Best hands in the business
Posted on 04/20/2025 5:15:44 AM PDT by Strict9
19-year-old Tilly Lockey is the bionic teen who continues to defy the odds. After contracting meningitis as a baby, Tilly’s hands were amputated to save her life. But through state-of-the-art bionic hands controlled by her mind, Tilly has been able to live a normal life. This week, Tilly became the first person to get the most advanced wireless hands in the world - making her stronger than she’s ever been. She’s back in the studio to show us her new hands, alongside robotics engineer Joel Gibbard who helped create them.
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Best hands in the business
At one point she takes off the hand and puts it on a table. She still has control so she let it creep around on the table . Wild!
I’m am amazed. God bless her and her doctors and scientists. This is what our colleges, medical profession, and scientists should focus on. Making everything better instead of everything wrong.
I’ll bet she has fun around Halloween!
yes, they can hook the devices up to individual muscle groups and that’s fine but as time goes on, they will be able to activate individual fingers. I’d like to see that. Soon, they could even attach the device wirelessly to your brain. The sky is the limit. This has always been a field I’ve felt was left behind. Lose a leg??? Here’s your peg leg from the 1700’s. I want to see LED’s, smart phone apps and beautiful kids like her playing the piano with these things. Someday.
Not Guilty!!
...and Truly amazing!!
I’m his book ‘The Long ARM of Gil Hamilton’ Larry Niven had a character that is missing an arm but his mind has the power to move things as if he still had it. If the video hookup was clear enough he could reach into it and move things remotely.
Wow!
At 7:00.
Reminds me of “thing“ from the Addams family.
yeah that’s amazing stuff. Beats the heck out of chinamen making bat bioweapons or the military showing us their advanced new hypersonic whatever. I want to see people get helped with science. It happens.
Kryten did similar stuff on Red Dwarf.
Life imitates art or the other way around?
Thanks for posting this, it’s truly amazing! Like you said, something POSITIVE for Easter!
Bttt
Great story. I wonder if she can play the holophonor.
“Kryten did similar stuff on Red Dwarf.”
KOCHANSKI is crouched over on her floor, staring under her bunk and poking a broom into the dark corners beneath]
KOCHANSKI You’re there, I *know* you’re there, you little sod! Come on, out! Out!
[Enter KRYTEN]
KOCHANSKI There’s a mouse under here, its been scuttling around for about ten minutes.
KRYTEN It’s not a mouse, ma’am, it’s Archie.
KOCHANSKI Archie?
KRYTEN My penis. It must have escaped.
KOCHANSKI You know, I’m really going to have to get my ears syringed; do you know what that sounded like to me?
KRYTEN I made one.
KOCHANSKI Forget my ears, maybe my whole *brain* needs syringing... You made one?
KRYTEN Mmm. Out of an old electron board, a loo roll, some sticky-backed plastic and an Action Man’s polo-neck jumper. KOCHANSKI Kryten, why do you want one?
KRYTEN It’s so humiliating, being posted to the Women’s Wing just because I’m genitally challenged! So I decided to make one like Mister Lister’s. Little rascal must have got bored jumping in and out of his hoop and made a break for it during the night.
KOCHANSKI No wonder I couldn’t lure him out with a bit of cheese. This whole thing’s making sense now.
KRYTEN Just leave this to me, ma’am. Here, Archie! Here, boy!
KOCHANSKI There he is!
[A small, gibbering critter suddenly hurls itself out and across the floor, tears around the room like a miniature whirlwind and shoots back under the bunk, where KRYTEN traps it under a bucket. Undeterred, the gibbering thing nudges the bucket out from under the bunk, lurches around for a moment, then whizzes out of the cell door and down a corridor]
KOCHANSKI Kryten, do you realise what this means?
KRYTEN No, ma’am.
KOCHANSKI It means you’re a real man.
KRYTEN It does? Why?
KOCHANSKI Because now, like all men, you have absolutely no control over your penis.
KRYTEN I’m so proud! Archie, come back!
Fascinating stuff. I never heard of this. Thanks for posting it.
And it is a bit creepy.
The hands are fantastic. It is a shame that the British health system can’t do basic dental care.
A great feel good story for this Easter Sunday. There have been too many not-so-good feeling stories lately.
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