{"id":182,"date":"2009-06-22T01:30:49","date_gmt":"2009-06-21T23:30:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.swisswuff.ch\/tech\/?p=182"},"modified":"2019-12-03T10:04:17","modified_gmt":"2019-12-03T08:04:17","slug":"artistic-visions-for-prosthetic-design-v-red-arm-experiment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swisswuff.ch\/tech\/?p=182","title":{"rendered":"Artistic visions for prosthetic design V &#8211; Red Arm I"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is part of my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swisswuff.ch\/tech\/?cat=64\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Red Hand Series<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This prosthetic arm is now very clearly recognizable as a replacement part that does not attempt to camouflage but to replace a shape. And I am all for anthropomorphic shapes &#8211; don&#8217;t get me wrong. Just because I really like my sturdy and reliable hook function does not mean I want to look that way. I want to look as complete as possible, and while that is not possible it appears as if I am currently negotiating a compromise.<\/p>\n<p>So currently we put <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swisswuff.ch\/tech\/?p=183\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">good old Steiner&#8217;s Rudy and his ideas about nervous people to use<\/a> after establishing that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swisswuff.ch\/tech\/?p=179\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">nervousness is a real issue<\/a>. Who&#8217;d a thunk it, there is a logical thread, a theory and a strategy.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" style=\"margin-right:450px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.swisswuff.ch\/images\/redarm1.jpg\" alt=\"red arm\" \/><\/p>\n<p>So, here we go, obviously that right arm is different but not hard to figure out for others.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" style=\"margin-right:450px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.swisswuff.ch\/images\/redarm2.jpg\" alt=\"red arm\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" style=\"margin-right:450px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.swisswuff.ch\/images\/redarm3.jpg\" alt=\"red arm\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I definitely use this for typing and in fact, it is by far the best tool for typing I had so far. The cable controlled arm works very well for typing &#8211; the hook tips, or holding a pen with the voluntary opening hand are both useful ways to type. But this piece of &#8220;cosmetic arm&#8221; is very light, very precise in positioning the fingers and very comfortable.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" style=\"margin-right:450px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.swisswuff.ch\/images\/redarm4.jpg\" alt=\"red arm\" \/><\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=swisswuff\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-size=\"large\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is part of my Red Hand Series. This prosthetic arm is now very clearly recognizable as a replacement part that does not attempt to camouflage but to replace a shape. And I am all for anthropomorphic shapes &#8211; don&#8217;t get me wrong. Just because I really like my sturdy and reliable hook function does&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4890,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,60,8,64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artwork-prosthesis","category-cosmetic-arm","category-prosthetics","category-red-hand-series","wpcat-57-id","wpcat-60-id","wpcat-8-id","wpcat-64-id"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-25 08:28:01","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swisswuff.ch\/tech\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swisswuff.ch\/tech\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swisswuff.ch\/tech\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swisswuff.ch\/tech\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swisswuff.ch\/tech\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=182"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.swisswuff.ch\/tech\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10729,"href":"https:\/\/www.swisswuff.ch\/tech\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182\/revisions\/10729"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swisswuff.ch\/tech\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swisswuff.ch\/tech\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swisswuff.ch\/tech\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swisswuff.ch\/tech\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}