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Understanding our Cyborg lives, redescribing our reality
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New metric to track prosthetic arm progress (11/4/2012)

New metric to track prosthetic arm progress (11/4/2012) | Cyborg Lives | Scoop.it

Amputees with a new prosthetic arm must learn how to use their device to perform everyday tasks that were once second nature. Taking off a shirt becomes a conscious, multistep effort: grasp the shirt, lift the shirt over the head, pull arms through the sleeves, place the shirt on the table, let go of the shirt.

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Robots and Avatars - Our Colleagues and Playmates of the Future

Robots and Avatars - Our Colleagues and Playmates of the Future | Cyborg Lives | Scoop.it
This innovative project explores how young people will work and play with new representational forms of themselves and others in virtual and physical life in the next 10-15 years.

Via Kalani Kirk Hausman, Sakis Koukouvis
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