UC Berkeley engineers, funded by the Pentagon's Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), have created mindless insect drones at our command! The Berkeley team implanted electrods into the beetle's brain and muscles, and with electric pulses, can stimulate the beetle's wings to launch, fly left or right, and land from a distance away Remote-control insects! Watch this video:
At last!! My dream of driving a insect swarm around the city and terrorizing my enemies can finally come truuue!! But it looks like someone beat me to the punch on Christmas Island.
What, you really think it's a natural "crab migration"?
We all know about the mad science going on about growing body parts. If salamanders can regenerate their limbs, deer their antlers and mice their hearts, then why can't people regenerate a lost limb too? Turns out it’s not only possible, it’s actually happening in laboratories today! In this Short & Sweet feature, someone regrew a severed finger just by sprinkling pig bladder powder on it within 4 weeks! It’s only a matter of time before they are able to grow an actual human heart (and other unmentionables).
When a hobby-store owner in Cincinnati sliced off his fingertip in 2005 while showing a customer why the motor on his model plane was dangerous, he went to the emergency room without the missing tip. He couldn't find it anywhere. The doctor bandaged the wound and recommended a skin graft to cover the top of his right-middle stub for cosmetic purposes, since nothing could be done to rebuild the finger. Months later, he had regrown it, tissue, nerves, skin, fingernail and all. This particular hobbyist happened to have a brother in the tissue-regeneration business, who told him to forego the skin graft and instead apply a powdered extract taken from pig's bladder to the raw finger tip. The extract, called extracellular matrix, is like a cellular scaffolding, and all animals have it. It tells the cells to divide, differentiate and build themselves into a that scaffolding. Cake it on the finger, add in a sprinkle of time, Viola! A new finger!
Check out this CBS News story about growing organs — apparently a lab at Wake Forest University has grown an entire beating sheep’s heart.
What kind of Frankenology blogger would I be not to tell you about super human-cyborg man strength contraptions that would let us to throw cars around for fun in the future? Don't be silly. There are three major human powersuit/"exoskeleton" developments recently:
Meet HAL, by HAL it means "Hybrid Assisted Limb". HAL, meet readers. HAL is created and unveiled by Japanese company Cyberdyne in June 2005. This exoskeleton suit is worn and strapped close to the body, then- WALA! You have stronger liiiimmmbbbsss! They assist users on everyday tasks, such as walking up and down stairs, standing, running, or maybe even carrying giant jugs of water to nowhere. Who is it primarily for? Old people. And the disabled. Wheelchair. Cane. Or soldiers in the battlefield. Shouldn't stop you from getting one though. It works by sensing the microsignals emitted from brain (and sensed on the skin itself) that tells your own limbs to move, and the suit follows suit. That rectangular square on the back is a supercomputer that translates bio-signals to suit-movements. The suit can go for almost five hours before it gives out. Make sure you're in a safe place when it does. Hmm, maybe that suit needs a panic/call button.
When they start to sell to the public, a single leg version rents for $1,570 a month, while a two-leg unit goes for $2,300 a month, and $4,200 for the entire suit. I wonder how much would the warranty be on that?? I better be covered if I'm going to run around Hulk-style! HULK SMASH. (Via H+)
Check out the video demonstration below to see man walking around awkwardly with HAL:
You can always count on the military to develop superhuman and super-awesome technology. I say, war is such great motivator of science and robotics for countries. The military hired a team at Raytheon Sarcos to build an exoskeleton called Sarcos XOS, announced on May 2009. It can lift 200 lbs easily and is way more agile than HAL (sorry HAL), anything from jumping jacks, sprint, jump, punch punching bags can be done. Basically anything agile thing you want to agile. Maybe we can even roll around the grass... and make grass angels with it. The suit is still in development, but the military hopes to start field testing this year. (Via Popular Science)
Watch video of the suit in action below. The future models look uncannily like Master Chief of HALO by the way.
Meet ‘Power Loader’ exoskeleton suit announced around September of 2009 by ActiveLink, an affiliate company of Panasonic. Inspired from Alien movie, this monster can easily lift 220lbs and will be used for construction and rescue mission purposes by 2015. It's still in the developmental stages so expect that number to increase dramatically when it hits the market. Too bad it moves like a slug. Looks cool though. Maybe we can scare a few enemies away with it by slowly waving it back and forth in the air and make rabid animal noises. (via Gizmodo) Video Below:
Our man in 20 years. Who's going to go mutate a spider for the sake of WORLD BALANCE?
