Ever think how cool it would be to be a cyborg? 15 year old UK-native Chloe Holmes isn’t quite half robot, but she is the youngest person to have movable bionic fingers!
When Chloe was a toddler, she lost almost all of her fingers on both hands to a life-threatening disease called septicaemia. Up until now, she had a rubber hand that she didn’t enjoy wearing too much, saying, “It didn’t move so it was quite frustrating… I couldn’t really do a lot.” Her new bionic hand, however, works with sensors inside the hand that react to the nerve endings in her arm.
The whole contraption didn’t come cheap, costing Chloe’s parents £38,000 (approx $54,160 CAD), but they say it was worth it for her to move her fingers again.
If Inspector Gadget would have us believe anything, it’s first stop: moving fingers, second stop: helicopter propellers coming out of a hat. Thanks to cases like Chloe’s, we know we’re one step closer to having helicopter propellers coming out of our hats.
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