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Prostheses have come a long way since the days of metal pincers that drew unwanted attention. This looks like the real thing—right down to the painted fingernails, freckles, and hair. It’s an example of the lifelike limbs turned out by Touch Bionics of Livingstone, Scotland, which uses an imaging system that accurately captures such features as skin tone and wrinkles.













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Willie Jones is an associate editor at IEEE Spectrum. In addition to editing and planning daily coverage, he manages several of Spectrum's newsletters and contributes regularly to the monthly Big Picture section that appears in the print edition.
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