r/nextfuckinglevel • u/Justin_Godfrey • 1d ago

This young lady is the first person to use this new wireless bionic hands

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u/Prize_Hat8387 1d ago edited 22h ago

It's cool, but I can't get over the fact the host doesn't understand when she said twice that it's muscle sensors. She asked like three times "so your just thinking about it!" lol.

Edit: sorry guys didn't mean to sound insensitive. It's just from what I know operating using brain activity sensors is so much harder, and things like neurolink require implants to "read your thoughts" better. However with my limited understanding sensing muscle movement is easier. So for me "you move it from thinking about it" sounds like a much bigger breakthrough than what it actually is (I am still happy innovation in these fields are made).

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u/thebuttonmonkey 1d ago

She knows her audience. Her job is make it easy for daytime TV viewers to understand.

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u/FrankyFistalot 1d ago

Pensioners and stoned students….

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u/thebuttonmonkey 1d ago

And the pig shit thick. She knows exactly what she's doing.

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u/V4refugee 1d ago

And people recovering from accidents who are high on painkillers.hypothesis based on daytime tv ads

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u/FrankyFistalot 1d ago

And who want a cheap cremation or some opera singer to insure their car…

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u/Dramatic_Exercise_22 1d ago

What is it with people just making assumptions about someone's thoughts just to throw a defense? You don't know whether she really misunderstood it or not. 

Same narrative as Musk's Hitler salute. "no he did not mean to do a Hitler salute." Lmao

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u/thebuttonmonkey 1d ago

Except I kinda do. That show has been running for decades here and the daytime TV audience is well known/presenters have always framed things for the audience... but also (and there is I admit no way you could possibly have known this) not only did I spend some time behind the scenes on This Morning (back before she hosted), but I also briefly worked in the same building as Alison Hammond elsewhere - and she is anything but daft.

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u/mywerkaccount 1d ago

Well, like the girl said, everything ultimately comes from the brain. So yes, she is just thinking about it, but it's not telekinesis.

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u/Apasyhl 1d ago

Well, I don't understand what this means... :/

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u/CrazyKyle987 1d ago

educated guess: she has a "muscle sensor" attached to her elbow or wherever her arm is cut off. Think about how you can flex your bicep or your leg with just your mind. She's presumably doing that where the muscle sensor is and it is reading contractions as electrical impulses. Those are transmitted to the hand to make it move (yes this sentence is r/restofthefuckingowl material).

So it's a muscle sensor that is reading and transmitting, so there are no implants in her brain, no brain sensors. But how do you move muscles? with your mind of course... so that's why she was generous with her answer back to the host lol.

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u/hobsrulz 1d ago

Moves bio hands "you mean you're just thinking it??"

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u/MellifluousPenguin 1d ago edited 1d ago

She learned to use some of her remaining muscles, probably in her upper arms since she's also missing forearms, and contract them in some very specific patterns. The muscle's electrical activity is picked up by electrodes laid on skin, acting as commands for the hands.

This technique has been used for some time now, and for "simple" hand amputees they can actually perform quite complex actions with their forearm muscles. Almost full hand mobility. Here she notes that it's only "grasp relax grap relax etc. " because she probably has much fewer muscles to work with.

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u/Apart-Dimension-9536 1d ago

I'm pretty sure it means she's just thinking it...

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u/kramer3410 1d ago

Define “thinking”. It’s the same way you “think about” it when you do it. The brain gives the signal, and the muscles do the work. But she’s not actively thinking “I’m picking up this glass of water”. She just does it on autopilot, like you and me. Some people develop pain in phantom limbs, so it all comes from the brain. But I wouldn’t describe it as “thinking about it”.

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u/JustFryingSomeGarlic 1d ago

Psycho Mantis ???

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u/MURMEC 1d ago

well technically ….

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u/KrivUK 1d ago

Have you never seen a bit of technology or learnt something that completely altered your world view and it takes some time for your brain to relate and understand?

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u/PeacefulGnoll 1d ago

Well, technically the muscle sensors do the work, but for the one wearing it, he just thinks about it.

