Terminator tech seems to have begun seeping through cracks in time from the future as scientists in Britain have developed a cutting-edge Vader claw with fingers that move and react independently, based on interpreted muscle signals from the remains of the hand or stump:
It is the first of its kind, treating each multi-jointed finger as a unique functional unit.
Developed by Touch Bionics, based in Livingston, Scotland, the Terminator-style prosthetic is on show this week at a medical expo in Leipzig, Germany.
Its movements can even be fine-tuned by computer using Bluetooth technology.
ProDigits, which costs up to £40,000, follows the firm’s 2007 i-LIMB Hand, a prosthetic device with five individually powered fingers.
If I’m ever unfortunate enough to lose my hand, I am so getting one of these, and so shall the Darth Vader phase of my life begin:
See watching TV:
I have altered the channel, pray I don’t alter it any further.
