10 January 2006 - Touch Bionics Features in Channel 4 Documentary

10 January 2006: This week UK’s Channel 4 are broadcasting a series of short documentaries entitled ‘Me & My Machine’. The series examines the personal, complicated and surprising relationships between people and the machines that are an integral part of their lives.

Today’s ‘Meet the Real Bionic Man’ film will feature TouchBionics’ i-LIMB™ Hand. Campbell Aird is a long-term advocate and patient of TouchBionics and uses a prototype in his daily life. During the film Campbell demonstrates some everyday uses of his i-LIMB Hand and how the micro-switch sensor in the shoulder unit detects minute movements in his shoulder to control the hand. Campbell goes on to explain how much the product has changed his life.
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Background Notes

A full selection of new high resolution management team and product images is available from the Company’s Online Press Office.

Archangels’ is now one of the largest angel syndicates in Europe. It was an early investor and ongoing supporter of Optos whose Optomap product is saving sight around the world. Recently, Optos successfully floated on the main market of the London Stock Exchange.

Touch Bionics is the UK-based award winning company focusing on the supply of electrically powered Upper Limb Prostheses (ULP). The company is based in Edinburgh, Scotland.

The Touch Bionics i-LIMB™ Hand offers users a step-change in functionality and performance, enabling patients to do more with their prosthetic hand. For example, the i-LIMB Hand has individually articulating fingers, a rotating thumb and a range of grip patterns. All these features are combined in a hand that is more anatomically correct than any other available product.

The i-LIMB Hand will be the first product available from the Touch Bionics i-LIMB System. The entire i-LIMB System, available in 2007, will be the world’s first complete endoskeletal modular arm system.