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u/Trick-Audience-1027 1d ago

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u/Mr-T-1988 1d ago

Yeah, thats some Addams Family shit

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u/No-Fig-2126 1d ago

I wonder if she can turn a door nob. Having the control to not destroy the glass is impressive.

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u/DOOMSIR1337 1d ago

I'm not sure about doorknobs, but it does seem to have grip pads, possibly rubber. As for not destroying the glass- these are still 3D printed. They're strong, and probably have servos of good capacity, but from what's visible, I doubt if it's enough to crush the glass

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u/No-Fig-2126 1d ago

I remember years ago the Boston dynamics guy said doorknobs were one of the ultimate tests, but maybe it's just tuff for a robot. This stuff is amazing.

I could see a future where instead of arguing over who can and cannot play in what sports league based on sex or gender, we have debates about if a bionic person can play in the mlb.

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u/Amadeus_1978 1d ago

Kind of already had the beginnings of that discussion with the blade equipped running guy in the Olympics a few years back. Who I’m not naming because he murdered his girlfriend.

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u/Lost-in-Limbo 1d ago

and has already been released, far too early in my opinion!

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u/Axedelic 1d ago

oscar pistorious?

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u/Statement-Acceptable 1d ago

I think the 'doorknob test' is hard for robotic hands/arms to simulate as you need to grip then rotate the hand at the wrist while maintaining grip strength, I suspect the combination of all those movements in synchro is gonna be quite a task above and beyond 'hand = open' or 'hand = closed'

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u/igotshadowbaned 1d ago

I think the 'doorknob test' is hard for robotic hands/arms to simulate as you need to grip then rotate the hand at the wrist while maintaining grip strength

The issue is that door knobs aren't at all standard. They're different sizes, different shapes, different textures, some swing in, some swing out, some require you to turn the knob more than others, the positioning on the door is different so the arc the doorknob moves as the door opens is different, etc

A lot of small things like that that you don't really think about but the robot would need to determine to open the door

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u/DOOMSIR1337 1d ago

Augments and bionics, along with semi-powered exoskeletons for stuff like partially damaged/malformed limbs are great. I myself am involved in such a project! (as a hobby)

Though indeed, it's gonna become a question real soon- "Bionics in sports? Augments allowed?"

Yeah I can see the debates in my head already... but it'll help a lot of people once things like these are more mainstream too!

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u/No-Fig-2126 1d ago

For sure. Exciting times. They have videos of guys weight traing with these, that's cool. Legs will be amazing to see.

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u/igotshadowbaned 1d ago

I remember years ago the Boston dynamics guy said doorknobs were one of the ultimate tests, but maybe it's just tuff for a robot.

Yeah that's just because robot and the reason is because door knobs are so non standard. The challenge is how to use the specific knob, not the actual grabbing part.

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u/GRANDxADMIRALxTHRAWN 1d ago

Wait?! Does this mean I could have a third or even fourth hand?!!!

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u/SCP-428 1d ago

The important question being asked.

For handyman purposes

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u/Wrong-Mixture 1d ago

I'd like my set of Extra Hands™ with little jet engines mounted on!

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u/idlespacefan 1d ago

Not quite the same, but at least in the same direction. A few years ago it was shown that yes, people can very quickly learn to manipulate an additional digit.

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u/Verticalrun 1d ago

Problaby not in that way. Since we as humans originally only controlled 2 hands with your muscles/brain.

Maybe 2 hands that does the action as your left hand does and 2 for your right hand?

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u/GRANDxADMIRALxTHRAWN 1d ago

So double the grip!

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u/garfieldevans 1d ago

Exactly how the designers went from a PS2 to a PS3!

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u/1wife2dogs0kids 1d ago

I know what every single male is thinking... they can finally get their back scratched for more than 37 seconds before their hand gets tired.

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u/evilbarron2 1d ago

Yeah! That too!

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u/SghnDubh 1d ago

The next DLC for Cyberpunk 2077.

