I'd probs rather have a prosthetic hand that has pre-loaded word commands. It's like they're trynna be cool with these electrodes but they don't really fully work as intended.
As a prosthetist I gotta say, osteointegration is, right now, not a very good solution. It has three main problems: it create an access from your blood and immune system, meaning you have to keep it VERY clean all the time or risk an infection; the direct contact of metal against bone means on cold days you'll feel the cold directly into your stump, which can be unpleasant to straight up painful; and last but not least, the presence of the metal socket into your humerus has the side effect of fragilizing over time the bone that was already fragilized by carving it to make place for the socket. Hopefully those problems can be fixed, as combined with better human-machine interfaces it would allow for way more responsive and light-weight prostheses.
I didn't lose my arm, but I have a titanium elbow and that metal on bone feeling is not great. It's like getting the pain version of the weather channel.
the engineer in me wonders if its possible to put something such as a silicone bushing / adaptor to allow a more comfortable fit on the arm stump, though i doubt it as the metal still would need some way to interface with the bone most likely
I remember when i was little I had heard of breaking your arm, and I assumed it meant your entire arm broke off your body. And I thought the cast was just to hold it in place until it healed back onto your stump.
I used to think that Doc Ock talking hearing voices from his metal tentacles was silly, and this guy is literally talking to his hand and giving it a name... Please, don't rob any banks when Stephen gets an upgrade.
Hey Charlie....I'm a one arm gamer too after I had a motorbike accident at 18 and paralysed my right arm due to the nerves being ripped off the spinal cord. I'm 48 now so have lived 30 years with it and I've been gaming since I was 8. Gaming is harder but also more enjoyable for me as it can be harder...completing Elden Ring or any Souls game one handed is no mean feat! I have a prosthetic but it is cosmetic only. Your videos are very funny and I'm like you in that I always remained positive throughout my life and joke how I go around in circles in the swimming pool etc. I'm looking forward to more videos! Keep it up!
I'm a biomedical engineering major who wants to work with prosthetics after I graduate. Hearing you talk about your own experience and watching you demonstrate how you use Steven in your everyday life is really neat and I will totally be keeping this video in mind as I move through school.
I was born without mine. I did not lose it. I have you as many my electric hands in my life. And I was a Beta tester for one of the very first ones. When I was about 12, it was very heavy. The battery died very quickly. Hand had 60 pounds of pressure in the grip. I almost broke on my friend's fingers one time when she stuck it in there. When I told her not to but she did anyway when I was first learning how to use it. I stopped using them after a while because they were so bulky and heavy. And everything I just haven't used. My electric arm in probably 20 years and I have it worn a prosthesis regular release instead of a teenager.. I'm glad it's working well for you and that you're learning to use it. And you're a very, very funny kid. I am so glad that you made a video showing your personality and showcasing your arm. You are one in a million kid.💙
Woah I didn’t even consider that they would need batteries/to be charged! There’s so much that goes into prosthetics that I’ve never even thought of! Also beta testing an arm is super cool!!!
I'm confused, how does your body know that an arm is supposed to be there if you weren't born with one in the first place? Does phantom sensation still exist?
@@doggo_woo it's possible. the human body can mutate but it likely still on some level has a physiological understanding of its unmutated anatomy, and if rather than a mutation it was just improper growth, that's even more likely to work with prosthetics. all that aside, it also can just adapt to new things as extensions of itself. if you woke up with a third arm one day, you'd quickly get good at using it
@@doggo_woo It depends on the defect that caused it, but generally for children like OP it's not so much a limb that was never there as a limb that did not develop properly during pregnancy - but the nerve connections leading to it exist all the same.
@@uncroppedsoop Pretty sure that last part is untrue as I've heard in the past that synthetic additions and such would be hard or impossible to adapt, but it would be cool if that was true
Got this randomly recommended and gotta say: Love how you deal with it and the humor you bring to this rather serious topic. 10/10 Funny as hell and educational.
For a few years now I've been making custom covers for my friends prosthetic arm, think cosplay but for your prosthetic, be it leg or arm. So far I've done a few devil arms from DMC5, Punished Snake's bionics, Johnny Silverhands arm. At first it was to hide the logos and Corp weirdness, because it's a limb first, sponsorship third. You've genuinely inspired me to look towards branching out and possibly taking commissions in the future. One day. Thank you for coming to my TED talk and I hope you have a nice day.
That is genuinely the coolest thing ive ever read - you’re an angel! While i don’t have prosthetics or anything , im sure your friends (and even future customers) appreciate the covers a whole lot -^^-
Listen alr, red spray paint is like 10 bucks, and a leather eyepacth gotta be around 30 40 bucks. So he could litterly be him. Military uniforms and old equipment can be found cheap in surplus stores.
It's pretty awesome to see this out in the wild - I'm one of the engineers that worked on the software for managing and controlling the first generation of these arm prostheses, including the myoelectric sensing you mentioned. If you're curious where this originates, lookup APL's modular prosthetic limb ;). Wrist rotation is complicated because of the signaling that needs to run through the slip-rings (CAN worked pretty well, but, it has it's limits). I'm not familiar with the specific brand you have; does the hand support adduction/abduction? It's surprisingly useful for positioning the fingers. Oh, also, nails. They seem silly but they made a huge difference for fine motor movements (like picking up a quarter or opening the thin lids of bottled water). Anyways, it's quite rewarding and exciting to see this helping more people, and I too am looking forward to how this field advances over the next few years
When I went to try on my robot arm for the first time after casting, they asked if I wanted a realistic-looking sleeve to go over it or to leave it with the carbon fiber look. I looked down at my shirt with Lord Vader on it and said, "I want what he's got," lol. I love the look of the open mechanisms on the hand, and I'm glad to see other one-handed people showing off their stuff
I’m finishing up my masters and going to start applying for PhD focusing on accessibility and this video showing the human side rather than reading paper after paper is really helpful and inspiring thank you and keep up the good videos!
