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Artistic visions for prosthetic design XX - towards the Phantom Hand

   Published Date: August 12, 2010

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: Technical Below Elbow Amputee Issues - Artistic visions for prosthetic design XX - towards the Phantom Hand; published August 12, 2010, 13:03; URL: https://www.swisswuff.ch/tech/?p=348.

BibTeX: @MISC{schweitzer_wolf_1596224630, author = {Wolf Schweitzer}, title = {{Technical Below Elbow Amputee Issues - Artistic visions for prosthetic design XX - towards the Phantom Hand}}, month = {August},year = {2010}, url = {https://www.swisswuff.ch/tech/?p=348}}