{"id":22585,"date":"2016-02-22T11:48:59","date_gmt":"2016-02-22T19:48:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/prosthetics-amputee-james-young-unveils-hi-tech-synthetic-arm-inspired"},"modified":"2017-04-24T22:11:05","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T05:11:05","slug":"prosthetics-amputee-james-young-unveils-hi-tech-synthetic-arm-inspired","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/prosthetics-amputee-james-young-unveils-hi-tech-synthetic-arm-inspired","title":{"rendered":"Prosthetics: Amputee James Young unveils hi-tech synthetic arm inspired by Metal Gear Solid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/prosthetics-amputee-james-young-unveils-hi-tech-synthetic-arm-inspired.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The job advertisement was highly specific: applicants had to be passionate about computer games and live in the UK. Oh, and they also had to be amputees who were interested in wearing a futuristic prosthetic limb.<\/p>\n<p>James Young knew straight away he had a better shot than most. After losing an arm and a leg in a rail accident in 2012, the 25-year-old Londoner had taught himself to use a video-game controller with one hand and his teeth. \u201cHow many amputee gamers can there be?\u201d he asked himself.<\/p>\n<p>In the end, more than 60 people replied to the ad, which was looking for a games-mad amputee to become the recipient of a bespoke high-tech prosthetic arm inspired by Metal Gear Solid, one of the world\u2019s best-selling computer games. Designed and built by a team of 10 experts led by London-based prosthetic sculptor Sophie de Oliveira Barata, the \u00a360,000 carbon-fibre limb is part art project, part engineering marvel.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/science\/metal-gear-solid-prosthetics-arm-amputee-james-young-hi-tech-synthetic-limb-a6887071.html?utm_content=bufferd6c6a&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer\">http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/science\/metal-gear-solid-p...ign=buffer<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The job advertisement was highly specific: applicants had to be passionate about computer games and live in the UK. Oh, and they also had to be amputees who were interested in wearing a futuristic prosthetic limb. James Young knew straight away he had a better shot than most. After losing an arm and a leg [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":394,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1523,1499,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-computing","category-cyborgs","category-engineering"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22585","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\/394"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22585"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50992,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22585\/revisions\/50992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}