{"id":155333,"date":"2023-01-13T04:25:43","date_gmt":"2023-01-13T10:25:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/bionic-3rd-thumb-the-future-of-human-augmentation-hard-reset"},"modified":"2023-01-13T04:25:43","modified_gmt":"2023-01-13T10:25:43","slug":"bionic-3rd-thumb-the-future-of-human-augmentation-hard-reset","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/bionic-3rd-thumb-the-future-of-human-augmentation-hard-reset","title":{"rendered":"Bionic 3rd thumb: The future of human augmentation | Hard Reset"},"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\/Ba4YklRq0Po?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>We flew to the UK to learn more about the designer 3D-printing third thumbs. Is this the dawn of human body augmentation?<\/p>\n<p>Watch the Hard Reset series \u25ba <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLXthoedLVIdLvnNgiCshQvqKdS7T_qeGY\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLXthoedLVIdLvnNgiCshQvqKdS7T_qeGY<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Motorized prosthetics are nothing new. But what about artificial body parts that don\u2019t replace missing ones, but instead provide us with extended capabilities, while also revealing insights into the relationship between brain and body?<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s the main research focus of augmentation designer Dani Clode, who developed the Third Thumb, a 3D-printed extension for your hand that is controlled by your toes.<\/p>\n<p>Through collaborative neuroscientific research with The Plasticity Lab at University College London &amp; Cambridge University, Clode and her colleagues hope to better understand how the brain adapts to augmentation, learn more about the limits of neuroplasticity, and explore how to best utilize it to improve the control and usability of prosthetics and augmentative devices.<\/p>\n<p>Watch on <a href=\"http:\/\/Freethink.com\">Freethink.com<\/a> \u25ba <a href=\"https:\/\/www.freethink.com\/series\/hard-reset\/bionic-third-thumb.\">https:\/\/www.freethink.com\/series\/hard-reset\/bionic-third-thumb.<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/bionic-3rd-thumb-the-future-of-human-augmentation-hard-reset\">Continue reading \u201cBionic 3rd thumb: The future of human augmentation | Hard Reset\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We flew to the UK to learn more about the designer 3D-printing third thumbs. Is this the dawn of human body augmentation? Watch the Hard Reset series \u25ba https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLXthoedLVIdLvnNgiCshQvqKdS7T_qeGY Motorized prosthetics are nothing new. But what about artificial body parts that don\u2019t replace missing ones, but instead provide us with extended capabilities, while also revealing [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1489,11,1499,1501],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-155333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3d-printing","category-biotech-medical","category-cyborgs","category-transhumanism-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155333","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\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155333\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}