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Uploaded by on Aug 22, 2011

A schoolgirl from Swindon has become the youngest person in Europe to be fitted with bionic fingers.

Chloe Holmes, 15, lost her her fingers as a toddler when she suffered from septicaemia after contracting chickenpox.

She wore a prosthetic hand until her family paid £38,000 for the hi-tech hand.

Her father Pete Holmes said: "We'd go out as a family and people would stare for the wrong reasons - they stare now in amazement."

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  • @brnt7342 You could thank Jesus for this, or you could thank the scientists who made the discoveries leading to the hand. Thank the electrical engineers who figured out how to make electricity do work. Thank the neuroscientists who figured out how to read nerve impulses electronically. Thank the mechanical engineers who designed the system of linkages. Thank the materials scientists who figured out how to make lightweight materials. Thank any of them. But don't thank Jesus. He didn't do shit.

  • what an awesome grin at the end. If I were in school with her I would be honored to be her friend. She has what the mean kids dont have. Personality and charm and probably an amazing future. She rocks.

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  • @Katrinna299 did she really go to ur school

  • She went to my school :)

  • can i get a hand job?

  • ..so they move by touch?so it's not really bionic...it's just a machine...bullshit i thought i would see actual biotech,well,alot out here in youtube with actual nerve system

  • That poor girl :(

  • Your video is popular on Dodoma

  • This video went viral on Georgetown

  • CYBORGS ARE COMING!!!

  • @knightinmiami Life is not a gift, it's opportunity and no, no magic creatures gave that for you but your parents via sexual intercourse.

  • @AtomicCheese2 How about being thankful for the gift of life itself?? but you're probably too dumb to understand what that implies, instead of criticizing other people's beliefs try to study more and understand more about the origin of life itself, one day you will hopefully acknowledge what your place in this universe is.

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