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Tag: Hands

3D Printed Soft Robotic Hand Agile Enough To Use Nintendo Controller

3D Printed Soft Robotic Hand Agile Enough To Use Nintendo Controller
Developed by a team of mechanical engineers at the University of Maryland, this 3D printed hand is dexterous enough to use a Nintendo controller, and even manages to beat Super Mario Bros. World 1-1 in the video.

Researchers Develop Octopus Sucker Glove for Grasping Objects Underwater

Researchers Develop Octopus Sucker Glove for Grasping Objects Underwater
Researchers from the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Virginia Tech (my alma mater!), led by Assistant Professor Michael Bartlett, have developed the Octa-Glove, a glove with octopus-like suckers on the fingers designed for firmly grasping objects underwater without requiring grip strength.

Creepy Articulated Finger Extensions Are Nightmare Fuel

Creepy Articulated Finger Extensions Are Nightmare Fuel
Because why not make every day Halloween, HELIAN is selling these 3D Printed Flexible Finger Extensions on Amazon (affiliate link). The gloves feature long articulated fingers reminiscent of Freddy Krueger’s that triple the length of your existing fingers, presumably so you can reach the television remote without straining yourself.

Desktop Hand Massager for Gamers: Keep Your Trigger Finger Nimble

Desktop Hand Massager for Gamers: Keep Your Trigger Finger Nimble
It’s important to keep your hands at peak performance for gaming sessions, otherwise, you might misclick and kill a teammate instead of an enemy. Trust me – it happens, and I’ve been kicked out my fair share of guilds and clans to prove it.

3D Printed Scary Hands Reaching Out of Wall: No Touching!

3D Printed Scary Hands Reaching Out of Wall: No Touching!
Because some people’s idea of interior design is the Addams Family mansion, these are the Scary Reaching Wall Hands 3D printed and sold by Etsy shop 3DDeluxeStore. Available in black and white in four different styles, they’ll make the perfect coat racks at your next Halloween party.

These Mechanical Wooden Hands Are Simply Awesome

These Mechanical Wooden Hands Are Simply Awesome
Bellingham, Washington artist Ivan Owen of Danger First has created a pair of really large and really awesome mechanical hands. What impresses me the most is how detailed they are and how well they move. He calls them “Gepetto’s Folly,” and created them with a laser cutter using wood, leather, steel, and brass.

Giant Man Hands Would Creep out Seinfeld

Giant Man Hands Would Creep out Seinfeld
Remember that episode of Seinfeld where he was dating the attractive woman that happened to have man hands? That was one of my favorites. Now you can give someone you love giant man hands too.

Chasing Time Wall Clock Never Stops Changing Itself

Chasing Time Wall Clock Never Stops Changing Itself
At first glance, this looks like any ordinary old wall clock. But take another look, and you’ll see that there’s nothing ordinary about the way that it works. You see, the hour markers around the perimeter of designer J.P.Meulendijks‘

God Hand Robot Ready to Get You With His Kung-Fu Grip

God Hand Robot Ready to Get You With His Kung-Fu Grip
Give your robot a hand (or two) with these incredibly complex mechanical digits from Japan’s Crafthouse. Instead of the typical grippers you might find on a hobby robot, Crafthouse’s servo-controlled GOD HANDs give miniature robots a set of flexible digits that work much like their human masters’ appendages.

Storm Synth Watch has Nine Hands, Still Somehow Manages to Tell the Time

Storm Synth Watch has Nine Hands, Still Somehow Manages to Tell the Time
You’ll have to rely on your keen powers of observation to figure out the current time on this new watch from Storm. The limited-edition Storm Synth conceals the current time by taking standard hour hand, minute hand, second hand equation and multiplying it by three.

Tell Time on the Outer Limits With the Rim Clock

Tell Time on the Outer Limits With the Rim Clock
The Rim Clock turns all that you know about clocks inside out. Instead of staying put and pointing to numbers like the hands of other, more well-behaved clocks, the hands on the Rim Clock are actually protrusions that go around the outside and point to the wall.

Clock Hands Stay Put, Numbers Move Instead

Clock Hands Stay Put, Numbers Move Instead
Unlike a normal clock, this funky modern timepiece keeps its hands stationary, letting the numbers on its dial rotate around the hands to tell the time. A simple gear-drive mechanism moves the outer ring around the clock mechanism.