{"id":301,"date":"2010-04-26T18:07:30","date_gmt":"2010-04-26T16:07:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.swisswuff.ch\/tech\/?p=301"},"modified":"2019-12-03T09:54:47","modified_gmt":"2019-12-03T07:54:47","slug":"artistic-visions-for-prosthetic-design-xv-red-arm-ii-high-tech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swisswuff.ch\/tech\/?p=301","title":{"rendered":"Artistic visions for prosthetic design XVI &#8211; Red Arm II &#8211; High Tech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My previous practical experiments with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swisswuff.ch\/tech\/?cat=64\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Red Hand concept<\/a> have yielded some results that emerged as stable throughout:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>People positively loved red and reddish appearances of my arm and hand to death. Some screamed with joy, some immediately wanted to touch it or did touch it, and when I was not wearing it, they demanded that I wear it. This response was stable over more than about 10 months and affected children and adults alike. This reaction confirms published results of Cloerkes and a color theory by Rudolf Steiner.<\/li>\n<li>The same did never even once happen with a skin colored socket. With a skin colored hand, children and some adults reacted with visible distress. One guy sweated, one kid screamed, and other reactions were not as pronounced but negative as well. Yet I was also complimented in a distanced manner as to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swisswuff.ch\/tech\/?p=144\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">how neat the Regal prosthesis<\/a> hand looked. This reaction confirms published results by Cloerkes.<\/li>\n<li>A clean or very clean appearance seemed to be paramount. Self-made appearances, worn down appearances and so on were not met with a lot of enthusiasm (even though I really like them). Surely people were intrigued by realistic or otherwise artsy appearances but it had to be a clean and well made prosthesis in order to yield positive acceptance. So here we have a difference between my and other people&#8217;s preference.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.swisswuff.ch\/tech\/?p=269\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The brushed down look<\/a> was almost stressful to some. I found it extremely cool but it was stressful to some. And no one volunteered compliments for that type of design.<\/li>\n<li>I do not want a pre-defined look. So I don&#8217;t want my arm to resemble hardwood, a leopard print or any other clear well-known and established point of reference. Instead I want this to be free of such anchors but &#8211; similar to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swisswuff.ch\/tech\/?p=239\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jacques Monestier&#8217;s approach<\/a> &#8211; some piece of loving art that invites to be examined rather than a piece of healthcare that must be stared at.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So for this round of new sockets (&#8230;my arm shrank&#8230;), I discussed material options in depth with my prosthetic technician. He then tried to work with my specifications and here is what came out of it.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>Carbon fiber and brick red epoxy<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Black carbon fiber and red epoxy were added and the result was cast to be as glossy as possible. The result is a red-brownish patterned glossy appearance. Depending on the light, a\u00a0crocodile leather like apperance, a synthetic appearance or some hard to identify appearance results.\u00a0As I had experimentally evaluated animal skin lookalikes to go to the direction of a &#8216;red paw&#8217;, this is a really good result.<\/p>\n<p>The hand &#8211; that looks great with it &#8211; is a Becker Imperial hand. The wrist that features a wrist-band-looking wide rim that acts as quick release lever is the current MSM 0.2rev model (currently under revision again).<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.swisswuff.ch\/images\/redhand2\/cf1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100%\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.swisswuff.ch\/images\/redhand2\/cf2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100%\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.swisswuff.ch\/images\/redhand2\/cf3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100%\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.swisswuff.ch\/images\/redhand2\/cf4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100%\" \/><\/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>My previous practical experiments with the Red Hand concept have yielded some results that emerged as stable throughout: People positively loved red and reddish appearances of my arm and hand to death. Some screamed with joy, some immediately wanted to touch it or did touch it, and when I was not wearing it, they demanded&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4450,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,57,67,68,16,8,64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bionic","category-artwork-prosthesis","category-becker_hand","category-becker-mechanical-hand","category-brands","category-prosthetics","category-red-hand-series","wpcat-49-id","wpcat-57-id","wpcat-67-id","wpcat-68-id","wpcat-16-id","wpcat-8-id","wpcat-64-id"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-22 21:10:05","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\/301","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=301"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.swisswuff.ch\/tech\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10715,"href":"https:\/\/www.swisswuff.ch\/tech\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301\/revisions\/10715"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swisswuff.ch\/tech\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swisswuff.ch\/tech\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swisswuff.ch\/tech\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swisswuff.ch\/tech\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}