<div dir="ltr">Right, so someone needs to hack this to be usable without a prosthetic arm (just based off brain or shoulder reading), then market it. And probably either convince the guy who made it to help, or reverse engineer what he has done and recreate it.<div><br></div><div>Anyone up for the task?</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Feb 18, 2020 at 3:47 PM SR Ballard via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">The demand for a prosthetic arm which does these thing is low. <div><br></div><div>And demand for any technology which people don’t know exists is going to be quite low. 0 probably.</div><div><br></div><div>If people knew it was possible for there to be one, right now, there might actually be demand.<br><br><div dir="ltr">SR Ballard</div><div dir="ltr"><br>2020/02/18 15:47、Adrian Tymes via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>>のメール:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">The demand for controlling a synthesizer with thoughts alone - being able to create music while kicking back in one's chair, lying in bed, or otherwise mobility-limited (such as on a bus/train/airplane, presumably with headphones) - is low? That doesn't seem correct.</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Feb 18, 2020 at 12:11 PM SR Ballard via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">Well, this wasn’t exactly a “lab” setting. But likely a while as demand is low.<br><br><div dir="ltr">SR Ballard</div><div dir="ltr"><br>2020/02/17 22:05、Adrian Tymes via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>>のメール:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Now, when does this go from a neat trick in a lab, to commercial?</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Feb 17, 2020 at 8:44 AM SR Ballard via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><h1 style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;line-height:1.2;padding:0px"><font size="3"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Musician Hacks Prosthetic Arm To Control Synthesizer With His Thoughts</span></font></h1><div><font size="3"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"><br></span></font></div><div><a href="https://bay-observer.com/musician-hacks-prosthetic-arm-to-control-synthesizer-with-his-thoughts-2" target="_blank">https://bay-observer.com/musician-hacks-prosthetic-arm-to-control-synthesizer-with-his-thoughts-2</a></div><div><br></div><div>“<span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Bertolt Meyer, 42, was born without a lower left arm.</span></div><p style="box-sizing:border-box;padding:0px;margin:0px 0px 1em;line-height:1.8"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">He has worn a prosthetic arm since he was 3 months old, but now wears a high-tech “i-limb” that looks like something out of a futuristic sci-fi movie.</span></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;padding:0px;margin:0px 0px 1em;line-height:1.8"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">The i-limb is a myoelectric prosthesis, which uses electrical signals from the muscles inside the residual limb to control the prosthesis.</span></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;padding:0px;margin:0px 0px 1em;line-height:1.8"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">As a musician, Meyer had the idea to swap out the prosthetic hand for a DIY controller for his modular synthesizers so he can play music just by thinking about it.”</span></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;padding:0px;margin:0px 0px 1em;line-height:1.8">> x post from transhumanism reddit</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;padding:0px;margin:0px 0px 1em;line-height:1.8">Very cool! </p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;padding:0px;margin:0px 0px 1em;line-height:1.8">SR Ballard</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;padding:0px;margin:0px 0px 1em;line-height:1.8"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"><br></span></p><br><div id="gmail-m_-1225085370292679654gmail-m_-6848334306270053049gmail-m_-2161530463441200930AppleMailSignature" dir="ltr">Sent from my iPhone</div></div>_______________________________________________<br>
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