For those with prosthetic arms, the ability to grab or hold things is greatly appreciated, but the inability to feel them -- to determine whether something is hot or cold, hard or soft -- can be frustrating...
Back in 2012, Time magazine published an article describing the plight of a 14-year-old boy named Daniel Omar, who lost both hands to a bomb dropped by his own government...
An upgrade to the high-tech BeBionic3 prosthetic hand is enabling one man to perform incredibly sophisticated operations such as dealing cards, tying his own shoelaces and touch typing on a computer keyboard...
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