Hi Tracey, He's taken accessorizing to a limit...
One cannot presume he's read Donna Haraway's 'A CyborgManifesto', but it does give us a glimpse of a future where people adapt themselves physically with the technology the use. marc > that is amazing! just wondering how he will manage upgrades?! > > On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 8:10 PM, marc garrett > <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> > wrote: > > Man gets smartphone dock built into prosthetic arm. > > A British man has become the world's first ever patient to have a > smartphone docking system built into his prosthetic arm. > > Trevor Prideaux, who was born without his left arm, used to have to > balance the smartphone on his prosthetic arm or put it on a flat > surface > to use it. > > But now Mr Prideaux, 50, can call and text his loved ones without > moving > the mobile, which is embedded into his fibreglass and laminate limb. > > The catering manager sought help from medical experts and > communications > chiefs at Nokia to build the special prosthethic. > > They carefully carved a phone shaped fibrecast cradle into the > skin-coloured prototype, allowing his Nokia C7 to sit inside it. > > > http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/8848476/Man-gets-smartphone-dock-built-into-prosthetic-arm.html > > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > > > > > -- > Dr Tracey Meziane Benson (aka bytetime) > Adjunct Postdoctoral Fellow || The Australian National University || > School of Music > You can find *bytetime *on twitter, delicious, scribd, flickr, > linkedin, identica, slideshare and facebook. Skype me at *mediakult* > *websites:* > www.byte-time.net <http://www.byte-time.net/> > www.xconnectmedia.com <http://www.xconnectmedia.com/> > www.fauxonomy.org <http://www.fauxonomy.org/> > *blogs:* > geokult.com/ <http://geokult.wordpress.com/> > dorkbotcbr.wordpress.com/ <http://dorkbotcbr.wordpress.com/> > mediakult.wordpress.com/ <http://mediakult.wordpress.com/> > *wiki:* > mediakult.wetpaint.com/ <http://mediakult.wetpaint.com/> > > > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