If you need another amputee (although to a lesser degree) I advice you Nerdforge. "I lost a finger... so I made a new one" is one I advice you if you want more "kind of every day life living with amputations but prosthetics makes everything a bit better" kind of thing.
Yeah! I'm visually impaired and I'm always a bit worried I'll accidentally cut my fingers but if I had something like this I'd feel much more secure haha Of course, real arms are better but I wonder if there's something to help with this.
Wow this is so informative and fun. I’ve always wondered how prosthetic arms worked especially cause in media it often feels unrealistic like it’s just a full fledged arm but metal. But in reality prosthetic arms are more complicated and clunky. Seriously you’re so cool with your wit. I have a hearing aid and other disabilities but I’m pretty witty too. People may thinking we’re little lambs but nah we’re just people. Seriously love your channel!!!
It's a very minor nitpick, but I always thought it'd be neat for a character to have a prosthetic that's still stuck in the clunky, kinda stupid level. It falls kinda flat for me when the setting sees prosthetic arms as weird or creepy, when they're functionally human like in movement and range of expression. Have it be weridly stiff and immobile. Stop start instead of smooth movement. Glitch out and screw up sometimes. Move too far and slap a wall instead of grabbing a cup
So a little like (I think his name was Fergus?) from Wolfenstein 2, he loses his arm and the prosthetic replacement is all glitchy and flinging itself about randomly and sh-t?
The science of prosthetic limbs fascinates me! The fact that we can give people a partially-functional limb controlled by the same nerves through taking advantage of phantom limbs is awesome! It's all progressing so fast, I look forward to what we can do in the future.
Unfortunately I believe it may be held back by the fact that the people behind this stuff just aren't getting the pay they deserve, which is discouraging for a lot of people to actually get in such a field. Society just does not care about progression, and willing contenders to make progress have to make sacrifices
@@DolphR Nah, society cares about exceptionalization and that directly cuts progress from economics of scale. If everyone was wearing Native headdresses, those things would be mass produced and cheap. Letting subjects under Bureau of Indian Affairs save some serious money and not have to trade so much in gambling and prostitution. But that would be redface. Likewise, thinking prosthetics are cool is ableism, but strangely nobody has a problem when thousands of men enlist at ages before they're allowed to drink, while dumb enough to think they're Superman and regular ol' muscle will deflect bullets or lift freight trains. Just like in anime.
Thank you for this educational video. You seem like such a great person to be around. There are a lot of people out there who aren't sure how to act around amputees and disabled people in general once they encounter them and forget that they are just regular people too. For example I have a friend who sits in a wheelchair and people constantly seem to think he needs their help and they start pushing his wheelchair without asking first or just stare at him weirdly, when he's literally just a guy sitting down. I think having content like this on youtube that's brimming with personality can really help them realize that we're all just human beings and cause others to stop thinking of disabled folks as some sort of aliens that can't live without help.
I was recommended your video at random and I really enjoyed it! It was incredibly informative and to the point, I also appreciated your snappy humor and wit while talking about this subject. I've been wanting to learn about disabilities & accessibility in general recently since discovering I am disabled myself. I really appreciate your insight!
7:22 For those interested, the dish mat reads, "THE DISHES ARE LOOKING AT ME ALL *dirty* AGAIN" Oh, and thanks for the 3rd vid, I think I can safely say that many of us can't wait for more
2:13 I guess that kinda makes sense, instead of the body keeping track of the whole limb it just notes that at the end of it is a hand. Like forwards kinamatics, I think that’s what it’s called, I haven’t animated in years
Operating a small RUclips channel by yourself can be very demanding. Once he grows the channel a bit more, maybe he can bring on a second person to.. (wait for it..) give him a hand.
Hey I work in the field of bionics! Everything you said about the new joint socketing technique is incredibly fascinating and is going to be a huge gateway towards more seamless implantation and giving people a more "naturally" integrated experience. Me personally I just am waiting for the day our R&D budget allows for me to try integrating my wire and reel system so you can launch your hand like a batman grapple and reel it back in with no interruption in functionality. That way you can punch people from a Ross the room and won't need ladders to reach high places anymore and everyone will see it and think you're super sick nasty badass.
@@candy-ass4915 I grew up way overexposed to cyberpunk tropes and cybernetically-enhanced superheroes. The saddest day of my life was the gradual realization that we're still like, 12-15 steps removed from ubiquitous bionic-commando arms and 40k tech-priest drip. And each of those steps takes like a decade to get through, assuming we even get the results we're hoping for at the end of it all. Lotta dead ends the last 30 years, but also most recently lots of new doors have been opened!
This is such an awesome idea. Can you also make the arm have different attachments like a super fast spinning wrist so it can be used as a power drill?
Omg tysm, I have OCs with prosthetics and I have so much trouble trying to learn about this to portray them accurately without getting lost in medical jargon, and I have trouble finding a lot of personal anecdotes 😭 fun video man 👍
ive had an oc (original character) with an amputated arm just above the elbow like yours for years, and while i've done extensive research on how life and functions with a missing limb is like so i can better represent his experience, these videos have been SOOO HELPFUL on learning more fascinating and helpful stuff about it! so i really super appreciate these videos, and any new videos just discussing how life is with the disability, experiences with things like phantom limbs/pain/any other effects of limb loss, etc. would be sooo helpful for my writing endeavors !! i also just love ur sense of humor sm so keep it up dude!! B)
One of the main characters in the animated pilot I'm working on has a prostetic arm, thanks for explaining and demonstrating how it work in such detail, it really helped!
I have a recent character who has a right arm prosthetic that is above the elbow. I've been doing lots of research, and your video was a big help. Thanks!
As an engineering student who hopes to one day work on these kinds of prosthetics, I thank you for making this video. It has actually told me a lot of useful things that I didn't already know.
It's so cool how open and honest you are about the trials and tribulations of being an amputee. Also, it's fascinating how far the technology already is and how far it might come in just a few years.
