{"id":4259,"date":"2015-01-17T14:54:43","date_gmt":"2015-01-17T12:54:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.swisswuff.ch\/tech\/?p=4259"},"modified":"2019-12-01T20:13:39","modified_gmt":"2019-12-01T18:13:39","slug":"ilimb-ultra-revolution-band-hand-day-what-you-must-consider","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swisswuff.ch\/tech\/?p=4259","title":{"rendered":"iLimb Ultra Revolution &#8220;bad hand day&#8221; [what you must consider]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With all that can be said about prosthetic hands, particularly inasmuch as surfing the overpriced under-functional segment, one still cannot overstate the aspects of the domain concerning &#8220;useless&#8221;, &#8220;screwed&#8221;, &#8220;beyond repair&#8221; and maybe (still) &#8220;beyond understanding&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->So, I wanted to put on the iLimb myoelectric arm today. Yesterday, software update (&#8220;biosim&#8221;, 2.9.1.22) and firmware update seemed to have installed fine.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The electrodes do not touch my skin.<\/li>\n<li>They at least do not appear to do so.<\/li>\n<li>They may but one does not know.<\/li>\n<li>To find out, I need the &#8220;biosim&#8221; desktop software to display the signal levels.<\/li>\n<li>In fact I required that my &#8220;bionic&#8221; hand allows me (the user) to interfere with actual signal levels to begin with.<\/li>\n<li>Hard requirement,\u00a0 because even tough &#8220;Prince Hand builder&#8221; at Royal Touch Bionics lacks the extra brain to understand why end users may need access to control features, I perfectly well know that my stump changes volume a bit.<\/li>\n<li>But Touchbionics figured, why let the users see and set signal levels.<\/li>\n<li>Touchbionics figured: let only professional prosthetic technicians see and set signal levels.<\/li>\n<li>So it seems they downgraded us users.<\/li>\n<li>To do that requires a mental image of arm amputees that warrants a bit of flogging.<\/li>\n<li>In fact, I just lost most sympathies just now.<\/li>\n<li>Trade ethics, quite clearly.<\/li>\n<li>Sympathies? Bang, gone. <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/-gwXJsWHupg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">GAWNE<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Besides, the hand barely connects to either the iPod or &#8220;biosim&#8221; desktop software any longer. Actually I have not been able to &#8220;connect&#8221; it to the control software for more than, maybe, a few seconds.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So basically this now is an arm that<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>has most serious electrode connection issues<\/li>\n<li>and while these may be diagnosed and checked using software, practically speaking,<\/li>\n<li>the latest software updates resulted in absent connectivity.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>That means, basically, that Touch Bionics bricked the sucker.<\/p>\n<p>Always realize, that at the snap of a finger (bwahaha), Touch Bionics can brick your hand (I guess this is a sequence of serious malfunction issues but it totally equates to what I said, from user view). And not just that they could or can &#8211; as we can clearly see, they <em>will<\/em> brick your hand. Snip, gone.<\/p>\n<p>So maybe after all, body powered technology had a lot more going for it.<\/p>\n<p>But maybe, and after all, we kinda figured that already ; )<\/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>With all that can be said about prosthetic hands, particularly inasmuch as surfing the overpriced under-functional segment, one still cannot overstate the aspects of the domain concerning &#8220;useless&#8221;, &#8220;screwed&#8221;, &#8220;beyond repair&#8221; and maybe (still) &#8220;beyond understanding&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6053,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,191,16,8,87,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bionic","category-bad-hand-day","category-brands","category-prosthetics","category-touch-bionics","category-ilimb","wpcat-49-id","wpcat-191-id","wpcat-16-id","wpcat-8-id","wpcat-87-id","wpcat-50-id"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-23 08:51:15","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\/4259","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=4259"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.swisswuff.ch\/tech\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10607,"href":"https:\/\/www.swisswuff.ch\/tech\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4259\/revisions\/10607"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swisswuff.ch\/tech\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swisswuff.ch\/tech\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swisswuff.ch\/tech\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swisswuff.ch\/tech\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}