One solar day while tantalise in his friend ’s car , Evan Reynolds ’ arm got rip off , and he became one of the first mass to hit a fully functioning Luke - Skywalker - style robotic I - Limb from Touch Bionics .
Click to viewHe’d been hanging his sleeve out the railway car windowpane when his ally pass a parking lot a little too close to a wooden gatepost . A quick scrape and the limb “ was amputated in a second , ” the 19 - year - old British college student told the Telegraph UK . “ It was very cruddy . ” His friend applied a tourniquet and keep open Evan ’s life . ( Side bill : Glad he ’s still your friend Evan — I’m not indisputable I could be as forgiving . )
Later on , Evan ’s big buddy call up Touch Bionics , base in Scotland , and they stop up fitting the tiddler with the $ 60,000 arm you see in the TV above , capable of “ peeling a spud , catching a ball , holding a bottle of water . ” In the past year , Touch has give way munition to a numeral of people including soldier spite in combat . Evan ’s trying on happened in February of last year .
“ It ’s so tender I can grip a bottle of water or a paper cupful without crush it , and even swing a racket . All I have to so is imagine picking something up or fascinate it and the fingers and thumb move mechanically , ” he told the Telegraph . [ Telegraph UKviaGeekologie ]
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