http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2012/11/13/new-skin-a-plastic-that-heals-itself-conducts-electricity-and-is-sensitive-to-touch/ Mon, 22 Apr 2013 21:34:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2012/11/13/new-skin-a-plastic-that-heals-itself-conducts-electricity-and-is-sensitive-to-touch/#comment-34705 Melissa Brooks Sun, 25 Nov 2012 03:51:08 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/?p=41350#comment-34705 Amazing. The possibility of touch-sensitive prosthetic limbs will be life-changing for people all over the world. I only hope that time, money and brainpower is put into that technology just as much as heart-rate monitors for exercise junkies. The money is with the latter group. Kids and farmers are the ones most in need of prosthetics due to land mines, but is there any group with sufficient funding working to bring this needed technology to them? Amazing. The possibility of touch-sensitive prosthetic limbs will be life-changing for people all over the world. I only hope that time, money and brainpower is put into that technology just as much as heart-rate monitors for exercise junkies. The money is with the latter group. Kids and farmers are the ones most in need of prosthetics due to land mines, but is there any group with sufficient funding working to bring this needed technology to them?

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