In the American post-apocalyptic horror television series The Walking Dead , redneck hunter Merle Dixon fashions a knife attachment onto the stump where his hand used to be. While the storyline is...
We are living through an incredibly exciting period for prosthetics. A pioneering brain computer interface that will allow veterans to control artificial body parts with their minds was recently...
In the field of medicine, a prosthesis is a man-made device used to replace a missing body part. Although one may think that the use of prosthetic devices is a modern phenomenon, it was already in...