This prosthetic hand has a built-in eye for added accuracy

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There are definitely times – mostly when ferreting around under the sofa or behind the fridge for a lost object – when you’ve probably wished you had an eye on your hand.

Well, it seems that even the creepiest dreams can come true. Biomedical engineers at Newcastle University have developed a prosthetic hand that’s fitted with a camera.

The cool thing isn’t just that it has a camera, but that the hand can use that camera to make it easier to pick things up. The goal is to bypass the normal processes which require a prosthetic hand owner to see an

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