Okay, but seeing the arm help you in everyday things was really wholesome and really makes you think about what people take for granted everyday. I appreciate your strength to do videos like these. I'm happy to be a tiny part of your recovery. Also, I see you with the king gizzard shirt🗿
What I really enjoy about this is you have the ability and joyfulness to make jokes about a horrible situation, to lighten it a little. Thats a very good quality to have and shows you have a good character about you.
A lot of people have said this since the first video but wow, your editing and the pacing of your videos makes you look like an experienced youtuber. As always, amazing video, your sense of humour always cracks me up (especially that scream at 5:14 lol)
Nice video! Is Stephen a Taska hand? I'm an undergrad working in a neurorobotics lab, and we have a Taska hooked up to infrared and pressure sensors that provide it with a rudimentary sense of touch as well as a sixth-sense kind of close proximity detection. The lab I'm in specializes in developing noninvasive rehab and integration means, such as custom myoelectric sleeves, powered arm exoskeletons, and devices for calibrating prosthetics and rebuilding sensorimotor function in stroke patients. Prosthetics is a crazy interesting field, and I hope we see a lot more advancements in the near future. Thanks for making this video. Also, excellent taste in music.
I haven't really seen too many demonstrations of how tightly a prosthetic hand like that can grip so color me impressed when in its attempt to grip a burger, it managed to straight up puncture it.
Randomly stumbling upon a video showing the human side of prostetics is incredibly uplifting I hope the field keeps advancing. Im especially hopeful that neural implants are something we will see in this decade
Bro I cant lie I wish you would upload more. I love your type of comedy and honestly anytime I see a video from you I HAVE to watch it! I know life be lifing and what not but I hope to see more videos from you and maybe one day this youtube thing can change your life as well! Love the positive outlook you have on what has happened to you and I truly think with a platform you can help so many young kids who may have a life changing event happen to them! Thank you for sharing your journey with us man!
Still can't get over how funny this content is. It feels weird to be laughing about a tragic accident but its super informative and just outright hilarious. I am loving this journey and can't wait to see more. Also I have seen people with robotic arms that have fairly good control and made it look kinda easy. I had no clue it was so hard.
I kinda wish media would do a proper job representing realistic prosthetics and the effort that goes into adapting to one. I think it's cool people wanna make characters with these kind of experiences but there's so much "slice of life" potential that goes unexplored and the story usually goes: Character wakes up with new prosthetic, looks at hand and closes it, boom it's just like their old limb or better now. Awesome video style and editing!
im here to support with a comment, couldnt think of something witty to comment though. my mind just kept going in the "looks like you could use a hand with that!" direction and thats just pathetic lmao good luck with learning more in PT!! love the channel so far!
the scream when you took off your hand had me...i dont have any friends or inner demons who have prosthetic limbs but imma watch your channel all the time...
Awesome and educational video but can you turn Stephen into a canon with a badass crossbow attachment? Jokes aside it is nice to see you being so positive and I hope you hit 1mil soon!
as excited as you are to see the future of prosthetics for yourself, im excited to see how you progress through it! although your journey isn't extremely unique, it definitely is one of the few that is documented in such a fun and energetic way that it makes me hopeful to see your progress for the next years. Awesome video as always!
I love this channel. I’m so glad I came across it. What you’re doing is awesome. Please continue for the sake of all our incomplete brethren. I’m missing a chunk of my foot and phantom sensation is crazy. I swear I feel the top part of my foot sometimes. It’s worse when I lay down. Sometimes that missing part itches and I’ll scratch just above the stump and it will help. Phantom pain on the other hand is the devil’s anus and I hate it. I feel like my foot is tense and I’m bending all my toes and I can’t loosen them. Then there is the pain that replaces where that part of my foot used to be.
Thank you so much for this video because I always wondered, how are folks with a prosthetic arm, able to control the arm so well, when there is seemingly nothing to truely control that prosthetic arm, at least not when the elbow is gone. Turns out there is something controlling it as the nerves don’t simply just go away or anything.
Great video and well done! Really neat to see advancements in prosthetics from the perspective of someone who not only uses them, but someone who's culturally a lot closer to our hobbies. Cant wait to see more from you!
1:50 and perfectly missed opportunity to start a monologue of "on the day I learned the weakness of flesh I craved the certainty of carbon fiber, my left hand is to remind me what I once was but the other.... the other is for those to know that I wield the right hand of DOOM!"
Even as limited as that arm is, it is _fascinating_ to see how much prosthetics have advanced. I’d always assumed that most prosthetics that weren’t simply straight and immobile ( like those leg prosthetics that don’t bend at the knee ) were achieved via muscle movement, like a pulley system; as to my knowledge, most hand movements affect muscles pretty far up the arm. I wouldn’t have thought we’d be re-arranging nerves and using electrodes for specific hand movements. That’s genuinely so cool!
I'm not a professional in a related field, nor am I missing a limb myself, but as an aspiring writer, I find it very helpful to interact with and observe the types of people I'm writing about so that I can be as accurate and as respectful as possible, so thank you for this entertaining and enlightening video!
Alright 2 things. Number 1: I expect an update video every time you learn something new with Stephen. Number 2: I hope you’re getting good mental health help because I don’t want to look at my subscription feed and find out that you offed yourself because no one checked in on you. My dad lost his leg so I know how much you have to rely on others for help with basic tasks and I saw his attitude physically change as he lost his independence, it was hard to watch. And that was with a leg, I can’t even imagine how hard this must be for you. You seem to be keeping an incredibly positive attitude on the outside, and I hope that matches what’s on the inside. Also Stephen looks badass
Man. Even if I’m not in the user base, the idea that a prosthesis can and will surpass the real thing with technology is the kind of thing that makes humanity very impressive.
