Love the visual you just conjured for me! Arrr me hearties! On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 10:29 PM, Richard Wright < [email protected]> wrote:
> Curious to see that sexy new smartphone docked next to his prosthetic > hook-for-a-hand that is more reminiscent of a seventeenth century pirate > captain. That is cyberpunk indeed... > > > > > *From: *marc garrett <[email protected]> > *Date: *28 October 2011 10:10:16 BDT > *To: *NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity < > [email protected]> > *Subject: **[NetBehaviour] Man gets smartphone dock built into prosthetic > arm.* > *Reply-To: *NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity < > [email protected]> > > > 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] > 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 www.xconnectmedia.com www.fauxonomy.org *blogs:* geokult.com/ <http://geokult.wordpress.com/> dorkbotcbr.wordpress.com/ mediakult.wordpress.com/ *wiki:* mediakult.wetpaint.com/
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