No matter how we look at it (or scream), the wave to microchipping humans is coming!
It all started in 1998, when distinguished British scientist Kevin Warwick "Caption Cyborg" experimentally used the implants wired to his nervous system to open doors, switch on lights, adjust heat, access computer with a wave of his hand. He uses himself as a guinea pig to test various other new technologies on himself, vowing to leave his human self behind to become a cyborg. He's one crazy, crazy man. Brilliant, but crazy. BBC also wondered, "Crazed Scientist or Gifted Visionary?"
Companies took notice and by 2002, VeriChip Corporation got the green light from FDA to start microchipping humans. Its use is generally medical, containing only data about the person's medical history, general identification, personal contacts, medicines, allergies, etc. In case of a medical emergency, when one cannot inform ER doctors about medications and medical history, doctors can use a special chip scanner to scan the person's chip for critical and life-saving information in seconds. But due to the unencrypted nature of the microchip, there is a real threat of ill-meaning people that can hack into and steal chip information. Maybe they can scan for your allergies and then sprinkle that into your food? Or find out you have a pacemaker and throw you a giant magnet? The possibilities are limitless!
Other things that are possible with the chip that might (or is) happen in the future: VeriChip Corporation and RECEPTORS LLC just announced in October 2009 that chips are developed to detect if you get the swine flu and/or seasonal flu, it will detect and remind you to take your medications, and in the future, grab-and-go shopping, brain chipping, even telepathy!! Thoughts beware!
We already have the technology to use the chip implants as a credit card to conveniently pay for items or GPS-trackable, we just have to get past the masses and masses of protesting people like human rights groups and civil liberty groups in order to do so. Hey what year is it? 1984? Yeah sounds like it.
Here is the advertisement VeriChip put out to promote the chip:
It's really hard to not see all the crazy people, mind control theories out there. Video 1 of 5:
Even better- More recently, in 2007 Hitachi RFID microchip unveiled the world's smallest and thinnest RFID microchip measuring in at 0.05 x 0.05 millimeters! It's so small that it can be embedded in paper; or when there's a riot, the police can just sprinkle it around and then track us down one by one!
In 2004, Thomas DeMarse, a biomedical engineer at the University of Florida in Gainesville, created a experiment to study how brain cells connect and compute by growing 25,000 rat brain neuron cells in a petri dish and connecting it to a flight simulator/computer game. It started to fly the airplane!
"... as the neurons begin to receive information from the computer about flight conditions—similar to how neurons receive and interpret signals from each other to control our bodies—the brain gradually learns to fly the aircraft."
Rat brain cells flying a simulated aircraft?! From a petri-dish?! Sweet Jenkins, this might as well be the first "rat" to fly an aircraft! What's next? Trans-continental rat pilots?! Yes, said National Geographic's article, this type of technology can be developed for things such as flying pilot-less aircraft, or handle tasks that are dangerous to humans like rescue missions or bomb assessment situations. This technology can also help NASA in exploring alien planets too, as they currently have to calculate immense amounts of code just to drive the mechanical explorers a few feet a day. With a brain on board, there wouldn't be a need for teams to manually translate movement to computer code everyday.
Our future:
"Neural network research may be setting the stage for the creation of so-called hybrid computers based on biological systems. [Although] silicon-based computers are very accurate and fast at processing some kinds of information, they have none of the flexibility of the human brain."
Brains in our machines! BRAINNS! Imagine the possibilities! The Jetsons, iRobot! And what if they turn against us? There are murmurs out there that the 3 laws of Robotics (devised by Isaac Asimov for our protection) can be bent. In fact, last month it is found that robots can evolve abilities to lie- even when they are originally not designed to. (Read more about this @ PopSci)
Well, if things do get out of control and humanity is on the brink of complete domination by mind-machines, let's engineer a virus called "Hordes of Zombies" and release it upon them mind-machines! Nom nom nom. Brains.
Ma why is there a head sitting there staring at me?
Ever wanted to be invisible? Maybe an embarrassing moment, like when we've spotted a certain attractive someone, turned to smile at them only to face-plant a wall? We've all been there (at least I have). At that very moment of face-to-stone contact and cascading realization, Invisibility seems the only way of escape. Not a pretty sight. Thankfully, scientists all over the world share our dream of Invisibility (face-planting is fun for nobody). With their dutiful research, we're well on our way! Relief!
