Dani Clode Talks About Her Third Thumb Project
Great Big Story visited augmentation designer Dani Clode who explained how she came up with her now-viral Third Thumb Project.
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Great Big Story visited augmentation designer Dani Clode who explained how she came up with her now-viral Third Thumb Project.
Today on the show, we meet a prosthetic designer and a neuroscientist fascinated with understanding how the brain and body might adapt to something we haven't had before — a third thumb. Dani Clode and Tamar Makin spoke to Short Wave in Washington D.C., at the 2023 annual meeting for the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).
The attachable 3D-printed robot thumb named ‘third thumb’ can be triggered to grasp objects through the pressure points the toes give.
Tamar Makin, a professor of cognitive neuroscience at Cambridge University, said the brain's ability to adapt to an extra limb was 'extraordinary'.
Dani Clode's designs include the