Prosthetics: Fake and Awesome

Jim discusses the incredible history of fake body parts!

Echelon: http://www.endolite.com/foot_echelon.php

MacRobert Award: http://www.raeng.org.uk/prizes/macrobert/default.htm

Mummy toe: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/6918687.stm

iLimb: http://www.touchbionics.com/i-LIMB

Marcus Sergius: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_Sergius

Gotz of the Iron Hand: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6tz_von_Berlichingen

Magical Golden Eye: http://www.chnpress.com/news/?Section=2&id=6857

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• Prosthetic
• Gotz
• Iron Hand
• iLIMB
• Echelon
• Marcus Sergius
• Burnt City
• Golden Eye
• Capua Leg
• Cairo Toe
• Mr T
• pirates

[TheBarryAT]

im glad i caught this channel early =) you guys are gonna go far!

[Autobrots]

@TheBarryAT I'm just glad you caught us at all! Thanks for the encouragement!

-Jim.

[EmmaColorful1]

Great video. I love your animation too. How did you do it?

[Autobrots]

@EmmaColorful1 Thanks a lot. I use a program called ToonBoom to animate stuff. I draw with the mouse, so it's often rather dodgy. It actually takes me about 3 times longer to animate the tiny cutscenes than it does to shoot and edit the rest of the video!

-Jim.

[greencow423]

A friend of mine has a prosthetic hand. But it sucks balls and gets really sweaty, so she doesn't use it ever. She has figured out a really cool way to paint the fingernails she *does* have, though.

[Autobrots]

@greencow423 I'm no doctor, and clearly Jim is the expert, but don't prosthetic hands NOT sweat? I mean unless it's super realistic to the point of having fake prosthetic sweat glands, which is awesome, i'm almost certain your friend just has a sweaty hand...

-Tom

[Autobrots]

@InCupsOfCoffeeCV By the way, you aren't nearly as glad about watching my videos as I am about you watching them!

[Autobrots]

@InCupsOfCoffeeCV Thanks a lot! Welcome to my world where epic googling sessions = most days of the week. The sad thing is how many things I discard from videos. Like for example the fact that the dentures were used by the ancient Etruscans, and that George Washington's teeth weren't made of wood but of hippo ivory!

[InCupsOfCoffeeCV]

Man, while the Echelon is a pretty fantastic development in terms of foot prostheses, that toe is one BAMF.

ERGh... Now I want to start an epic googling session on Prosthetics...

I have to say, I'm really glad I started watching your videos, thanks for commenting on my channel!

[MrMarkhooper]

huzzah! Excellent vid. Best one so far, in fact.