Is A Prosthetic Tentacle Better Than A Prosthetic Arm?

On one side, we have typical prosthetic arms with five fingers, a complicated motor system and human resemblance. On the other side, we have this prosthetic tentacle with a one curl grip, simple motor and creeptastic design. Which is better?

I’m going with the tentacle. Not only because it can very easily do a variety of basic grips but because you can moonlight as Doctor Octopus and freak the hell out of your friends. Plus, having a tentacle on one arm and a normal hand on the other is much more versatile than just two hands, right? Anyone can have a pair of those.

Here’s some of the grips a tentacle can do:

[Kaylene Kau via The Design Blog]

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(13 Comments)
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    Simon Potts

    Thursday, December 9, 2010 at 3:36 PM

    http://www.crfh.net FTW

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    red t-rex

    Thursday, December 9, 2010 at 4:52 PM

    Opposable thumbs tend to come in pretty handy.

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    pdf

    Thursday, December 9, 2010 at 8:36 PM

    Definitely the tentacle – I’d give my right…. oooh, probably bad taste.

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      RaVe-N

      Friday, December 10, 2010 at 11:19 AM

      I know I should, but… LOL!

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        RaVe-N

        Friday, December 10, 2010 at 11:19 AM

        grrrrr “shoudN’T”…

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        RaVe-N

        Friday, December 10, 2010 at 11:20 AM

        FFS I cannot type today!!! \*0*/

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    Steve

    Thursday, December 9, 2010 at 9:21 PM

    Yeah. That’s right. Encourage the Japanese even more. Enablers.

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    Mordecai

    Thursday, December 9, 2010 at 11:19 PM

    I can see this being big in Japan with tentacle … lovers. *coughhentaicough*

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    Artemiy

    Thursday, December 9, 2010 at 11:20 PM

    I’d go for Riderman’s gimmick – the changeable arms. So you could have either tentacle, or normal, or hook arm – there could be a lot of various mods.

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    mike

    Friday, December 10, 2010 at 12:27 AM

    Yeah but if you drop a quarter, its gone man, its gone!

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    Nodeity

    Friday, December 10, 2010 at 9:12 AM

    This has to be the best example of sideways thinking I’ve seen in years. Bloody clever stuff man. :}

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    andrew chadwick

    Friday, December 10, 2010 at 10:14 PM

    That tenticle can go places a hand can’t. Woohoo !

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    Nathaniel Kwong

    Friday, December 10, 2010 at 11:15 PM

    THUMBS ARE FOR THE WEAK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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