{"id":6135,"date":"2016-06-04T07:58:45","date_gmt":"2016-06-04T05:58:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.swisswuff.ch\/tech\/?p=6135"},"modified":"2023-11-22T12:11:50","modified_gmt":"2023-11-22T11:11:50","slug":"prosthetic-arm-hook-as-human-enhancement-cyborg-realprosthetics-to-handle-meat-grill-frying-pan-what-transhumanists-bioethicists-and-media-hypes-all-tend-to-miss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swisswuff.ch\/tech\/?p=6135","title":{"rendered":"Prosthetic arm \/ hook as “human enhancement” #cyborg #realprosthetics to handle meat \/ grill \/ frying pan (what transhumanists, bioethicists and media hypes tend to miss)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bioethicists, prosthetists and transhumanists focus on their collective “bionic” assumptions to bundle their fears and hopes. There is even a trend called Transhumanism [link<\/a>].<\/p>\n

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But as we know by now, “bionic” hands do not deliver. Not really.<\/p>\n

You can wave them around, but even when attending a user workshop and discussing how to change a bike tire, the company product ambassador recommends taking the wheel to a bicycle shop. No one selling “bionic” prosthetic hands advises to use them to reach into a 200 deg C hot oven or to turn grill meat or touch oven trays that are that hot. When I saw a woman seemingly employed by Touch Bionics \/ \u00d6ssur hammer some nail using her “bionic” iLimb device, I wondered whether that was legitimate advertising so I mailed the company – turns out that hammer use does not even conform to their product documentation \/ legalese.<\/p>\n

So, not really. Can’t use these devices for such.<\/p>\n

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