Iraq Vet Shows Off Bionic Hand

Iraq war veteran Sgt. Juan Arredondo can grasp tennis balls and door knobs with his left hand again, now that he's been outfitted with a bionic hand that has flexible fingers.

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Video: A man from Naugatuck, Conn., is among those to get the world's first bionic hand. ------ For more video and article on this story: "Man gets bionic hand"

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Meet the man who was given Britain's first bionic hand on the NHS - and is now learning to fly

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The world's first commercial bionic hand has grabbed Britain's top engineering prize. For years, the best doctors could do was equip disabled people with a glorified claw, a pincer-like device that mimics the opening and closing of a thumb and forefinger.

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Iraq war veteran Sgt. Juan Arredondo can grasp tennis balls and door knobs with his left hand again, now that he's been outfitted with a bionic hand that has flexible fingers.

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Touch Bionics announced Tuesday what it calls the world's first commercially available bionic hand, a prosthetic hand that moves more naturally than traditional prostheses and can hold awkward or delicate objects.

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The technology has been tested by US soldiers who lost limbs in the Iraq war.

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THE world's first prosthetic hand with moving fingers - designed by an Edinburgh NHS expert - is now on the market. Users control the bionic hand through their own muscular impulses and it will enable them to perform functions such as turning keys and gripping objects.

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