Fr, Imagine just being able to swap your own hands like he showed in the video. I've always been on the fence about the idea of "optional prosthetics", but this video is kinda changing my mind about that. Sadly, the technology is still a few decades behind. Funnily enough, the mechanicus from Warhammer are actually wrong: flesh is actually better than metal (for now at least). There simply isn't a way to perfectly mimic our organic nervous system, as this video perfectly showed. The "communication" between the organic and the inorganic is still clunky and scuffed at best. Even if you were to completely change your entire body like Adam Smasher, as long as you still had an organic brain the communication would still be clunky, and it would be impossible to move around as quickly or as naturally as is depicted in the game. Obviously, this is bound to change in the future, hopefully.
Love the humor and editing in your vids. It's pretty amazing how far modern medicine has come with helping those with disabilities. Hope you post more often. :D
We've made progress with prosthetics, but not as much as we thought we would. I've talked with a couple of engineers working on prosthetics for the military and they were of the opinion that we had a way higher chance of figuring out how to regrow a limb than engineering something like the Luke Skywalker arm.
Hi Charlie, I'm studying biomedical engineering and I also participate in a startup team that designs and produces bionic arms. We are working with an amputee who volunteered to help us improve our works but still your video was really informative for me. Keep it up!
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Congrats on joining the gamer supps hivemind
dude ur hilarious
I'd probs rather have a prosthetic hand that has pre-loaded word commands. It's like they're trynna be cool with these electrodes but they don't really fully work as intended.
As a prosthetist I gotta say, osteointegration is, right now, not a very good solution. It has three main problems: it create an access from your blood and immune system, meaning you have to keep it VERY clean all the time or risk an infection; the direct contact of metal against bone means on cold days you'll feel the cold directly into your stump, which can be unpleasant to straight up painful; and last but not least, the presence of the metal socket into your humerus has the side effect of fragilizing over time the bone that was already fragilized by carving it to make place for the socket.
Hopefully those problems can be fixed, as combined with better human-machine interfaces it would allow for way more responsive and light-weight prostheses.
I didn't lose my arm, but I have a titanium elbow and that metal on bone feeling is not great. It's like getting the pain version of the weather channel.
the engineer in me wonders if its possible to put something such as a silicone bushing / adaptor to allow a more comfortable fit on the arm stump, though i doubt it as the metal still would need some way to interface with the bone most likely
@@Alex-ju2oh As someone with a partly metal back (scoliosis moment) the pain weather channel is too relatable lol
@@ARockyRock ceramics might do the trick
the thing I wonder most how it'd be fixable is the infection risk
that sequence really gives the phrase "I broke my arm" a whole new meaning.
I remember when i was little I had heard of breaking your arm, and I assumed it meant your entire arm broke off your body. And I thought the cast was just to hold it in place until it healed back onto your stump.
@@Ashanmaril whenever you saw an amputee as a kid, did you just think they had broken their arm and didn't want to get it put back on?
@@SolutraNo, obviously they just lost it/it fell off a bridge xD.
There's a whole world between "Gyahhhhhh! I broke my arm"
And
"Dammit! I Broke my arm!"
@@naattxxnaattxx7055 I broke my arm vs I broke my Stephen
I used to think that Doc Ock talking hearing voices from his metal tentacles was silly, and this guy is literally talking to his hand and giving it a name... Please, don't rob any banks when Stephen gets an upgrade.
or try to make a mini sun that tries to suck op a city.
"Stephen made me do it."
Unrelated but honestly the name "Champutee" is so good that if I was missing a limb I'd be pissed that I didn't think of it first
i swear lol it's great
Yess
Even better is that his name is Charlie, so it's a double pun!
You could use the last bit of Champion
Ampuion
@@sampsonwatson5927 Almost sounds like an Eevelution from Pokemon.
Hey Charlie....I'm a one arm gamer too after I had a motorbike accident at 18 and paralysed my right arm due to the nerves being ripped off the spinal cord. I'm 48 now so have lived 30 years with it and I've been gaming since I was 8. Gaming is harder but also more enjoyable for me as it can be harder...completing Elden Ring or any Souls game one handed is no mean feat!
I have a prosthetic but it is cosmetic only. Your videos are very funny and I'm like you in that I always remained positive throughout my life and joke how I go around in circles in the swimming pool etc.
I'm looking forward to more videos! Keep it up!
How do you play one handed ?
post some gameplay
Holy shit, arr you a pirate?
So do you use adapted controllers or gimmicks in button assignment? Just imagining how it would ve with a cosmetic prosthetic!
Did you use blasphemous blade 😊
I'm a biomedical engineering major who wants to work with prosthetics after I graduate. Hearing you talk about your own experience and watching you demonstrate how you use Steven in your everyday life is really neat and I will totally be keeping this video in mind as I move through school.
I’m in a similar boat and those is definitely an extremely enlightening video
Good luck dude! This is the kind of work that’ll have a huge impact on the world’s future.
I laughed so hard when Stephen impaled the burger with all the fingers😂
I want to see that moment but with a mutated character I just image the Tiger claws making the juices squirt all over
That scene and the one where he shakes a hand is the one that sent me over the edge of laughter.
@@CrowCoded my favs him going an making a whoopsie
Me too 😂 that was so violent RIP bread
STEPHEN NOOO NOT THE WHOPPER
I was born without mine. I did not lose it. I have you as many my electric hands in my life. And I was a Beta tester for one of the very first ones. When I was about 12, it was very heavy. The battery died very quickly. Hand had 60 pounds of pressure in the grip. I almost broke on my friend's fingers one time when she stuck it in there. When I told her not to but she did anyway when I was first learning how to use it. I stopped using them after a while because they were so bulky and heavy. And everything I just haven't used. My electric arm in probably 20 years and I have it worn a prosthesis regular release instead of a teenager.. I'm glad it's working well for you and that you're learning to use it. And you're a very, very funny kid. I am so glad that you made a video showing your personality and showcasing your arm. You are one in a million kid.💙
Woah I didn’t even consider that they would need batteries/to be charged! There’s so much that goes into prosthetics that I’ve never even thought of!
