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moon_custafer ([personal profile] moon_custafer) wrote2012-09-10 08:23 pm

Fingertips, fingertips, fingerti-ips!

A guy who started out making hand extensions for cosplay is now working with a man who lost two whole fingers and two half-fingers in a accident, to make a homebrew prosthetic. So far they've come up with a tip for the index finger, which judging by the video already makes a big difference.

[identity profile] handful-ofdust.livejournal.com 2012-09-11 12:26 am (UTC)(link)
That is absolutely amazing.;)

[identity profile] moon-custafer.livejournal.com 2012-09-11 01:04 am (UTC)(link)
I was impressed by the simplicity of how it fits on. Of course it helps that the wearer has a couple of half-fingers, so there's something to work the prosthetic.

[identity profile] leave-harmony.livejournal.com 2012-09-11 01:57 am (UTC)(link)
I can't figure out how the bleedin' heck it even works.
Cooool.

[identity profile] donald hutton (from livejournal.com) 2012-09-11 05:36 am (UTC)(link)
Well things Japanese were always at the forefront of prosthetics ever since that project to help ex-Yakuza members integrate into societies by replacing the fingers they got chopped off for making mistakes while in the gangs.

[identity profile] moon-custafer.livejournal.com 2012-09-11 10:45 am (UTC)(link)
No, the cosplayer is N. American.