
into more human like plastic limbs which were a little more comfortable but
still had little to no useable functions. These we what people have mostly been
using, and many people that suffer with limb loss have these typical plastic prosthetics.
Just like anything in today’s world people are trying to and are improving
things every day. Which has ultimately driven doctors to come up with mind
controlled bionic limbs that would be light, comfortable and function better
than the limbs that we were born with. Which in perspective work the same exact
way that your normal limbs would, but with a bionic limb you could have more
range when walking or for an arm you should make you wrist move three hundred
and sixty degrees, where is something no human can do.
Although
the idea of a mind controlled limb may seems farfetched and that it is ‘just
something that you see in movies’ it’s not. This technology is the reality of
hundreds of people that use this today. For example, in the video below there
is a man named Zach Vawter. He is one of the first to test out and own this new
bionic technology. I encourage you to watch this video below because of its link
to a real life person and the explanation of how this exact technology works.
After
watching that video I hope that you get the sense that what this technology is
doing is not only extremely impressive but regular people use this every day to
improve their lives. Overall, this technology has made it a long way and I,
along with many other people hope for this technology to continue to
grow and expand to help people with traumatic limb loss. No matter what limb loss you suffered and who you are, the goal one day is to give everyone in need of a limb a mind controlled bionic.
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