Following the breakthroughs in prosthetics | 60 Minutes

[@allshookup1640]

When I was in kindergarten, my principal lost his hand and forearm in an accident. He was gone for a long time of the school year and when he came back he had a prosthetic that had a slight hook that could connect and pinch. He told us all that he was in Neverland with Peter Pan and Captain Hook gave him a hook too. Such a sweet man. I haven’t seen him in decades I hope that he had something amazing like this now.

[@Error10010]

ayo did you happen to go to Sunland Elementary School? There was a teacher at my school that had that exact same thing, idk how it happened I just know that he had a hook and he could move his shoulder up and down to make the hook open and close

[@allshookup1640]

@@Error10010 No, I didn’t go there. Not sure where that is. But crazy that we had the same experience at two different schools and possibly two different states!

[@Karina_Engr]

What a feel good story. Thank you engineers, scientists, volunteers, parents, doners, and anyone else I’m forgetting.

[@Acemobilesuit]

If you got a good settlement or have insurance of a rich person my mom lost her leg in a car accident and she has never been offered a decent prosthetic

[@sqlevolicious]

@@Acemobilesuit bruh. There are entire communities that 3D print custom prosthetics for FREE. Just use google. No need to buy one of these insanely overpriced prosthetics these days when tons of people just built them themselves and give them away. It's really not a lot of work and cost these days to make one yourself too.

[@SungazerDNB]

​@@Acemobilesuit that's in the USA. We all know it's a third world country 😅

[@AdamJensen_]

@@SungazerDNB Europe is a continent actually. But cope harder, 3rdworlder. I know you're just bitter you'll never be an Amerigod. For that I feel so sorry for you 😅

[@etiennen4136]

So the US is only spending $100m on prosthetics but spending $200B on destroying a country and murdering 100s of thousands. And then also spending close to $900B on trying to wipe out the world

[@StealthyDead]

That last story is the stuff of magic. I mean it all is, but literally rewiring a human's ability to use their OWN limb again? That's amazing and ground breaking

[@Truth-Justice-Freedom]

It’s just a bypass way to skip the injured spine by connecting brain to the peripheral nerves and muscles. Idea is simple but the effort they put into must be huge!

[@onepunch9416]

absolutely beautiful

[@ericlanglitz2394]

This gave me an idiot’s “a-ha” moment, recalling that the human body will literally build new blood vessels to re-route around blockages. I wish I was knowledgeable enough to understand why nerves can’t do the same. If science could transition that hurdle, this seems to be closest example in practice. Amazing stuff.

[@junovicz]

Pretty awesome technology

[@whizbang7130]

Amazing work by gifted people. Very heartfelt episode.

[@KatySueWho]

That final man’s story absolutely took my breath away. Astounding. Scientifically provided miracle.

[@christian666amador]

This gives me chills. I have so much respect for the people who worked on this. These prosthetics are life changing!

[@edwardhighmann6421]

If only you had people dedicated to solving problems like this. Instead of creating more. Great piece

[@ashroskell]

It is comforting to see that journalists are still capable of doing genuinely fascinating stories about how not all technologies are necessarily inherently, “threatening,” in some way. And it’s heart warming to see how these patients can enter into a genuinely rewarding form of, “enlightened self interest,” wherein they contribute to scientific understanding and development by receiving the very latest and best help that science has to offer, in return for their participation in shifting forward the boundaries of the possible. A great story all round. And I’m so glad that 60 Minutes still takes the time to cover (and return to) these paradigm altering stories. Thanks for that. In ten years from now, I suspect your follow up stories to be reporting on wonders we thought impossible today. Technology is moving so quickly now.

[@DrRobertMPick]

This is awesome! 10 years from now we'll look back at this and see how much further we have come. Hopefully alo in the future, cloning may help some grow back lost/injured, or severed body parts!

[@sqlevolicious]

10 years from now, it will still be insanely overpriced and only for rich people, except there might be some better options in the home-made custom market with 3D printing and CNC.

[@coyotePAC3]

It's like watching the Wright Flyer's first flight or the Apollo 11 moon landing - what a time to be alive!

[@modsurgeon]

@@sqlevolicious Sure, just like cell phones, home computers, continuous glucose monitors, insulin pumps, airline travel, 65" flat screen TVs, digital watches...

[@EddyKorgo]

In 10 years i will be dead and my son will be living on Mars while you waiting for fap hand. Seriously. We are so behind with some technologies. It hurts

[@chaddaddywarden4349]

Kinda sucks that this sector of tech is progressing so slowly bc its not as profitable as others

[@markpage9886]

There is no limits to how far I'd go for the brave men and women who sacrificed so much of themselves. They deserve all and more than all.