Also beta testing an arm is super cool!!!
I'm confused, how does your body know that an arm is supposed to be there if you weren't born with one in the first place? Does phantom sensation still exist?
@@doggo_woo it's possible. the human body can mutate but it likely still on some level has a physiological understanding of its unmutated anatomy, and if rather than a mutation it was just improper growth, that's even more likely to work with prosthetics. all that aside, it also can just adapt to new things as extensions of itself. if you woke up with a third arm one day, you'd quickly get good at using it
@@doggo_woo It depends on the defect that caused it, but generally for children like OP it's not so much a limb that was never there as a limb that did not develop properly during pregnancy - but the nerve connections leading to it exist all the same.
@@uncroppedsoop Pretty sure that last part is untrue as I've heard in the past that synthetic additions and such would be hard or impossible to adapt, but it would be cool if that was true
7:55 “Not really anime character status-“
*Gets honkai starail ad of a girl summoning multiple arms*
Okay RUclips.
Black Swan
@@Handlerhandlerhandneeds to stop
*casually breaks arm on camera
The second I read your comment it happened in the video
@@Fisherrmansame
Try this one simple trick! Insurance companies *Hate* this!
@@pyro-millie5533 Oh you bastard! I love you!
@@FisherrmanSame
Don't let anyone named Dr. Octavious give you a prosthetic arm, atleast not from insomniac.
What about a Dr. Curtis Connors?
@@SoullessSin Oh, he's cool🙂
Edit: now that I think about it maybe not
do NOT trust Dr. Acula either!
But what if it’s really cool?
will make sure not to make such a mistake
Got this randomly recommended and gotta say: Love how you deal with it and the humor you bring to this rather serious topic.
10/10 Funny as hell and educational.
For a few years now I've been making custom covers for my friends prosthetic arm, think cosplay but for your prosthetic, be it leg or arm. So far I've done a few devil arms from DMC5, Punished Snake's bionics, Johnny Silverhands arm. At first it was to hide the logos and Corp weirdness, because it's a limb first, sponsorship third.
You've genuinely inspired me to look towards branching out and possibly taking commissions in the future. One day.
Thank you for coming to my TED talk and I hope you have a nice day.
DMC5 dildo arm DLC? ;)
That is genuinely the coolest thing ive ever read - you’re an angel! While i don’t have prosthetics or anything , im sure your friends (and even future customers) appreciate the covers a whole lot -^^-
Cool salespitch bro. Very fitting
You should do some live video game streaming
I really want to try one, but last I checked, I do not lack any limbs so…
MGS V Snake cosplay gonna go crazy
Listen alr, red spray paint is like 10 bucks, and a leather eyepacth gotta be around 30 40 bucks. So he could litterly be him. Military uniforms and old equipment can be found cheap in surplus stores.
Or Link, Nero, or Adam Jenson
@@da_mikkel7052 why would a leather eyepatch be 40 bucks
@@sillywillywillysilly Idk im not a pirate, so i guessed
@@thatcat_I don't remember dante losing his arm I think you meant Nero
7:09 I seen the glass cup and thought it was gonna shatter on instantly 😂😭
Stephen had us in the first half.
Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain was so good that they gave people bionic arms in real life. Bravo Kojima, you truly are an artist.
@@NaoyaYamiYou must be fun at parties.
@@NaoyaYami Cold War espionage genre > “Capitalism bad” genre
@@NaoyaYami joke
Your head
@@NaoyaYamisarcasm
your head
@@NaoyaYami autism
It's pretty awesome to see this out in the wild - I'm one of the engineers that worked on the software for managing and controlling the first generation of these arm prostheses, including the myoelectric sensing you mentioned. If you're curious where this originates, lookup APL's modular prosthetic limb ;). Wrist rotation is complicated because of the signaling that needs to run through the slip-rings (CAN worked pretty well, but, it has it's limits). I'm not familiar with the specific brand you have; does the hand support adduction/abduction? It's surprisingly useful for positioning the fingers. Oh, also, nails. They seem silly but they made a huge difference for fine motor movements (like picking up a quarter or opening the thin lids of bottled water). Anyways, it's quite rewarding and exciting to see this helping more people, and I too am looking forward to how this field advances over the next few years
Wow!
cool! :D
that's so cool, thank you for your work!
That's amazing! Thank you for yite contributions towards the betterment of humanity
This is so cool
5:22 "Instead of a hand it would be like"
A mega buster?
Yes! Or if you take about five dozen eggs, start putting them in a bowl...
When I went to try on my robot arm for the first time after casting, they asked if I wanted a realistic-looking sleeve to go over it or to leave it with the carbon fiber look. I looked down at my shirt with Lord Vader on it and said, "I want what he's got," lol. I love the look of the open mechanisms on the hand, and I'm glad to see other one-handed people showing off their stuff
"He's more machine now than man"
HELL YEAH
Or Anakin/Luke if you're in a more heroic mood :3
I’m finishing up my masters and going to start applying for PhD focusing on accessibility and this video showing the human side rather than reading paper after paper is really helpful and inspiring thank you and keep up the good videos!
If you need another amputee (although to a lesser degree) I advice you Nerdforge. "I lost a finger... so I made a new one" is one I advice you if you want more "kind of every day life living with amputations but prosthetics makes everything a bit better" kind of thing.
@@chrisheartman9263she lost a finger??
your will to move forward inspires me. god bless you man, you're a extremely charismatic legend, I wish the best of life for you!
6:47 Stephen gives the added bonus of not having to worry about cutting your fingers here lol
Yeah! I'm visually impaired and I'm always a bit worried I'll accidentally cut my fingers but if I had something like this I'd feel much more secure haha
Of course, real arms are better but I wonder if there's something to help with this.
I was also thinking that
@@violetiolitea leather glove?
@@AnEagle Nah, a metal one, like a knight!
@@widmo206 gauntlet.
