Amputees’ hopes to experience the feeling of human touch using their prosthetics are becoming closer to reality. Now, new technology is allowing them to feel temperature—even in limbs that are no longer part of their bodies. For the first time, a functional artificial limb has been fitted with fingertip sensors that allow an ordinary prosthetic hand to sense and respond to temperature just as a living hand does. The device provides a realistic sense of hot and cold in the missing “phantom” hand by delivering thermal information to nerve areas on the amputee’s residual limb that the brain believes are still connected to the missing hand. The MiniTouch, described in a study published Friday in Med, was created with affordable off-the-shelf electronics, requires no surgery and can be fitted to existing commercial prosthetic hands in a matter of hours.
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it wild to me that there are people out there who aren't interested in history
like wdym you don't think about the fact that women would tell stories as they made butter in the same way we listen to podcasts today? wdym you don't think about that one Chinese poet who wrote about how much he loved his cats hundreds of years ago? wdym you don't think about the fact that we found a gravesite of a young child surrounded by flowers from THOUSANDS of years ago? wdym you don't think about how people wrote "i was here" into the walls in Pompeii? wdym you don't think about the little egyptian boy who drew little doodles at the top of his school works more then a thousand years ago?
wdym you don't think about the fact that people, no matter the place, time, or social status, are fundamentally no different from you. that they loved the same as you, enjoyed the same things you did, dreamed about a better life the same way you did. that despite how seemingly detached you are from these people, in time, place, and culture, the things you do and what u are is so undeniably human that it transcends time and space
SEX AND THE CITY (1998–2004) 2.13 Games People Play
“Normal” test results are not the relief people think they are. When you wake up in pain and continue to be in pain for hours every day and your tests come back normal you don’t stop being in pain.
My fenders don't really whip me into a verbal frenzy
10 THINGS I HATE ABOUT YOU 1999, dir. Gil Junger
MY LITTLE KRIEGIE MARCONI IM SO DONE
The fact that this is canon makes me go feral
Only sneak peak that’s happening-
“And he can.” Lu remained magnanimous, she owed Bucky Egan her life, and just because they were stateside didn’t mean he could handle being set aside any better than he had in camp- she would know. Once her Major, always her Major, she wouldn’t dare buy a car without his advice. That wasn’t the issue. “He can, I just need to pass this thing without his commentary workin’ me all up.” Lu glanced back at the cinderblock municipality building furtively, like she was about to storm the place in a secret mission.
bucky exaggerating a little cough and looking over his shoulder with big eyes to see if gale will fawn over his widdle cold meanwhile gale’s bedside manner is a cross between a doctor in the 1800s and a high school football coach meaning he’s gonna tell bucky to take a shot of mercury and run laps and if he gets lightheaded that means it’s working
is anyone else also doing ultimately fine + dying of stress + it’s not that bad + if i don’t wake up tomorrow hotter and better at every hobby its fucking over for me