An I-limb for Brit Amputee: World’s Most Advanced Prosthetic

A Brit student is now the proud owner of the world’s most technologically advanced prosthetic limb – aptly named the i-limb. This is after the 19-year-old lost his left hand in a car accident.

i-Limb is a fully functional prosthetic arm which can be controlled by electronic muscle signals from the remaining part of the limb.

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Evan Reynolds, the sports biology student at University of the West of England (UWE), in Bristol, was the second person in Britain to be fitted with the advanced i-LIMB hand.

Reynolds the resident of Haslemere, Surrey, said he adapted to the product in just a few minutes.

The innovation boasts five independently powered digits, which operate like a human hand when closing around an object.

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Reynolds was a rugby-player, who had dreamed of joining the Army and going to Sandhurst, had his left hand ripped off when a friend drove him home following a day out.

Developed by a Scottish company, Touch Bionics, the i-Limb has won awards for its innovative technology.

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And the total cost including the hand itself and the fitting is about 30,000 dollars.

Reynolds was fitted with the i-Limb after his older brother Richard saw a television report about the product and contacted the manufacturer.

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While the firm was still working on a prototype at the time, but following a number of tests and meetings with prosthetic specialists, Reynolds had the i-LIMB fitted in February last year.

"The most amazing thing about it was how quickly I adapted to it. People always ask how it's changed my life, but there's no specific thing," The Telegraph quoted him as saying.

He added: "It's the hundreds of everyday things you take for granted, which I can do again, like peeling a potato, catching a ball, holding a bottle of water. I'm incredibly grateful.

"It's so sensitive I can grip a bottle of water or a paper cup without crushing it, and even swing a racket. All I have to so is imagine picking something up or gripping it and the fingers and thumb move automatically."

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