Now, a bionic hand that can perform intricate tasks

London -- Touch Bionic, a Scottish company has announced that it has developed the world’s first commercially available bionic hand.

The bionic hand called i-LIMB is a prosthetic device that offers mobility and genuineness than an artificial hand is priced at 9000 pounds.

It enables its user to even execute intricate tasks like holding a card or turning a lock.

The device was first tested on members of American military, where the number of cases of amputation is on the rise because of the Iraq war.

“It is a paradigm shift. It will change the face of prosthetics forever. It is now much more human,” Scotsman quoted David Gow, the director of rehabilitation engineering services at NHS Lothian, who invented the hand, as saying.

Though i-LIMB hand uses the conventional myoelectric signal input to manipulate the hands’ fingers, this technique has more facilities.

The hand is power-driven by batteries that steer the five internal motors which can be recharged overnight

Myoelectric controls depend on the electrical signal that are produced by muscles in the remaining part of a patient's limb. The electrodes that rest on the surface of the skin pick up the signal making basic myoelectric prosthetic hands quickly adapt to the system. (ANI)