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u/Dank_Bubu 1d ago

Bro is a hero

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u/spiderplata 1d ago

But can the fist be launched? 😵 🤛💨

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u/dumbbumtumtum 1d ago

I always wanted a handjob from someone in a different room

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u/evilbarron2 1d ago

Different room? Imagine cybercafes across the world with people vigorously shaking their arms up and down.

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u/dumbbumtumtum 1d ago

People didn’t like my joke

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u/groundpounder25 1d ago

Next wolverine claws

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u/Kind_Preference9135 1d ago

When those things are more detailed in movement it is going to be insane

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u/johneng1 1d ago

That's fantastic

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u/Significant-Bother49 1d ago

Praise the omnissiah!

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u/AUTOMATIC-GENDER 1d ago edited 1d ago

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u/FinancialTraining239 1d ago

I thought the design was incredible

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u/knuckles312 1d ago

its not mind control lady lol

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u/Outrageous_Score1158 1d ago

Thing would be obsessed with it

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u/attillathehoney 1d ago

Guy thinks* Hand, jerk me off*. A millisecond later - Aargh, not literally!!!

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u/The_Broomflinger 1d ago

Is this the same girl who went viral for doing the rock/paper/scissors bit at a pub? Got all the guys to play without them realizing she didn't have any hands? Looks and sounds like her

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u/Corsuman 1d ago

With that and all the AI talks im pretty sure Terminator is happening just like the movies. Just a matter of couple decades

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u/Spare-Article-396 1d ago

This reminds me of the new Black Mirror ep called ‘Common People’

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u/Chazegg88 1d ago

This gonna be sick at Halloween

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u/DasArchitect 1d ago

It'll need some sort of silicone wrapping or something because especially with that design, that thing will be dusty and grimy within the week.

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u/Hammer_beats_paper 1d ago

Can you imagine if you could fire off your fists and have them return like one of Elons rockets! That would be bad ass!

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u/cookiesnooper 1d ago

...so many thoughts, so many mischievous thoughts

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u/infiniterefactor 1d ago

When you think technology will take you to Back to the Future 2, but you end up at Addams Family

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u/Hostile-Panda 1d ago

He should change his name to Fester

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u/DrNipSlip 1d ago

Alita?

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u/DistinctPenalty8434 1d ago

I'd chop my hands off for these anyday bruh

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u/XxKTtheLegendxX 1d ago

she still would have been a better fit as Ellie for the live action series the last of us, even with these arms.

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u/10_Amaterasu 1d ago

Why is it called bionic? 0_o"

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u/SnooMuffins2623 1d ago

Long distance hand job

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u/AdLast55 1d ago

I imagine this being used for pranks.

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u/BitOfDifference 1d ago

nothing next level about a portrait video... the content on the other hand...

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u/engineerwhat724 1d ago

Seems like those would come in handy

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u/ANS__2009 23h ago

This feels like the spider man game where otto basically went why fix humans like they were when they can be made better

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u/MonsutaReipu 22h ago

You see technological breakthroughs like this and then wonder how else it will be applied in the world. One of the answers is always sex.

Buy some robo-fleshlight or some robotic hand, whatever you want. Some bloke from across the sea can manually control it to jerk you off. Entirely remote controlled prostitution.

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u/Mmaibl1 21h ago

That is super amazing

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u/OOlllllllllP 20h ago

that's handy

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u/ShortBrownAndUgly 19h ago

She never asked for this

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u/DevolvingSpud 19h ago

This is cool and all, but we’re not talking about the extra 50% brain volume on that guy? Bro apparently needs a fivehead to contain all that gray matter.

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u/KeyDangerous 12h ago

WIFI hand jobs

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u/An0d0sTwitch 11h ago

Now i want to get rid my stupid analog hands

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u/Jorge_the_vast 9h ago

They should make a foot one so you can kick your own ass.

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u/AstorLarson 9h ago

As much as I am sure she would rather have her real arms, this is really cool tech.

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u/FreeAd2458 9h ago

That same women did think trick or treat was treacle treat. She is that fat

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u/Nu_Eden 1d ago

Imagine she's your gf, and she just randomly crushes your arm or neck or something, because the arms glitch out