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It was a tossup between awesome and horrifying, but we're going to go with horrifying on this one: Scientists have created a robot hand that can be attached to the human body and controlled by the brain.The SmartHand, which can be attached to the nerve endings at the end of an arm-stump, has an interface that not only receives messages from the brain, but also sends them back in the form of sensations.
Let's repeat that -- the robot attached to the end of that a chap's arm is sending messages to his brain. We are all going to die so very soon at the hands of robot, erm... hands.
At the mo, the SmartHand looks like a Terminator limb, but scientists are working on a way to make synthetic skin for it that would help deliver more sensations to the brain and presumably allow a man to walk up to you unnoticed and effortlessly squeeze the life out of your body.
