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Bionic Hand-Almerina Mascarello Madisyn Woosley
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Almerina Mascarello of Italy has a bionic hand with sensory input. The hand can send sensory waves to her brian, giving her the ability to feel everything around her. She had lost her hand in a workplace accident in 1993. She became part of a six-month experiment at Rome’s Policlinico Gemelli hospital and was fitted with the prosthetic in June 2016. Almerina said, “ It’s almost like its back!”. Something like that isn’t cheap, it costs $11,000 in US dollars! Sadly, she didn’t get to keep it because it was just a prototype. As soon as they get another made specially for Ms. Mascarello that she
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Bionic Hand-Almerina Mascarello
Almerina Mascarello of Italy has a bionic hand with sensory input. The hand can send sensory waves to her brian, giving her the ability to feel everything around her. She had lost her hand in a workplace accident in 1993. She became part of a six-month experiment at Rome’s Policlinico Gemelli hospital and was fitted with the prosthetic in June 2016. Almerina said, “ It’s almost like its back!”. Something like that isn’t cheap, it costs $11,000 in US dollars! Sadly, she didn’t get to keep it because it was just a prototype. As soon as they get another made specially for Ms. Mascarello that she will keep.
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Bionic Hand- Almerina Mascarello
Almerina Mascarello of Italy has a bionic hand with sensory input. The hand can send sensory waves to her brian, giving her the ability to feel everything around her. She had lost her hand in a workplace accident in 1993. She became part of a six-month experiment at Rome’s Policlinico Gemelli hospital and was fitted with the prosthetic in June 2016. Almerina said, “ It’s almost like its back!”. Something like that isn’t cheap, it costs $11,000 in US dollars! Sadly, she didn’t get to keep it because it was just a prototype. As soon as they get another made specially for Ms. Mascarello that she will keep.