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The Immaculate Designer Prosthesis

George Dvorsky

Sentient Developments

February 23, 2009

Something that’s always bothered me about traditional prostheses is the constant attempt to mimic normal human morphology. Artificial legs are supposed to look like real legs and artificial arms are supposed to look like real arms, right?

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