Artistic visions for prosthetic design XX – towards the Phantom Hand

What does a Phantom hand look like? I know how it feels – but how does it look like?

This is my vision for a “Becker Phantom hand”:

However in simulated / faked real life (below, edited photo), its appearance may be more Victorian than Phantom:

I would still like to try transparent plastic as a body, and then work towards making it variably colored and gradually opaque. The coolness would go further than what ordinary models allow.


Cite this article:
Wolf Schweitzer: swisswuff.ch - Artistic visions for prosthetic design XX – towards the Phantom Hand; published 12/08/2010, 13:03; URL: https://www.swisswuff.ch/tech/?p=348.

BibTeX 1: @MISC{schweitzer_wolf_1761950124, author = {Wolf Schweitzer}, title = {{swisswuff.ch - Artistic visions for prosthetic design XX – towards the Phantom Hand}}, month = {August}, year = {2010}, url = {https://www.swisswuff.ch/tech/?p=348}

BibTeX 2: @MISC{schweitzer_wolf_1761950124, author = {Wolf Schweitzer}, title = {{Artistic visions for prosthetic design XX – towards the Phantom Hand}}, howpublished = {Technical Below Elbow Amputee Issues}, month = {August}, year = {2010}, url = {https://www.swisswuff.ch/tech/?p=348} }