[@MGrey-qb5xz]

how about not using ports in skull for it?

[@Harrison.DuRant]

@@MGrey-qb5xz Wut?

[@MGrey-qb5xz]

@@Harrison.DuRant yes alien?

[@Harrison.DuRant]

@@MGrey-qb5xz lol! What was your original question? What do you mean "ports in skull"?

[@paulazemeckis7835]

Do you have a better place to recommend than the skull?

[@DETROIT1948]

Had my left leg amputated at the VA Hospital in Tampa in Dec 2021. I walk on a prothesis. I'm on my forth leg. Soon I will run. I'm 75. God Bless The VA.

[@muatring]

The fact that you can control a robotic limb meters away from you with your own mind is mindblowing to me. Reconnecting your brain to parts you lost control of is also really interesting.

[@Doopersteen]

One of the greatest episodes your wonderful program has ever done. Truly hair raising and mind blowing. Very powerful. The future is bright

[@monsieur_piyushsingh]

My project at IIT Delhi was something similar to the last one except that instead of using electric current to control muscles, I was using current to track the nerves during surgical operations

[@mistycloud4455]

i am tearing up the people involved in this technology are amazing

[@evphex]

First hand shake in 8 years. Awesome man.

[@antipop885]

Omg the story of the last person in this segment is amazing 🤯

[@PsychicThursday]

Great story and advancements. Incredible work by these scientists, engineers, and technicians, and the participants

[@chicodimdim3025]

That story about the man at the end just wanting to be able to shake someone’s hand and say hi just makes me appreciate the small things in my life. I am so happy to see people benefiting from this technology. Definitely had a tear of joy here.

[@codyhanthorn4270]

this is the kind of stuff that units us in all manners. I really love advancements like this.

[@adim00lah]

Seeing stuff like this makes me appreciate I have 4 properly working limbs. I hope they continue to make breakthroughs in this area for people, because this technology is desperatly needed for many people.

[@ledwysdelgado7304]

That's amazing. Hopefully, they can make it better in a few more years.

[@דוריתקפלן-כ3ת]

הכל נכון מחכה להיפגש.דורית גאץ.מדהים.

[@williamgibble8361]

On the verge of a cure for being paralyzed!!! Omg that is outstanding 👏

[@nozyspy4967]

The idea of going straight from the brain to the limb and bypassing the damaged spinal cord is ingenious!

[@dadada486]

Prosthetics is one of the miracles and triumphs of science and engineering. It's so advanced its almost the stuff of Sci fi and fantasy! It's come such a long way.

[@bigj1905]

I can’t believe that, in just a decade or two, basic cybernetics are probably going to be a reality for most amputees. Crazy.

[@djtomoy]

It’s nice to be reminded that people are still putting advance technology to good use 😊

[@icyBulls]

So happy to see them feel back to normal again.

[@JesusChristDenton_7]

"We are not only men of science: we are men of hope." - Dr. Jonas Venture

[@TravelBreakthrough]

This is just the start of it man stuff is going to be amazing in another ten years

[@ChrisG1392]

This advancement in prosthetics is probably the best thing we've done with our technological advances. Just incredible.

[@cybergothika6906]

We're having this mega boom of hyper tech out of sudden. From AI to prosthetics and you know what, this is awesome. Hope never meant so much.

[@lisaharper1827]

Got me at ‘just a simple handshake’. Technology doing good in the world!

[@shishirshohan1690]

Not ideology, not religion, not political revolution. It's science and technology which fundamentally improve human condition.

[@Slim08151]

Thank God, after all those years I can finally flip off people like I used to back in the day.

[@ronkirk5099]

Looks like we are right on the cusp of prosthetics 3.0 which will really make some people's lives much better. The wonders of medical science and engineering.

[@James60226]

The people who work on projects like this are on another level of smart..

[@TheRealityWarper08]

This is good. We need more feel-good stories to win people over to these concepts. There are simply too many people that are afraid of this kind of technology right now, and stories like this are certain to loosen their closed biases.

[@celeryslice]

These studies are going to open the door for so many others in the future. This is a quantum leap in biotechnology and I anticipate my lifetime to have even more of these scientific miracles.

[@coachacola3755]

Lol why aren’t we funding this stuff

[@B0A2]

This is some incredible research I am interested in how neural link will fit in among these solutions.

[@m_sedziwoj]

Overtake brain - computer interface, and will make progress a lot faster because make it easier for people to use it. But first they must pass clinic tests, because in monkey they works great, question is how with humans.

[@somahmed123]

This is gold.

[@Pestbringer89]

Insane, give it another 10 years. Cant even imagine what they will be able to do.

