{"id":372,"date":"2010-12-10T01:53:20","date_gmt":"2010-12-09T23:53:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.swisswuff.ch\/tech\/?p=372"},"modified":"2012-01-19T14:39:06","modified_gmt":"2012-01-19T12:39:06","slug":"district-9-come-alive-ii-the-tentacle-what-we-really-want-sci-fi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swisswuff.ch\/tech\/?p=372","title":{"rendered":"District 9 Come Alive II &#8211; The Tentacle [what we really want \/ Sci Fi]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I already wanted a tentacle <a href=\"http:\/\/www.swisswuff.ch\/tech\/?p=303\" target=\"_blank\">back in April, after watching District 9<\/a> as prosthetic arm \/ prosthetic hand. Tentacles are prosthesis are not available so far. So we would be looking at a new general idea here.<\/p>\n<p>Now, a new design is out.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I want one like this badly, I really do:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.swisswuff.ch\/images\/d9\/kk1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100%\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.swisswuff.ch\/images\/d9\/kk2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100%\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.swisswuff.ch\/images\/d9\/kk3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100%\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.swisswuff.ch\/images\/d9\/kk4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100%\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.swisswuff.ch\/images\/d9\/kk5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100%\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Kaylene Kau designed this as supportive device for a dominant hand. As that, it does have a lot going for it. And before wasting time on theory and on explaining why &#8211; I want to try this thing out.<\/p>\n<p>Links:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedesignblog.org\/entry\/prosthetic-arm-adjusts-to-allow-different-grips-for-a-variety-of-tasks\" target=\"_blank\">thedesignblog<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.coroflot.com\/kaylenek\/prosthetic-arm\/1?school_name=University+of+Washington,+College+of+Built+Environments&amp;\" target=\"_blank\">Kaylene Kau Portfolio<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\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>I already wanted a tentacle back in April, after watching District 9 as prosthetic arm \/ prosthetic hand. Tentacles are prosthesis are not available so far. So we would be looking at a new general idea here. Now, a new design is out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prosthetics","category-science-fiction","wpcat-8-id","wpcat-7-id"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-02 07:24:54","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\/372","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=372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.swisswuff.ch\/tech\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swisswuff.ch\/tech\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swisswuff.ch\/tech\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swisswuff.ch\/tech\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}