The DEKA Arm
September 20, 2009 5:00 PM
New technology is making it possible for amputees to pick up small objects they never thought they would master thanks to the biggest innovation in prosthetic arms since WW II. Scott Pelley reports.
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See all 24 CommentsAs for the inaccuracies on what makes us humans, it does not seem an intentional mistake made on purpose to offend people. Clearly if they are trying to help people recover function and so forth, they'd be the least probable to say something offensive on purpose. It was probably an unfortunate mistake due to being in front of the cameras and pressed for time, etc. It was insensitive yes, but not intended. He seemed too excited and happy for the potentials of this new discovery to be a bad guy. In any case, the mistake should not steer away the attention from what has been achieved here.
Way to go Deca and the engineering team!
Saludos from New Jersey
Thanks, bjhartford@hotmail.com
Granted there are a whole slew of primates with an opposable thumb, but we are not talking about what make us human as to what makes us feel human, the lose makes us feel less, and anyone who can?t see that simply is missing the point.
The work is long overdue and it?s a shame it taken a war to have gotten us this far. While I can?t say I like war, you cannot discount that a lot of Tec breakthroughs come about because a country is at war. The same went for the space race, a lot of people saw no need to get to the moon, but it was not so much getting there as it was making it possible to do so.
Sometime it?s not the goal but developing the means that make something worthwhile.
The DEKA arm should be included in President Obama's new healthcare reform for those who need it. Maybe it'll get more support after that. - Just a thought Im putting out there. I appluade all the brilliant minds and efforts that's been put to into this project.
It's obvious that Pelley is just as misinformed and deluded about evolution as the rest of right-wing America. Of course, he's going to think that humans are the only ones with opposable thumbs. He probably also thinks that women have more ribs than men and that the earth is only 6000 years old, and that fossils were put here by the devil to "trick us" and "test our faith".
How can we really trust a news program like 60 Minutes to be impartial, when the partisan bias against reality is so apparent on in their reporting.
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