[@sqlevolicious]

lol, in 10 years, it's gonna be in the same state. Bet.

[@Pestbringer89]

@@sqlevolicious Are you saying that in 10 years there will be no advancement in robotics?

[@dragoonduneman4161]

@@Pestbringer89 sadly that will be the case, technology move slow for gadget for the human body. Sometime some new tech comes along and its not really an improvement as its just a sidestep.

[@mattmayo3539]

The human body and mind are a fascinating machine that we’re still perfecting.

[@mattjack3983]

We're still perfecting it? You mean we haven't perfected it yet? Like, we don't already know and understand every single thing about the human brain and body that there is to know and understand? I don't believe it!!! Impossible!!!

[@bolt5916]

Just like anything else in this world.... Have we actually truly master'd anything yet

[@pietrojenkins6901]

@@bolt5916 we're still perfecting warfare and spending about $2tr a yr on that front. World war 2 was child's play.

[@Deploracle]

It was perfect long before you and I arrived.

[@c2thamax246]

Truly incredible. What better way could there be to use technology? This is the kind of innovation we should be investing billions into.

[@__Time__clock]

Wow this is the future

[@Flubbred]

"From the moment I understood the weakness of my flesh" might be true one day.

[@michaelbliss2490]

This is incredible

[@greg7811]

I lost my dominant left hand 13 years ago. I have a bionic hand, it sits in the closet collecting dust. I've broken and repaired every finger on it. My hook comes in handy for yardwork but generally i just adapt to doing things with one hand including typing.

[@thomaspeterson9346]

This is the most fascinating thing I’ve ever seen

[@kalsangtashi3040]

Thanks to all the scientists who make things like this that really help humanity🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏👍👍👍👍👍

[@Best2024_job]

Well done🎉. Would ❤to hear more on these in the future as these new technologies are truly helpful and hopeful for amputees and the disadvantaged ones.

[@4729Punisher]

I was at the lake with my family, mom, dad, brother, and sister. I dove off the side of a jet ski, and no one was looking, I was maybe 30 feet away from everyone. I dove in head first and slammed into the sand, I remember my body going numb instantly and month, nose filling up with sand. In like .1 of a second, I thought, "Oh no, this is bad, really bad." I made it out with no problems. However, I feel really lucky because of how scarry it was in the moment. I thought for sure I was dead or paralyzed, and no one had seen me get in. It scared me so bad that I never did it again or anything like that. I always check and make sure my 18yo and 2yo kids never do anything like that. Because at the time, I didn't think I could die or get paralyzed. But it's that easy. This guy probably thought the same, and boom, just like that, you're gone. My advice to anyone is to always let your kids and family know what you're doing and how easy it is to leave this world and to just watch out, keep your eyes open, and your brain on.

[@Danuxsy]

Yeah life has a lot of hidden dangers and we can get hurt easily. I'm glad you made it out fine! 😊

[@kkcook3743]

Way to go! Gotta love science and technology 😂

[@glmorten]

Wow the last story was crazy. One thing as a society we need to be mindful of is when we open up doors like this there are new problems introduced. I dont know what they are and could hypothesize but we must make sure proper safety rails are in place.

[@tonycr27]

Incredible, the miracle of recovering the control of your own body

[@YaleStewartArt]

My God, how incredible.

[@jaredf6205]

I really want to go back to school and become an engineer. I would love to help design prosthetics.

[@theeternalnow6506]

We're entering a really weird science fiction type of time.

[@Meltdownlv100]

Yes we are. Feels like a fever dream especially with how little attention this is getting

[@irish7460]

Humanity at it's best.

[@oxouk]

Absolutely remarkable.

[@containedhurricane]

The researchers from a university in Singapore used brain scanner and AI to generate the images of scanned person's mind. If we can use the extremely low frequency of the brain to control the prosthetics, that would be a major breakthrough

[@StruggleButtons]

I am beyond impressed (not easy to do). This is the first time I watched a video with my jaw on the floor. Were will we be in 10 more years?

[@garryblack764]

That is truly fantastic! Thank you for sharing.

[@neighbor9672]

Incredible what the brain interface technology can do. In 10 more years I bet it becomes incredibly sophisticated and powerful!

[@bryanalcantarfilms]

This is simply amazing.

[@poolhall9632]

Finally a DOD expense I can get behind.

[@Truth-Justice-Freedom]

The last case: It’s just a bypass way to skip the injured spine by connecting the brain to the peripheral nerves and muscles. Idea is simple but the effort they put into must be huge!

