Clive Thompson on Nostr: Behold the "third thumb" ... ... an artificial new appendage You strap it to a wrist, ...
Behold the "third thumb" ...
... an artificial new appendage
You strap it to a wrist, and control it with two pressure pads -- one beneath your big toe, left and right foot
With only a minute or two of getting used to it, hundreds of test subjects could use it the thumb to do all sorts of stuff ...
...like pick up more objects than one hand can normally hold, or unscrew a bottle one-handed
Item #3 in my latest "Linkfest" newsletter, free to read and subscribe to here https://buttondown.com/clivethompson/archive/linkfest-25-the-third-thumb-prairie-strips-and/
... an artificial new appendage
You strap it to a wrist, and control it with two pressure pads -- one beneath your big toe, left and right foot
With only a minute or two of getting used to it, hundreds of test subjects could use it the thumb to do all sorts of stuff ...
...like pick up more objects than one hand can normally hold, or unscrew a bottle one-handed
Item #3 in my latest "Linkfest" newsletter, free to read and subscribe to here https://buttondown.com/clivethompson/archive/linkfest-25-the-third-thumb-prairie-strips-and/