Limb Difference News Round-up: Limbs for Life Auction

A collection of recent limb difference related news items:

• Albany Times Union covers an ABS sufferer preparing for Beijing Paralympics
• KNBC has a story and video on a veteran testing the i-LIMB hand
• AP has a blurb on the Oklahoma City RedHawks auctioning jerseys to benefit Limbs for Life
  

Bionic hand wins top tech prize

From BBC News...

The world's most advanced, commercially available, bionic hand has won the UK's top engineering prize. The i-LIMB, a prosthetic device with five ndividually powered digits, beat three other finalists to win this year's MacRobert award...

...The complex device finally went on sale in July 2007. It is produced by a company called Touch Bionics based in Mid Calder, Livingston. "It's such a fantastic invention," Ray Edwards, a quadruple amputee and one of the first people in the UK to be fitted with the device, told BBC News. "When the arm was put on, I had tears rolling down my face. It was the first time in 21 years that I had seen a hand open. "I can do a thumbs-up, I can hold a pen and I can do many things that I ouldn't do before..."

...The firm is now looking to improve the design of the i-Limb as well as expanding its range of smart prosthetics. "We are working a full-arm system - we have a prototype wrist, elbow and shoulder," said Mr. (Stuart) Mead.

i-Limb Hand Interview

The One Handed Blogger is interviewed about the i-Limb...

Limb Difference Web Round-up: New ACA Headquarters; i-Limb Hand

A collection of recent limb difference related items from around the web:

• The Amputee Coalition of America celebrates its new headquarters
• Project Valour-IT seeks voice activated laptops for wounded troops
• The Onehandedblogger updates on his i-Limb hand