Here is a low-down of a couple of the more newsworthy ones:
2003 Japan's Invisible Man
Oh Japan. Land of the crazy-ass inventions. Gotta love them for it. Engineer Susumu Tachi of Tokyo University created a system that makes anyone wearing a "special reflective material" seem to disappear with just the use of a video camera and projector. Pretty simple. The video camera records real-life scenery behind him and transmits that image to a projector in front, which then shows up on his reflective alien-like cloak. Looks like a raincoat to me.
Watch the video, it's cooler to see it in action. (via Time Magazine)
2006 Stealth Technology System(STS)
If there was anyone who needs Invisibility most, it would be the military. Think about it. If all our troops are invisible, all they need is handguns. Better yet, an inglorious bat. Save the country billions and billions (Hello debt-free!). No wait- even better- swift hands with a black bag and rope: no bloodshed.Ta-da! Goodbye War! Ooh, do I get a Nobel Prize for that? In 2006, Inventor Dr. Rashid Zeineh (Dr. Z, awesome name) at Advanced American Enterprise (AAE) in Fullerton California developed tech enabling person to 85-100% invisibility down to 20 feet! Now that's hella close.
Dr. Z dubbed the shiny new technology "Stealth Technology System" (STS) (but can also be known as optical camouflage, or adaptive camouflage, or active camouflage, or chameleonic camouflage, or cloaking technology... they can't make up their minds). The announcement made quite a ruckus in the defense industry. So how does it work? Sadly no one knows because it's a military secret. According to Stealth Technology System's website, you can get your very own cloak within 4 months for $16,000. That information is not very secret. So with the unsecret price of $2,800 per dog, $29,000 per Hummer, $49,000 per plane or tank, and $59,000 per speed boat. Something smells fishy. Anyway, if I was a billionaire I'll make my own invisible island. Take that snooty rich people! My island is invisible, what can yours do?! (via Defense Review)
2007 Single Wavelength Invisibility Cloak
Why does it look more and more like Twilight Zone as years go by? According to the scientists at Purdue University, they are using the power of mathematics to bend light around target objects, making it look invisible.
"[the design] uses an array of tiny needles radiating outward from a central spoke. The design, which resembles a round hairbrush, would bend light around the object being cloaked." Purdue.
"For this we have to first understand the phenomenon by which we can see objects. Actually we see objects when the light falling on these objects is reflected back from their surfaces and hits our eye. Now if we can develop a device that does not reflect light back from the object then we will not be able to see the object. This can be compared to glass as we cannot see glass in light as it does not reflect light back to us. " Science Ahead.
What and what? All I see is hairbrush, cones and and light rays bending around water glasses- all with the power of mathematics. Well if that's the case, can the power of math help me bend around sound waves of annoying roomates? (via Purdue University News & Science Ahead)
So when can we get our little hands on this awesome invisibility ability? Not anytime soon, but eventually this technology will filter down for us to pounce on (avoiding face-plant is a powerful motivator). It's going to filter down sooner or later. So, time comes and you hear a cough in the shower, start spraying. Bullets I mean. Ask questions later.
Ever since I was young I imagined the world to be filled with people imbued with super powers. Those that can read minds, those who can do the physically impossible, those who can do a million things at once. Whenever something is out of reach, I'd wish my arms could extend, whenever I didn't know something, I wish I had the brain to penetrate computers (or other minds) for instantaneous information, I'm always seeking to extend beyond the natural limitations of the human body.
As I grew older, I began to see how these fantastical abilities are possible with the use of technology- and delighted in finding other people that are fascinated with exploring and pushing these boundaries of the human limit as well. I became obsessed with the general areas of technology, health, animal, plants, psychology, robotics, especially the fusion of all disciplines that enhance or produce superhumans. My bookcases and corners of my room is filled with scientific magazines; of which I've been feasting upon the knowledge from the pages ever since I was 9. It's an exciting era to be living in. As technology becomes increasingly advanced, microchips becoming tinier, the arrival of nano-technology, and new forms of technology and materials, our dreams of being superhuman is slowly coming alive- like Frankenstein.
