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15-year-old girl Chloe Holmes gets bionic hand

Posted By mehul_6363 on Aug 23, 2011   FROM: geek.com report abuse

Bionic word is oftenly heard in news and also we have heard about Droid Bionic smartphone but we never heard about bionic hand or bionic part of human body. Have you heard such news? If not then I say the story about a 15-year-old girl who lost all her fingers to septicaemia as a toddler and has never been able to pick things up herself gets bionic hand made by Touch Bionics in Scotland.

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The bionic hand, which costs about £38,000 ($54,626). The bionic left hand is controlled using electronic signals from the nerve endings in her arm. The i-LIMB has a few electrodes inside the socket that detect electrical impulses made by the muscle movement in the lower arm, triggering the fingers to move.

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