any1 else think of inspector gadget when seeing this?

I was pretty bummed a week ago today because I chopped my pinky off at work – I am not joking. This make me feel a bit better. At least I have an idea as to what project I can take up next.

Actually the skin grafts are not taking and I have to go in tomorrow to see what my options are as I also lost the skin on the inner side of my three middle fingers. I wonder if I can use this to my advantage? Maybe we could do away with the wire between the finger and the thumb? Hmmm . . .

needs to have a cap so you can pull it back then pull out the antenna
or maybe you could add voice recognition and make it work automatically when you say “go go gadget phone”

@Hirudinea Handy…

Hehehe

I think the skin coloured latex idea would be a good improvement.
An idea i had was to have the wire connecting the main board to the speaker on a kind of retractable spool. Like the sort on some vacuum cleaners power cords, in miniature.

this way depending on where you let that wire leave the pinky finger and join the ring, you could have the wire retract when not in use, and store the ring on the pinky finger.

then when you get a call you take the ring from the pinky and put it on the thumb. And when not in use the wire isnt hanging out were in might get caught on something.

I want a head-implantable mp3 player, complete with subdermal microSD slot, powered by the force, or stray radiowaves or maybe a mini nuclear reactor. i am prepared to amputate a bit of my brain to make this happen. anybody??

iv thought about this too, how do cochlear implants work? could you get something like that but rather then picking up outside sounds, it gets the sound from a little sound jack behind your ear.

He looks like a Bond Villain in the picture. Maybe an Agent of KAOS. Sigfried, is that you?

@whitecloud:

No need to screw up your hearing, just go for bone conduction speakers. These things send vibrations into the inner ear through the knob of bone behind the ear, making the sound audible to you even in high-noise environments. Pretty neat..

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bone_conduction

I thought about a glove but then I would have the Michael Jackson look. I am looking for a smaller Bluetooth device, but how would you make a dongle interpret incoming cell calls, and adding a mic, speaker, functions???

To be honest, I prefer that it looks like something worn over a finger, rather than looking exactly like a finger.

Don’t make it smaller or flesh colored. Don’t put a glove over it. Make it look like an obvious piece of technology, that fits over a finger but with a miraculously small profile. Paint it gloss black and stencil Nokia or iFinger on it or something.

It’s bad enough people wear Bluetooth earpieces invisibly under their hair, and appear to be talking to themselves. Or they don’t bother to check that they’re not looking directly at someone else when they take a call and say “hello”, leaving the other person wondering if the phone user is talking to them.

Seeing someone talk to what appears to be their finger would be even worse!

None of the doctors I asked agreed to cut my finger so I can put some electronics on its place

REALLY GREAT I LOVE IT. It’s soo coool !
showing lot’s of self confidence about a handycap

encourages handicaped people to make something special that will help them that’s really cool.
The coolest thing is: you need to be handycaped to wear it like this.

That’s a really great basic idea about prothetics