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Bionic Hand Gives Amputees Sense of Touch

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That was the first time he had met a person with a limb difference. Akhtar and Nguyen flew to Quito, Ecuador, to test their product on Juan Suquillo, who lost his left hand during a 1979 border war between Ecuador and Peru. The Ability Hand is also water-resistant, Akhtar says. Everything that we do has the patient in mind.".

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Flight Simulator Gave Birth to 3D Video-Game Graphics

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Still, its first-person 3D visuals were ahead of the curve, predating more famous hits like Atari’s Battlezone. “I Previously, land between airports had been represented by patches of color—green for forests, gray for urban, blue for water. It included a bird’s-eye perspective of locales like Machu Picchu, in Peru.

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