Arm or a Leg

[Spocknasty]

Originally Posted by Scapegoat

its time for some crazy awesome titanium body parts man. hip replacement, get your **** cut off from under the knee and get some of those crazy ass prosthetic legs that let you run 30mph and jump like shaq!

i'm not even kidding. if i was in your position i'd seriously be looking into aftermarket parts... carbon fiber and titanium **** all over with computer stuff integrated into it somehow for something

amen. put in a system to supply your body with nutrients while you go throughout your day.

[Scapegoat]

Originally Posted by CRXed

amen. put in a system to supply your body with nutrients while you go throughout your day.

get some crazy juice going on haha, like Bane

[lownslow95]

I'd rather lose my non-dominant arm, coming from a person who is right handed, so I could care less about my left arm.

[HickRocket1258]

Would rather lose a non dominant arm. There's a guy that drag races a low 7 second dragster with one arm and is real good too.

[DPancoast]

arm, I could deal with it.

[GOULET]

left arm. take it. i'm slightly ambidextrous but you can have it lol. I'll just shift and steer with the right.

oh **** wait. what if i ever get a rhd car...........**** this thread.

[Shoolig]

I'd lose my leg just since I can't make killer pectorals with no arms... it's all about the bitches.

[captainhook]

Originally Posted by Subie_sleeper

ahem......

Sorry Rob, no credit where it was due. It was most certainly your idea/handiwork to start putting automotive decals on my arm, lol. I'm gonna need a new set of decals, I'm upgrading the arm soon.

[87fierogt]

Originally Posted by Scapegoat

its time for some crazy awesome titanium body parts man. hip replacement, get your **** cut off from under the knee and get some of those crazy ass prosthetic legs that let you run 30mph and jump like shaq!

i'm not even kidding. if i was in your position i'd seriously be looking into aftermarket parts... carbon fiber and titanium **** all over with computer stuff integrated into it somehow for something

im gettin my back done first but its the 4th for the same thing which makes it 10xs more complicated and it involves the nerves and **** on my spine so im nervous as hell so when i stop bein a pussy about surgery im gonna do it but i hate surgery so ill stick with the meds right now but next will be the hip which is 3 surgerys and the socket and the part that goes in will titanium. next it to get the bones in my feet cut then straightined after that ill be 98% normal walking with braces like i use now but my walks all ****ed up as i sit.

so once i stop bein a pussy about it the cuttin starts but if the pain meds are help im gonna stay put i dont wanna lose more feeling with the spine **** but i trust the dr 100% hes been there since day one. i still pull bitchs so im happy

[captainhook]

Originally Posted by Scapegoat

its time for some crazy awesome titanium body parts man. hip replacement, get your **** cut off from under the knee and get some of those crazy ass prosthetic legs that let you run 30mph and jump like shaq!

i'm not even kidding. if i was in your position i'd seriously be looking into aftermarket parts... carbon fiber and titanium **** all over with computer stuff integrated into it somehow for something

Lol, my left femur and part of my pelvis is titanium, it's not all it's cracked up to be there. But my arm is another story, the motor for my hooks could overpower and bend the stock aluminum fingers, so I had some titanium jobbies made up. There it makes a huge difference. As for integrated computer stuff, I'm very seriously looking at picking up one of these when I upgrade to a new arm: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMFrL7xt7kI
iLIMB FTW! And now you can get an extremely realistic skin for it. Only one negative, 50K price tag, lol.

[DC2.2GSR]

Originally Posted by captainhook

Lol, my left femur and part of my pelvis is titanium, it's not all it's cracked up to be there. But my arm is another story, the motor for my hooks could overpower and bend the stock aluminum fingers, so I had some titanium jobbies made up. There it makes a huge difference. As for integrated computer stuff, I'm very seriously looking at picking up one of these when I upgrade to a new arm: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMFrL7xt7kI
iLIMB FTW! And now you can get an extremely realistic skin for it. Only one negative, 50K price tag, lol.

that looks awesome. i wonder though... what holds it back from being quick and responsive like a normal hand, the 'brain' interpreting and sending signals from the nerves or the actual motor mechanisms? i'm sure it would all come with time in future models and all, but that's just something i've always wondered about. it seems to me like the computer tech would be there to send and recieve signals fast enough, and that the motors need to catch up, but at the same time it seems like the motors could probably do so much more than they are now and that makes it seem like the computer tech needs to catch up. hmm....

[87fierogt]

i wonder what type of motors they have brushed or brushless

[~Brian~]

I would rather lose a leg. You can hide the prosthetic leg under jeans or whatever. If you lose your arm, there are just so many things that you will not be able to do again.

[captainhook]

To be honest I'm not sure about the type of motors, although I know they're coming out with a revised version soon with stronger motors in the fingers. Currently the pinch force is only like 2-3 lbs on the iLIMB. My current ETD (electronic terminal device) with titanium hooks is over 20 lbs of pinch force, or at least it was when it was new.
As far as things catching up, the thing that needs to catch up the most is the process of integrating artificial mechanicals and electronics with human flesh+nervous system signals. There has been a successful test subject that controlled a prosthetic arm by using only a brain-implanted chip. (essentially becoming the first cyborg in existence) But it's still deep in the testing phase and is only being tested by the military at this point.
As far as lag, I honestly have very little "lag" to speak of in my myo-electric hybrid arm setup. Once it becomes second nature and you don't need to think about, the lag really isn't very noticeable. The lag that does occur in my setup though, is 90% motor/mechanical related. As my arm has gotten older and the motor has lost some of it's juice this has become slightly more apparent.

[Scapegoat]

he uses that iLIMB for pretty much everything i use my left hand for. pretty slick.

[captainhook]

Yeah, the professionals I've spoken with that have fitted them say they're lightyears ahead of anything else on the market.

[DC2.2GSR]

Originally Posted by captainhook

There has been a successful test subject that controlled a prosthetic arm by using only a brain-implanted chip. (essentially becoming the first cyborg in existence) But it's still deep in the testing phase and is only being tested by the military at this point.

i remember seeing that or something like it on a Modern Marvels episode (from a google search: Season 14, Ep. 38)... "Super Human" was the title of the show. it was sick, the guy was sitting next to this artificial hand and it he was making it move with the nerve signals only. there were all kinds of wires going into his head and arm. definitely in the developmental stages, but amazing nonetheless.