And I learned about this from Slashdot:
http://tech.slashdot.org/story/13/02/01/1427226/public-domain-prosthetic-hand

So this is not a bad place to ask.

I saw some things here:
http://www.nbcnews.com/technology/5-year-old-gets-3-d-printed-robohand-internet-collaborators-1B8242915

http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:44150

I'm not sure if it would work for an artist, but it is supposed to be low-cost.

Hi Bdking,

That's the idea I posted on twitter for the Google glass competition; going to a house and scanning all the relevant information. I never got any notice that I won the opportunity to purchase a developer's copy or anything; maybe a lot of people posted the same idea.

As a software engineer, I produce solutions to different problems every day which are then implemented and used by people. If my resulting software was not used by anyone, I would not gain much fulfillment in my work. Considering that much of the work done by Intellectual Ventures does not result in actual tangible products, do you still get a sense of accomplishment? Are you prouder of the ideas which actually get implemented? Or are you satisfied with the ideas that are developed, independent of whether they result in viable products or not?

You should have purchased a second hand TC1100. Of course, that was around $2000 when it came out, but now it is around $200. Excellent viewing angles and you can run linux on it. Battery life was not great, but there is a way to swap batteries without powering off.

Oh, and it has a trackpoint. That was a reason I never got a netbook.

The fastest speed was 1.2 GHz, but I didn't have too much trouble context switching. And *knocks on wood* I've had one of mine since 2004 and it still works, although the battery life is about 2 hours now.

Did I mention it comes with a modem in case you're in some middle of nowhere place? I haven't ever tried that though. *shakes head* They don't make machines like this anymore.

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We're jammin', we're jammin', we're jammin', we're jammin';
Hope you like jammin', too.

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Credits to Bob Marley

What a surprise. And in my own news magazine, I keep crowing about the death of Forbes Magazine. I'm pretty sure that will happen sooner than Facebook.

It's called a power plant for a reason. That reason is a play on words. The reactors are also decayed plant matter in a manner of speaking.

Who knows where Superman would have had to change otherwise.

Never underestimate the bandwidth of a seaworthy station wagon filled with hard drives.

It seems like every time I go to Australia to bring back a control insect, there's another insect that's not affected by the control that appears on the loose. Almost like there's a fly on the wall in my strategy meetings. Or a bug in my luggage.

From the article, it doesn't sound like they looked at other possibilities; suppliers which typically travel from Australia to LA, and maybe declining quality standards there. Maybe these other pests were dying off because of competition from the first set of pests and once the controls are introduced, the old set of pests (continuously arriving through incompetent shippers) are able to reestablish.

But I think it's an issue well worth talking about.

In reality, most of those 30 million Americans who were uninsured were expensive to treat. Hence, our premiums will all rise a bit and it will be annoying. But for some of those people, they will be given a new lease on life and much needed relief. It is tyranny of the majority a little, but; but then again, if you could choose to trade places, I think you'd gladly pay a little more on your premium, than to be hit with one of those kinds of diseases.

Does this mean that all my facebook updates/reminders will go to my facebook.com address? Finally, I won't have to worry about what's going on with my facebook profile.

cause this language goes to 11
*puts on sunglasses*

Ah yes, self-defense. Like that scene from the Big Lebowski, when they find out who stole their car? "Do you see what happens, Larry? This is what happens when you f%$K a stranger in the @$$."

I think working "with the State Department to actually get the local police to go in and arrest the people" is a bit different than hacking someone back. Especially when "hacking them back" might be hacking the wrong person's Ferrari to bits.