KNOWLEDGE SHALL INCREASE:The bionic hand that behaves as though it was real thing

STEVE Austin, the bionic man,was hero to a generation of children who grew up in the 1970s. "We can rebuild him. We have the technology" ran the introduction to The Six Million Dollar Man, the cult TV drama starring Lee Majors as a test pilot whose wrecked body was reconstructed at considerable cost, enabling him to run at 60 miles per hour and lift a car with one hand.
Yesterday a Scottish company,Touch Bionics,also declared:"We have the technology,"with their announcement that they had successfully developed the world's first commercially available bionic hand.While the i-LIMB Hand may not bequeath its user with the strength of Mr Austin,it has transformed the lives of patients around the world and comes with a more reasonable price tag of £9,000.The prosthetic device offers greater mobility and authenticity than any previous artificial hand.It allows users to perform far more nimble tasks such as holding a card or turning a key in a lock.The hand has five individually powered digits that can bend like natural fingers and has revolutionised the abilities of patients.Among the first to use the i-LIMB were members of the American military, where amputations have increased dramatically as a result of the Iraq war.
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