Prosthetic Implants

With the machines, with solid clinical credentials and motivations researchers are developing a new set of technologies that will soon be adapted into the human body wholesale in the ways the inventors did not originally imagine. Today there tens of thousands of peoples walking around with implants that connect electronic directly to their nervous systems Theses peoples have accepted they are better off becoming a hybrid, part human, part machine, than staying purely human. Before long they would become known as cyborgs. For year’s people have used structural implants, ranging from plates and screws to support broken bones, to wholesale replacement of the hip joints. Indeed a hip joint replacement operation is hardly remarkable today. Most people in the Western world have relatives or friends with artificial hips.
Hearing aids are another part of the human implant trend. This device is surgically inserted into a person’s ears, and electrodes are permanently implanted, so that there is direct electrical connection between electronics of the silicon device and the nervous system of the patient. The implant is an electronic device that separates multiple sound frequencies received by microphones in the ear and …show more content…
In 16th century there was many designs of prosthetic legs and arms, the prosthetic arms was designed with leather cup and metal rod as the bone and fingers. The prostatic leg first design was wooden or peg leg, with this design it did not give the person the type of morbidity. In the late 17th century a Dutch surgeon, Pieter Verduvn, took it to the next level in designing prosthetic legs and arms by adding incorporating hinges it would give the person more ability to