Wow this is so informative and fun. I’ve always wondered how prosthetic arms worked especially cause in media it often feels unrealistic like it’s just a full fledged arm but metal. But in reality prosthetic arms are more complicated and clunky. Seriously you’re so cool with your wit. I have a hearing aid and other disabilities but I’m pretty witty too. People may thinking we’re little lambs but nah we’re just people. Seriously love your channel!!!
It's a very minor nitpick, but I always thought it'd be neat for a character to have a prosthetic that's still stuck in the clunky, kinda stupid level. It falls kinda flat for me when the setting sees prosthetic arms as weird or creepy, when they're functionally human like in movement and range of expression.
Have it be weridly stiff and immobile. Stop start instead of smooth movement. Glitch out and screw up sometimes. Move too far and slap a wall instead of grabbing a cup
@@Appletank8 Exactly! Have it totally CRUSH a sandwhich accidentally
So a little like (I think his name was Fergus?) from Wolfenstein 2, he loses his arm and the prosthetic replacement is all glitchy and flinging itself about randomly and sh-t?
@@Appletank8 That’s what I’m going to do with my oc who has a prosthetic arm lol
5:11 I DIED LAUGHING, the pure terror mocked in this scream is amazing
The science of prosthetic limbs fascinates me! The fact that we can give people a partially-functional limb controlled by the same nerves through taking advantage of phantom limbs is awesome! It's all progressing so fast, I look forward to what we can do in the future.
Unfortunately I believe it may be held back by the fact that the people behind this stuff just aren't getting the pay they deserve, which is discouraging for a lot of people to actually get in such a field. Society just does not care about progression, and willing contenders to make progress have to make sacrifices
@@DolphR Nah, society cares about exceptionalization and that directly cuts progress from economics of scale.
If everyone was wearing Native headdresses, those things would be mass produced and cheap. Letting subjects under Bureau of Indian Affairs save some serious money and not have to trade so much in gambling and prostitution.
But that would be redface. Likewise, thinking prosthetics are cool is ableism, but strangely nobody has a problem when thousands of men enlist at ages before they're allowed to drink, while dumb enough to think they're Superman and regular ol' muscle will deflect bullets or lift freight trains. Just like in anime.
@@sboinkthelegday3892I'm not quite sure what point you're making here
@@sboinkthelegday3892...What?
@@sboinkthelegday3892 Wtf are you talking about
What if you punch someone with your robot arm, would you get charged with assault with a deadly weapon?
This dude is asking the real questions
Homicide
"Watch out, he's armed!"
@@SlickMcClickis he legged though
it depends on the situation, but yeah they probably could if it was unreasonable force as boxers have been charged with that.
Thank you for this educational video. You seem like such a great person to be around.
There are a lot of people out there who aren't sure how to act around amputees and disabled people in general once they encounter them and forget that they are just regular people too. For example I have a friend who sits in a wheelchair and people constantly seem to think he needs their help and they start pushing his wheelchair without asking first or just stare at him weirdly, when he's literally just a guy sitting down. I think having content like this on youtube that's brimming with personality can really help them realize that we're all just human beings and cause others to stop thinking of disabled folks as some sort of aliens that can't live without help.
Can Stephen run Doom
asking the real questions here
We need answers
EZ
what we need to know
4:20 bro lost his arm TWICE
dude thats crazy!💀
I was recommended your video at random and I really enjoyed it! It was incredibly informative and to the point, I also appreciated your snappy humor and wit while talking about this subject. I've been wanting to learn about disabilities & accessibility in general recently since discovering I am disabled myself. I really appreciate your insight!
0:33 the valve sound effect lmao
Was looking for someone commenting about this lol
7:22 For those interested, the dish mat reads, "THE DISHES ARE LOOKING AT ME ALL *dirty* AGAIN"
Oh, and thanks for the 3rd vid, I think I can safely say that many of us can't wait for more
2:13 I guess that kinda makes sense, instead of the body keeping track of the whole limb it just notes that at the end of it is a hand.
Like forwards kinamatics, I think that’s what it’s called, I haven’t animated in years
i can't get enough of you and your humor, i wish you posted more often!
He has a prosthetic arm I’m pretty sure editing is gonna take him a while
@@Darknight8200 omg lol
Time to speed run a RUclips career and get some employees
I agree in theory but also rather he'd take the time needed to make videos that are this ✨ quality ✨
Operating a small RUclips channel by yourself can be very demanding. Once he grows the channel a bit more, maybe he can bring on a second person to.. (wait for it..) give him a hand.
Hey I work in the field of bionics! Everything you said about the new joint socketing technique is incredibly fascinating and is going to be a huge gateway towards more seamless implantation and giving people a more "naturally" integrated experience.
Me personally I just am waiting for the day our R&D budget allows for me to try integrating my wire and reel system so you can launch your hand like a batman grapple and reel it back in with no interruption in functionality. That way you can punch people from a Ross the room and won't need ladders to reach high places anymore and everyone will see it and think you're super sick nasty badass.
Clearly we need more people like you in the field of bionics, your priorities are 100% in the right place
@@candy-ass4915 I grew up way overexposed to cyberpunk tropes and cybernetically-enhanced superheroes. The saddest day of my life was the gradual realization that we're still like, 12-15 steps removed from ubiquitous bionic-commando arms and 40k tech-priest drip.
And each of those steps takes like a decade to get through, assuming we even get the results we're hoping for at the end of it all. Lotta dead ends the last 30 years, but also most recently lots of new doors have been opened!
You're doing a fantastic job, 13/10, no notes
looking foward to the day I can fire my rocket fist a la MGSV
This is such an awesome idea. Can you also make the arm have different attachments like a super fast spinning wrist so it can be used as a power drill?
As a young author, I’m grateful for your video. You just gave me a bunch of ideas man.
5:14 got me on the floor lmao
I glanced and saw your comment at 5:10 so this was comedically timed twice over XD LOL
Smam
Me too lmao!
