Comments on: Oh! Cool Robotic Limbs! http://www.ninme.com/archives/2008/04/oh_cool_robotic_limbs.html Thu, 08 Jan 2009 22:34:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Brett_McS http://www.ninme.com/archives/2008/04/oh_cool_robotic_limbs.html#comment-29778 Brett_McS Tue, 29 Apr 2008 11:14:50 +0000 http://www.ninme.com/archives/2008/04/oh_cool_robotic_limbs.html#comment-29778 <p>Does anyone remember "The Craw" from Get Smart - the Chinese evil mastermind with a claw for a hand?</p> Does anyone remember “The Craw” from Get Smart - the Chinese evil mastermind with a claw for a hand?

]]> By: Rueful Red http://www.ninme.com/archives/2008/04/oh_cool_robotic_limbs.html#comment-29772 Rueful Red Tue, 29 Apr 2008 08:26:52 +0000 http://www.ninme.com/archives/2008/04/oh_cool_robotic_limbs.html#comment-29772 <p>Now that's what I call hands-on cooking.</p> Now that’s what I call hands-on cooking.

]]> By: HalfEmpty http://www.ninme.com/archives/2008/04/oh_cool_robotic_limbs.html#comment-29729 HalfEmpty Mon, 28 Apr 2008 18:46:49 +0000 http://www.ninme.com/archives/2008/04/oh_cool_robotic_limbs.html#comment-29729 <p>When you got 'em flaut 'em I guess.</p> <p>Used to be pretty close friends to a disk-jockey named CJ Steele, a sweet and pretty gal. Her left hand was a prosthetic with an interchangeable end deal. Seriously. The hook for making coeslaw and working with iceberg lettuce. The clamps for turning ribs or chicken. She did have homemade insulator things for working the grill or stove tho, evidently heat radiates slowly, but surely.</p> <p>It freaked me out the first time I watched her make fried chicken.</p> When you got ‘em flaut ‘em I guess.

Used to be pretty close friends to a disk-jockey named CJ Steele, a sweet and pretty gal. Her left hand was a prosthetic with an interchangeable end deal. Seriously. The hook for making coeslaw and working with iceberg lettuce. The clamps for turning ribs or chicken. She did have homemade insulator things for working the grill or stove tho, evidently heat radiates slowly, but surely.

It freaked me out the first time I watched her make fried chicken.

]]> By: ninme http://www.ninme.com/archives/2008/04/oh_cool_robotic_limbs.html#comment-29715 ninme Mon, 28 Apr 2008 16:10:49 +0000 http://www.ninme.com/archives/2008/04/oh_cool_robotic_limbs.html#comment-29715 <p>Yeah, Wired magazine had a big thing on those Cheetah legs they make, the ones that bend backwards, and this one guy from South Africa born with no legs beneath the knees who's the fastest parathlete and the guy that gets to test out the new legs and stuff and "Will the Olympics ever let him race the legged?!"</p> Yeah, Wired magazine had a big thing on those Cheetah legs they make, the ones that bend backwards, and this one guy from South Africa born with no legs beneath the knees who’s the fastest parathlete and the guy that gets to test out the new legs and stuff and “Will the Olympics ever let him race the legged?!”

]]> By: Brett_McS http://www.ninme.com/archives/2008/04/oh_cool_robotic_limbs.html#comment-29695 Brett_McS Mon, 28 Apr 2008 07:33:01 +0000 http://www.ninme.com/archives/2008/04/oh_cool_robotic_limbs.html#comment-29695 <p>You know how the Olympic organizers won't allow runners with artificial legs into the open races? Because they go too fast. It's not fair to the unhandicapped.</p> You know how the Olympic organizers won’t allow runners with artificial legs into the open races? Because they go too fast. It’s not fair to the unhandicapped.

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