Ironing a shirt using Otto Bock hook prosthesis

This is a response to TouchBionics "get a grip on functionality" demo videos http://www.touchbionics.com/professionals.php?pageid=44&section=5 and to Darin's demos on http://theadventuresoftheilimb.wordpress.com/

I like to be able to extremely fast, extremely smoothly and without much technological overhead work through technical situations.

I am using an Otto Bock MovoHook 2Grip 10A80 on a cable controlled arm.

Doing laundry and ironing and folding clothes is something I routinely do. Grasp/pinch operations are small in extent but often fast to allow for an overall smooth course of the job. I don't have to recharge any battery, the hook (or hand, if I use that) is ultra responsive particularly compared to some of the bionic myoelectric demos we see.

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To those representatives of the Fondation de la Haute Horlogerie http://www.hautehorlogerie.org that visually allude to amputees with 'fake people' in that ill fated 2009 ad campaign: I am real, authentic and if at all I wear real watches. And this is a real hot real iron that I am using here. Trust me on that. Thank you for taking note.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• amputee
• amputation
• hook
• below
• elbow
• ironing
• house
• work
• Otto
• Bock
• MovoHook

[captain0ldy0da]

ooh, at first was it hard to use? it looks complicated? how does it work?

[swisswuff]

will power (mostly)

[WQ673]

I mean also, that a hook is better than a complicated bio-elektrik protheses, because it is more simple and therefore more solid and more robust.

Also as a legprotheses the most practic is a pegleg. My wife is going by sutch a pegleg and she would never want an other complicated protheses because sutche is not so save and light.

[captain0ldy0da]

I am sorry for the loss of your arm :(