{"id":130523,"date":"2021-11-13T04:24:00","date_gmt":"2021-11-13T12:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/every-prototype-that-led-to-a-realistic-prosthetic-arm"},"modified":"2021-11-13T04:24:00","modified_gmt":"2021-11-13T12:24:00","slug":"every-prototype-that-led-to-a-realistic-prosthetic-arm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/every-prototype-that-led-to-a-realistic-prosthetic-arm","title":{"rendered":"Every Prototype that Led to a Realistic Prosthetic Arm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UOJ0lkr2SFc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Since the early 2000s, private companies, governments, and research labs have been developing prosthesis that are a lot more advanced than previous designs. WIRED talked with Easton LaChapelle, founder and CEO of Unlimited Tomorrow, to understand how he designed, tested, and adopted his prosthetic arm.<\/p>\n<p>The movie GENERATION IMPACT: THE INVENTOR, follows 25-year old innovator Easton LaChappelle, who developed the world\u2019s lightest weight and most affordable bionic limb. GENERATION IMPACT: THE INVENTOR, can be viewed on <a href=\"http:\/\/HP.com\">HP.com<\/a>\u2019s digital hub, the Garage (<a href=\"http:\/\/hp.com\/generation-impact\">http:\/\/hp.com\/generation-impact<\/a>) and YouTube.<\/p>\n<p>Still haven\u2019t subscribed to WIRED on YouTube? \u25ba\u25ba <a href=\"http:\/\/wrd.cm\/15fP7B7\">http:\/\/wrd.cm\/15fP7B7<\/a><br \/> Listen to the Get WIRED podcast \u25ba\u25ba <a href=\"https:\/\/link.chtbl.com\/wired-ytc-desc\">https:\/\/link.chtbl.com\/wired-ytc-desc<\/a>.<br \/> Want more WIRED? Get the magazine \u25ba\u25ba <a href=\"https:\/\/subscribe.wired.com\/subscribe\/splits\/wired\/WIR_YouTube?source=EDT_WIR_YouTube_0_Video_Description_ZZ\">https:\/\/subscribe.wired.com\/subscribe\/splits\/wired\/WIR_YouTu\u2026ription_ZZ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Follow WIRED:<\/p>\n<p>Instagram \u25ba\u25ba<a href=\"https:\/\/instagram.com\/wired\">https:\/\/instagram.com\/wired<\/a>.<br \/> Twitter \u25ba\u25ba<a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/wired\">http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/wired<\/a>.<br \/> Facebook \u25ba\u25ba<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/wired\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/wired<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Get more incredible stories on science and tech with our daily newsletter: <a href=\"https:\/\/wrd.cm\/DailyYT\">https:\/\/wrd.cm\/DailyYT<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/every-prototype-that-led-to-a-realistic-prosthetic-arm\">Continue reading \u201cEvery Prototype that Led to a Realistic Prosthetic Arm\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since the early 2000s, private companies, governments, and research labs have been developing prosthesis that are a lot more advanced than previous designs. WIRED talked with Easton LaChapelle, founder and CEO of Unlimited Tomorrow, to understand how he designed, tested, and adopted his prosthetic arm. The movie GENERATION IMPACT: THE INVENTOR, follows 25-year old innovator [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":609,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1499,1501],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-cyborgs","category-transhumanism-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/609"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130523\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}