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Cambridge researches developed a “third thumb” device that is operated by pressure sensors under the foot. Sounds pretty unintuitive to use but they ran a test with 600 subjects (age 3 to 96) and 596 (99.3%) were able to pass the grasping tests in minutes. Looks like anyone that...

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Trung Phan2 years ago

I would personally use an extra thumb to triple the efficiency of how many customer support tickets I could clear per hour (from ~1 to ~3).

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Trung Phan2 years ago

Do you know how much more poaaasting you could do with an extra thumb?

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Jason Barrett2 years ago

They had too much time on their hands

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𝐁𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐅𝐚𝐦𝐨𝐮𝐬2 years ago

Can’t wait to see what the pron industry does with this

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Michael Girdley2 years ago

The future is going to be lit.

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Trung Phan2 years ago

12 fingers bro

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Vlad Yashin ⚡2 years ago

Looks extremely useless to me tbh. Show me a person who would want to peel a banana with one hand. What the heck?!

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Niall Murphy2 years ago

@hkanji Listen to my podcast interview with @DaniClode, amazing work

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Samvit2 years ago

Super useful when your phone is stuck to one hand all day long.

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Old Mate Engineer2 years ago

Weird flex but ok

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