With this blog, I hope to bring these developing technologies to the average masses - the casual scientific observers- and explore the future implications of this fusion of technology and human body- the super-humanness in a lighter, casual perspective. Most people outside of the scientific communities are not interested or aware of the potential technologies developing in the world that can directly impact them by extending their natural limitations or completely transcending it in their daily lives. With this blog, I hope to make these technologies relevant to the everyday, the everyone.
My perspective has always been the passionately-engrossed fan of budding technologies, at the same time, a cool, detached awareness of negative implications of such technologies. My tone will reflect such attitude: spirited narration with breathless naive excitement, tinged slightly of doom.
Potential Blog Topics: Telekinesis with microchips, shopping with embedded microchips, human tagging and tracking, nano-robots repairing our bodies (and curing cancer), incredible sight: seeing beyond colors, goodbye skin cancer, hello tan (thank you microchip!), powersuits (be strong like hulk).
Keywords: super-human, human technology fusion, robotics, bio-technology.
Blog Profile
MedGadget is a medical journal/blog established in December of 2004. The official description is"..an independent online journal covering the latest medical gadgets and technologies, discoveries in medical science, and the progress of the digital revolution in the healthcare industry." I love their tagline, "The Medical Revolution Will Be Blogged." The topics in MedGadget cover a wide range of multidisciplinary topics from Anesthesiology, to Art, to Pediatrics, to military medicine, etc. The articles are written by a group of eight MDs and biomedical engineers located in different locations around the United States. Collaboratively, they target the medical content toward the medical field such as doctors, nurses, administrators, and medical device developers.
An interesting point in MedGadget is that they stress the term "independent", meaning that their articles are written objectively and untied to any company biases and alliances, which establishes credibility with the audiences. Additionally, since MedGadget’s content is geared towards people in the medical industry, MedGadget further establishes themselves as an authority and go-to blog for medical news and breakthroughs of wide disciplines.
The rate at which blog articles are posted is massive, up to 10 different posts in a single day. They've been quite busy. Reassuringly, it means that the writers are truly up-to-date on medical news. The format at which the articles follow is professional but not loaded with medical jargon, which is a relief to the casual readers like me. I'm sure that the blog's minimal use of medical jargon is not intentionally written for the casual, non-industry readers, Instead, I think that the reason serves a another purpose. MedGadget is a highly multi-discipline blog; therefore the high use of medical jargon will restrict comprehension for many readers of all other disciplines. In other words, the minimal use of medical jargon or industry jargon will allow readers of all disciplines to read and comprehend all news from every discipline. True to its non-jargon voice, many of the posts don't dive into extensive depth or detail on its topics. The articles first give a brief summery on the recent developments around the breakthrough to bring the readers up to speed on what happened before in that field, and then summarizes the type of technology or breakthrough- further clues thatMedGadget want to includeprofessional readership from every field.
MedGadget covers the cutting edge of medicine, my blog covers frankenology. Our two subject areas and topics of interest intersect widely, as medicine on the cutting edge does involve plenty of innovative technology curing human ills or enhancing human abilities, something that I will call frankenology. Our site will differ mainly in audience. MedGadget targets the industry, Frankenology will keep the casual audience in loop of recent breakthrough developments. A second difference is that MedGadget serves to inform on matters of scientific breakthroughs on all industry,Frankenology will inform the casual audience on scientific breakthroughs directly catered to them; covering technology that will directly affect their everyday lives or at the very least capture their imagination.
Most of MedGadget’s articles are not geared toward the average consumer; in fact, much of all medical or scientific breakthroughs are rarely geared toward the average person. The time it takes from breakthrough, to prototyping, to testing, to federal approval, to licensing, to building a profitable business, and finally to the hands of the everyday people takes years upon years. For this blog’s objective, Medgadget does provide the glean of possibility and bits and pieces of what the future will be like, and between the two, much can be written about it.
Voice Analysis
The writer of Geekologie at Geekologie.com is the inspiration for this blog's voice. Geekologie's voice character sounds like a testosterone-fueled guy who is hearing the news/technology for the first time over a round of beers and joking around with his fellas. In fact, most of his blog posts sound like he's drunk. Drunk and crazy. Filled with vivid described imagery of crazy situations and opinions about the technology/subject matter at hand, this drunk & crazy language goes well with mainstream audiences- ultimately making Geekologie an entertaining read. Let's first cover the basics in this analysis and we'll narrow it down to specifics of character.