[@DirtCobaine]

This is something that I ALWAYS have been following since I was a kid, something near and dear to my heart. Which might be strange as I’m not an amputee. It’s just a kid there a few fields In science that we should be further ahead than we currently are, and prosthesis is one of those fields. And there are so much peripheral benefits to such research. Not only does it effect limbs but also organs. Learning how to rewire our nerves with our brains. The applications are limitless. From a prosthetic finger to a fully functional prosthetic eye. People who’ve been in fires or accidents that have taken parts of their face could have new faces. Type 1 diabetes could be cured with a prosthetic pancreas. Our war veterans can have their limbs back and even still be combat ready for those who’ve made the military their entire life.

[@mole2100]

Holy cow, that's incredible!

[@CaliMeatWagon]

Okay, that bit about the handshake got me.

[@Razzy_D9111]

Love this story, the future is hopeful

[@ethribin4188]

A very important sense that most people forget about, because its so natural, is Proprioception. Or the sense of knowing where your body, or parts of your body, are in respect to the rest of the body. A huge part of Proprioception is touch. Prostetics, which want to replace lost bodyparts, need to wire into our Proprioception. Or they will always feel like a gadget. Not a replacement bodypart.

[@cherylwin9364]

OUTSTANDING

[@guthixisdead]

That is just wholly amazing!! Going to sleep mindblown.

[@Ponlets]

its a shame its all so clunky and inefficient i hope in time they can make it so augments are easily wearable and move as fluidly as natural limbs

[@captainnima]

God bless them for what they’re doing.

[@bigdaddy1024]

Wonderful 🎧🇱🇷

[@davidkellogg2582]

Amazin! Techknology just keeps improoving some peoples standard of living. But, what is techknology going too do about the problems on the street. High crime rate, high homeless rate, the poor getting poorer and the rich getting richer?

[@pietrojenkins6901]

Dave have you ever been to a slum in a 3rd world country? Their standards of living are NOT improving.

[@davidkellogg2582]

@@pietrojenkins6901 I am sorry too hear that. I am afraid that conditions for the poor are also getting worse in America. At least as far as I can see. I have no solution except Mandatory Sterlization for large groups of ceryain types of people. If they do not conceive children then they will not bring them into an over populated World. Where the Rich get Richer and the Poor get Poorer.

[@Alblaka]

What I find most remarkable: The guy put in charge of managing prosthethics for veterans? A 1-armed war veteran. That's how you do it. You give positions of power to people who actually are in the topic matter, either through job or life experience. Not to whomever can wear a suit best and give the most slick speech.

[@SungazerDNB]

But he is an American 😢

[@GeeksGets]

​@@SungazerDNB yeah? It's funded by the US government

[@heckensteiner4713]

Holy son of a flicklestein! Crazy stuff happening here. Amazing where the technology is going. Sad there wasn't much improvement for about 10 years, but it seems like now is the right time with both AI and robotics improving exponentially.

[@michaelstone7514]

Amazing work!! Keep it up defeat physical handicaps!!

[@ErnestoConfused]

Big W for humanity.

[@wtx64940]

one question is Sekiro's prosthetic arm and tools possible as well?

[@Soulessdeeds]

Ian Davis on KZbin. Simple man making his own hand. And its insane how cool it is.

[@conormcqregor4393]

This tech in 100 years is gonna be crazzzzy

[@rockmusicvideoreviewer896]

WOW!! Amazing technology!

[@jogo-nt7ei]

From the moment I understood the weakness of my flesh it disgusted me

[@maxdon2001]

Great video! Fascinating stuff!

[@TomasPetkevicius94]

This is amazing!

[@victorsamaniego3329]

so fascinating.

[@DavidVeal]

So, you go to Mars and live/work in a community of pods with your pals for a year. A disaster happens, and let's say you lose an arm. No worries, we have that part. And it's not going to change the mission. It's not going to change your life. It's just a arm. This is an amazing interview and so promising. I think tech for prosthetics will get an even bigger boost from the questions of how we deal with hundreds, or thousands of new space workers/travelers, not to mention robots, escalating in our near future.

[@brendansgames6955]

Incredible

[@Owl-of-Minerva]

Each soldier is an investment. To lose one to physical or mental trauma is a huge loss. Lost limbs or mind will no longer bring relief from the horrors of war.

[@Validifyed]

The video: Amazing, world and life changing technology My brain: Hey I bet you could link a PC up to your brain and have SAO in real life

[@skehleben7699]

Extrordinary research!

[@libbybertrand9320]

Amazing!😄❤️🙌🏼

[@VaibhavShewale]

finally i can see someone with four arms!

[@kersplatte]

Freaking awesome and amazing! Yay for human Ingenuity!!

[@meinkraft2284]

sometimes we take being normal for granted

[@marselo1316]

Yeah you don’t really appreciate what you have till it’s gone