Perfectly cut screams
KING GIZZARD T SHIRT DETECTED HOW MUCH MORE BASED CAN ONE MAN GET
I am 100% certain RUclips recommendation was based on this shirt
also, hes got in the court of the crimson king, based af
The red rocks shirt too
Omg tysm, I have OCs with prosthetics and I have so much trouble trying to learn about this to portray them accurately without getting lost in medical jargon, and I have trouble finding a lot of personal anecdotes 😭 fun video man 👍
ive had an oc (original character) with an amputated arm just above the elbow like yours for years, and while i've done extensive research on how life and functions with a missing limb is like so i can better represent his experience, these videos have been SOOO HELPFUL on learning more fascinating and helpful stuff about it! so i really super appreciate these videos, and any new videos just discussing how life is with the disability, experiences with things like phantom limbs/pain/any other effects of limb loss, etc. would be sooo helpful for my writing endeavors !! i also just love ur sense of humor sm so keep it up dude!! B)
tbh smart place to go for oc research
@@_G4.R4_ Truth. No better place for learning than with the real people living it.
@@YuBeace YES exactly!!
One of the main characters in the animated pilot I'm working on has a prostetic arm, thanks for explaining and demonstrating how it work in such detail, it really helped!
What’s the name of the pilot?
I have a recent character who has a right arm prosthetic that is above the elbow. I've been doing lots of research, and your video was a big help. Thanks!
Love the addition of that sweet Fargo poster
7:01 stephen absolutely demolishing that burger fucking destroyed me LMAOOO I LOVE UR VIDEOS MAN!!
As an engineering student who hopes to one day work on these kinds of prosthetics, I thank you for making this video. It has actually told me a lot of useful things that I didn't already know.
It's so cool how open and honest you are about the trials and tribulations of being an amputee.
Also, it's fascinating how far the technology already is and how far it might come in just a few years.
Okay, but seeing the arm help you in everyday things was really wholesome and really makes you think about what people take for granted everyday. I appreciate your strength to do videos like these. I'm happy to be a tiny part of your recovery. Also, I see you with the king gizzard shirt🗿
What I really enjoy about this is you have the ability and joyfulness to make jokes about a horrible situation, to lighten it a little. Thats a very good quality to have and shows you have a good character about you.
What? You can't rewind time with a prosthetic arm? Unbelievable.
No Rocket punch either :(
@@the_honored_onee I feel like that one might be doable, just rather illegal.
@@sebastianturner2458feel like it would also further damage the limb
No Mantis Blades?
@@sebastianturner2458 :(
A lot of people have said this since the first video but wow, your editing and the pacing of your videos makes you look like an experienced youtuber. As always, amazing video, your sense of humour always cracks me up (especially that scream at 5:14 lol)
Gotta say your humor and editing style are lining up exactly with y tastes so discovering your channel was just such a nummy nummy little treat!
Nice video! Is Stephen a Taska hand? I'm an undergrad working in a neurorobotics lab, and we have a Taska hooked up to infrared and pressure sensors that provide it with a rudimentary sense of touch as well as a sixth-sense kind of close proximity detection. The lab I'm in specializes in developing noninvasive rehab and integration means, such as custom myoelectric sleeves, powered arm exoskeletons, and devices for calibrating prosthetics and rebuilding sensorimotor function in stroke patients. Prosthetics is a crazy interesting field, and I hope we see a lot more advancements in the near future. Thanks for making this video. Also, excellent taste in music.
He is a Taska hand!
I look forward to seeing an upload in my subscription feed in like 5-15 years where you and Steven 4.0 are finally flipping us the bird
I haven't really seen too many demonstrations of how tightly a prosthetic hand like that can grip so color me impressed when in its attempt to grip a burger, it managed to straight up puncture it.
I absolutely love your KGLW shirt and In the Court of the Crimson King on the wall, you have immaculate taste in music!
Randomly stumbling upon a video showing the human side of prostetics is incredibly uplifting
I hope the field keeps advancing. Im especially hopeful that neural implants are something we will see in this decade
Bro I cant lie I wish you would upload more. I love your type of comedy and honestly anytime I see a video from you I HAVE to watch it! I know life be lifing and what not but I hope to see more videos from you and maybe one day this youtube thing can change your life as well! Love the positive outlook you have on what has happened to you and I truly think with a platform you can help so many young kids who may have a life changing event happen to them! Thank you for sharing your journey with us man!
1:17 Technically Phantom Pain in that name also includes the loss of Snake's arm!
0:39 bros spring locks failed 😭
SPRINGLOCK SUITS CAN'T FAIL WHEN ALREADY IN ANIMATRONIC MODE
Deep fnaf lore lmaoooo@@quantumblur_3145
Still can't get over how funny this content is. It feels weird to be laughing about a tragic accident but its super informative and just outright hilarious. I am loving this journey and can't wait to see more. Also I have seen people with robotic arms that have fairly good control and made it look kinda easy. I had no clue it was so hard.
I was fucking dying the entire time, comedy gold
Also, you ever break a glass with that arm like adam jensen in that deus ex trailer?
I'm not really knowledgeable on prosthetics, but your video serves as a really fun introduction to that kind of world. Great video!
I love being a below knee amputee and seeing what it's like to be an above elbow amputee. This is genuinely eye opening and fantastic
I love being a nonamputee, and seeing what it's like to be an upper arm amputee twice by two RUclipsrs is fascinating.
Saw the first video a while back, glad I subbed
When you strapped it on for a second I was like damn, that's sick. Then I remembered. I mean, it's still sick but, yeah. Respect to you man
3:54 Was actually wondering if you could do this the whole time
7:02 stephen rlly said “gimme pieceeee”
Steven wants a fucking bite
I kinda wish media would do a proper job representing realistic prosthetics and the effort that goes into adapting to one. I think it's cool people wanna make characters with these kind of experiences but there's so much "slice of life" potential that goes unexplored and the story usually goes: Character wakes up with new prosthetic, looks at hand and closes it, boom it's just like their old limb or better now.