First of all, Geekologie's voice is geared towards mainstream audiences by adopting an informal and conversational voice throughout:
Let's face it: kids were born to make your life a living hell and wreak havoc on your house and mental health whenever possible (note: this is all speculation, I don't actually have any kids. ANYMORE -- they're all growed up!).
Secondly, even his titles are also informally titled. Examples such as "Kill It With Unkindness!: A Homeless Robot", "Eeeek, Kill Them!: I-SWARM Robotic Army", "Looks Breakable: New PS4 Concept Art". Much of the titles are named by reactions of the author and his opinion, which further personalizes the blog posts to the character Geekologie is trying to portray.
Third, Geekologie's character is also highly reactive and opinionated to the subject matter "discussed" (if we can call it that):
Wait -- is that caramel corn? TODDLERS DON'T EAT CARAMEL CORN?
Specifically character wise, his seemingly high testosterone is created through (liberal) references to beer, women, beating people up, breaking things, and name calling:
Do not drink, my ass. I have an iron stomach (and lung) and am gonna guzzle that whole jar like I'm shotgunning a beer. LASER VISION, YOU WILL BE MINE!!
Another interesting element of the male testosterone will be the constant one-upsmanship:
This is a video of an F-18 Hornet buzzing some guy's head so close you can taste the jet fuel. [...] Also, not to brag or nothin', but one time I let a jet land ON MY FACE. Now who's the man?!
Alongside the brutishness, he conveys an slightly evil attitude coupled with rough word choice:
[Regarding children] ... What are you, trying to kill the little bastard? Cause you know they fetch a pretty penny on the black market. I mean, I'VE HEARD. Firsthand (meet me behind the Dollar General).
Lastly, sarcasm is conveyed in much of his posts:
Wow. That's, uh, really something. Really something wrong with the world. I mean, how the hell does something like this get approved for manufacture and sale? Japan. Right, I keep forgetting
All in all- and in a nutshell- testosterone-filled guy talk. It resonates well with much of the mainstream audience. My blog voice will be just as informal and opinionated, but not as gender-specific and testosterone-filled.
Very interesting article, I also write a blog about superhuman technology and gadgets of the future at www.frankenology.blogspot.com. This robot suit looks like a Japanese comic hero especially with the blue lights that light up and the ipod-white exterior. Makes me wonder about the theory of how much of this design was an idea of engineers who have gone wild with their toys and concepts- and needed a good reason to do so!
It was surprising to find out that the machine was not a "strong man" machine because it certainly looks like it...a machine that would be used to help handicapped people move. Although I don't know how practical it is since it is a whole body suit, and the handicapped are usually only handicapped on certain parts of their body, either their legs, or one arm. Now I'm thinking that this is not a well thought out idea...looks great but does not have a wide range of practical uses in the area of handicap people. If they broke the suit down to parts, it would be much more realistic.
What I found most interesting and exciting about the science of body suit is this part of the article, "nerve signals are sent from the brain to the muscles via motoneuron... very weak biosignals can be detected on the surface of the skin...moving the musculoskeletal system as a consequence" I believe that using your brain to directly move machinery without lifting a finger is definitely in store for the future, As a suggestion for your future topics, there are even new video game companies developing headgear technology for people to move things inside a computer using only their mind. Perhaps your readers would be interested in seeing an article about this "computer mind control" topic and its range of applications.
Thank you for this article, though with the silly physical appearance of the machine itself, I don't believe it's commercial or realistic in application. It simply shows imagination in engineering- appreciate reading about the possibilities.
The writer of Geekologie at Geekologie.com is the inspiration for this blog's voice. Geekologie's voice character sounds like a testosterone-fueled guy who is hearing the news/technology for the first time over a round of beers and joking around with his fellas. In fact, most of his blog posts sound like he's drunk. Drunk and crazy. Filled with vivid described imagery of crazy situations and opinions about the technology/subject matter at hand, this drunk & crazy language goes well with mainstream audiences- ultimately making Geekologie an entertaining read. Let's first cover the basics in this analysis and we'll narrow it down to specifics of character.
First of all, Geekologie's voice is geared towards mainstream audiences by adopting an informal and conversational voice throughout:
Let's face it: kids were born to make your life a living hell and wreak havoc on your house and mental health whenever possible (note: this is all speculation, I don't actually have any kids. ANYMORE -- they're all growed up!).
