Dispensary Corner 16 Apr 13
April 16, 2013
YES , there’s an app for that.
A company in Scotland has
released a new prosthetic hand
which can be controlled via a
smartphone application.
Dubbed i-limb (of course), the
prosthesis from Touch Bionics
incorporates a powered rotating
thumb, 24 grip options and “extra
sensitive electrodes”.
The powered rotation of the
thumb can be controlled by the
wearer’s muscle signals, or can
move automatically into position
as part of a pre-set gesture or
pattern activated by the App.
IT was a messy job, but police in
the US state of New Hampshire
have recovered a $3200
engagement ring which was
allegedly swallowed by a robber
during an attempted jewelry store
theft.
Ronald Perley has been charged
with “falsifying physical evidence”
after X-rays showed the 14-carat
white gold ring with princess-cut
diamonds inside his body.
He apparently went into the
store asking about engagement
rings - then grabbed one
and swallowed it after being
confronted by staff in the shop.
According to later reports
officers now have the ring in their
possession, after presumably
waiting for nature to take its
course.
Lingerie controversy has
erupted in France after a doctor
suggested that bras are useless.
62-year-old Jean-Denis Rouillon
said preliminary results from his
research, on 330 women aged 18-
35, suggested that wearing a bra
from an early age does nothing to
help a wearer’s breasts.
“The suspension system of the
breasts degenerates,” he said,
adding that ill-fitting underwear
also affects circulation.
However he doesn’t think his
research is universally applicable.
“A middle-aged woman,
overweight, with 2.4 children? I’m
not at all sure she’d benefit from
abandoning bras,” he added.
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