Awesome video style and editing!
Nice little overview! As a Prosthetist myself, I always love seeing our work out in the wild!
im here to support with a comment, couldnt think of something witty to comment though. my mind just kept going in the "looks like you could use a hand with that!" direction and thats just pathetic lmao good luck with learning more in PT!! love the channel so far!
the scream when you took off your hand had me...i dont have any friends or inner demons who have prosthetic limbs but imma watch your channel all the time...
Awesome and educational video but can you turn Stephen into a canon with a badass crossbow attachment? Jokes aside it is nice to see you being so positive and I hope you hit 1mil soon!
as excited as you are to see the future of prosthetics for yourself, im excited to see how you progress through it! although your journey isn't extremely unique, it definitely is one of the few that is documented in such a fun and energetic way that it makes me hopeful to see your progress for the next years. Awesome video as always!
Confidential footage of Venom snake training with his arm
I love this channel. I’m so glad I came across it. What you’re doing is awesome. Please continue for the sake of all our incomplete brethren. I’m missing a chunk of my foot and phantom sensation is crazy. I swear I feel the top part of my foot sometimes. It’s worse when I lay down. Sometimes that missing part itches and I’ll scratch just above the stump and it will help. Phantom pain on the other hand is the devil’s anus and I hate it. I feel like my foot is tense and I’m bending all my toes and I can’t loosen them. Then there is the pain that replaces where that part of my foot used to be.
Oh my god, the phantom itch SUCKS!
Its really cool seeing ur content, im in highschool rn, but soon when i graduate, i want to become a prosthetist.
Thank you so much for this video because I always wondered, how are folks with a prosthetic arm, able to control the arm so well, when there is seemingly nothing to truely control that prosthetic arm, at least not when the elbow is gone.
Turns out there is something controlling it as the nerves don’t simply just go away or anything.
Great video and well done! Really neat to see advancements in prosthetics from the perspective of someone who not only uses them, but someone who's culturally a lot closer to our hobbies. Cant wait to see more from you!
your'e fucking hilarious dude, your comedy, personality, editing. impressive stuff! a natural entertainer. enjoyed watching.
1:50 and perfectly missed opportunity to start a monologue of "on the day I learned the weakness of flesh I craved the certainty of carbon fiber, my left hand is to remind me what I once was but the other.... the other is for those to know that I wield the right hand of DOOM!"
Even as limited as that arm is, it is _fascinating_ to see how much prosthetics have advanced. I’d always assumed that most prosthetics that weren’t simply straight and immobile ( like those leg prosthetics that don’t bend at the knee ) were achieved via muscle movement, like a pulley system; as to my knowledge, most hand movements affect muscles pretty far up the arm. I wouldn’t have thought we’d be re-arranging nerves and using electrodes for specific hand movements. That’s genuinely so cool!
8:15 this was the real reason for getting the new arm
I'm not a professional in a related field, nor am I missing a limb myself, but as an aspiring writer, I find it very helpful to interact with and observe the types of people I'm writing about so that I can be as accurate and as respectful as possible, so thank you for this entertaining and enlightening video!
Tom's scream at 7:38 was👌as Stephen would gesture
Alright 2 things. Number 1: I expect an update video every time you learn something new with Stephen. Number 2: I hope you’re getting good mental health help because I don’t want to look at my subscription feed and find out that you offed yourself because no one checked in on you. My dad lost his leg so I know how much you have to rely on others for help with basic tasks and I saw his attitude physically change as he lost his independence, it was hard to watch. And that was with a leg, I can’t even imagine how hard this must be for you. You seem to be keeping an incredibly positive attitude on the outside, and I hope that matches what’s on the inside.
Also Stephen looks badass
Honestly this video makes human biology so much more impressive, even with our insane modern technology we can only just barely mimic our natural form
THE GOAT IS BACK!!!
1:56 lmao i find this particularly humorous because my dad's name is exactly steven with the ph (stephen)
I love your editing and i'm so happy for this video cause i've been wanting to see what it's really like to live like this i think your awesome
When I saw the king gizz shirt my jaw dropped and I pointed like a wojak
Man. Even if I’m not in the user base, the idea that a prosthesis can and will surpass the real thing with technology is the kind of thing that makes humanity very impressive.
Fr, Imagine just being able to swap your own hands like he showed in the video. I've always been on the fence about the idea of "optional prosthetics", but this video is kinda changing my mind about that.
Sadly, the technology is still a few decades behind. Funnily enough, the mechanicus from Warhammer are actually wrong: flesh is actually better than metal (for now at least).
There simply isn't a way to perfectly mimic our organic nervous system, as this video perfectly showed. The "communication" between the organic and the inorganic is still clunky and scuffed at best. Even if you were to completely change your entire body like Adam Smasher, as long as you still had an organic brain the communication would still be clunky, and it would be impossible to move around as quickly or as naturally as is depicted in the game. Obviously, this is bound to change in the future, hopefully.
I appreciate my right arm so much more after watching this. I'm also super impressed by the tools we have for amputees!
Love the humor and editing in your vids. It's pretty amazing how far modern medicine has come with helping those with disabilities. Hope you post more often. :D
8:57 Cyberpunk 2077 Cyberware
Edit: Bros getting the Projectile Launch System
We've made progress with prosthetics, but not as much as we thought we would. I've talked with a couple of engineers working on prosthetics for the military and they were of the opinion that we had a way higher chance of figuring out how to regrow a limb than engineering something like the Luke Skywalker arm.
you have a consistently good choice of shirts in this video :^]
This editing is great and this has been incredibly informative so far! Instant sub! Can’t wait to see what you do later on!
Hi Charlie, I'm studying biomedical engineering and I also participate in a startup team that designs and produces bionic arms. We are working with an amputee who volunteered to help us improve our works but still your video was really informative for me. Keep it up!
"let's blow this joint"
You kinda already did at 4:11