Secondly, even his titles are also informally titled. Examples such as "Kill It With Unkindness!: A Homeless Robot", "Eeeek, Kill Them!: I-SWARM Robotic Army", "Looks Breakable: New PS4 Concept Art". Much of the titles are named by reactions of the author and his opinion, which further personalizes the blog posts to the character Geekologie is trying to portray.
Third, Geekologie's character is also highly reactive and opinionated to the subject matter "discussed" (if we can call it that):
Wait -- is that caramel corn? TODDLERS DON'T EAT CARAMEL CORN?
Specifically character wise, his seemingly high testosterone is created through (liberal) references to beer, women, beating people up, breaking things, and name calling:
Do not drink, my ass. I have an iron stomach (and lung) and am gonna guzzle that whole jar like I'm shotgunning a beer. LASER VISION, YOU WILL BE MINE!!
Another interesting element of the male testosterone will be the constant one-upsmanship:
This is a video of an F-18 Hornet buzzing some guy's head so close you can taste the jet fuel. [...] Also, not to brag or nothin', but one time I let a jet land ON MY FACE. Now who's the man?!
Alongside the brutishness, he conveys an slightly evil attitude coupled with rough word choice:
[Regarding children] ... What are you, trying to kill the little bastard? Cause you know they fetch a pretty penny on the black market. I mean, I'VE HEARD. Firsthand (meet me behind the Dollar General).
Lastly, sarcasm is conveyed in much of his posts:
Wow. That's, uh, really something. Really something wrong with the world. I mean, how the hell does something like this get approved for manufacture and sale? Japan. Right, I keep forgetting.
All in all- and in a nutshell- testosterone-filled guy talk. It resonates well with much of the mainstream audience. My blog voice will be just as informal and opinionated, but not as gender-specific and testosterone-filled.
Ever since I was young I imagined the world to be filled with people imbued with super powers. Those that can read minds, those who can do the physically impossible, those who can do a million things at once. Whenever something is out of reach, I'd wish my arms could extend, whenever I didn't know something, I wish I had the brain to penetrate computers (or other minds) for instantaneous information, I'm always seeking to extend beyond the natural limitations of the human body.
As I grew older, I began to see how these fantastical abilities are possible with the use of technology- and delighted in finding other people that are fascinated with exploring and pushing these boundaries of the human limit as well. I became obsessed with the general areas of technology, health, animal, plants, psychology, robotics, especially the fusion of all disciplines that enhance or produce superhumans. My bookcases and corners of my room is filled with scientific magazines; of which I've been feasting upon the knowledge from the pages ever since I was 9. It's an exciting era to be living in. As technology becomes increasingly advanced, microchips becoming tinier, the arrival of nano-technology, and new forms of technology and materials, our dreams of being superhuman is slowly coming alive- like Frankenstein.
With this blog, I hope to bring these developing technologies to the average masses - the casual scientific observers- and explore the future implications of this fusion of technology and human body- the super-humanness in a lighter, casual perspective. Most people outside of the scientific communities are not interested or aware of the potential technologies developing in the world that can directly impact them by extending their natural limitations or completely transcending it in their daily lives. With this blog, I hope to make these technologies relevant to the everyday, the everyone.
My perspective has always been the passionately-engrossed fan of budding technologies, at the same time, a cool, detached awareness of negative implications of such technologies. My tone will reflect such attitude: spirited narration with breathless naive excitement, tinged slightly of doom.
Potential Blog Topics: Telekinesis with microchips, shopping with embedded microchips, human tagging and tracking, nano-robots repairing our bodies (and curing cancer), incredible sight: seeing beyond colors, goodbye skin cancer, hello tan (thank you microchip!), powersuits (be strong like hulk).
Keywords: super-human, human technology fusion, robotics, bio-technology.
When a hobby-store owner in Cincinnati sliced off his fingertip in 2005 while showing a customer why the motor on his model plane was dangerous, he went to the emergency room without the missing tip. He couldn't find it anywhere. The doctor bandaged the wound and recommended a skin graft to cover the top of his right-middle stub for cosmetic purposes, since nothing could be done to rebuild the finger. Months later, he had regrown it, tissue, nerves, skin, fingernail and all.
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