[news] Now where did I put my arm?!!!

[creese]

I can hear it ringing somewhere......

 

 

Man gets smartphone dock built into prosthetic arm - Telegraph

[MK-2]

what happens when he changes phone? its bad enough getting a bloody case to fit more than one phone, does he need to upgrade his arm each time he upgrades phone?

 

I'm pretty sure there's already an Apple patent for prosthetic based docking devices too, so I'm sure he'll be in court soon

[creese]

I'm pretty sure there's already an Apple patent for prosthetic based docking devices too, so I'm sure he'll be in court soon

 

Not to mention Anne Summers patent on the vibrate function.

[Mcshammer_dj]

Roll on the new iARM

[creese]

Roll on the new iARM

 

Maybe not...

'Once he had the idea to add a holster for a smartphone in his prosthetic arm, he contacted Apple to try to get ahold of a blank iPhone casing to test the idea out, but he notes that the group “refused to co-operate.” '

 

Nokia C7 sits in world’s first prosthetic smartphone arm - SlashGear

 

SELLER OF EXPENSIVE TOYS Apple shunned a request by a man with a missing arm to help make a prosthetic arm to house a smarthone, while mobile operator O2 agreed to help.

Edited October 26, 2011 by creese

[webman]

Roll on the new iARM

 

Well, a lot of smartphones do use an ARM processor

[creese]

Apple shuns prosthetic smartphone dock request, o2 helps- The Inquirer