"Luke" Arm Begins Widespread Testing Among Veterans

I guess you can't use the arm and walk at the same time. Could be dangerous having that thing flailing around as you run down the street. On another note....AWESOME!!! What about power, how long does the battery last?

Very interesting story. And I suppose this is the worst kind of niggling/nitpicking... but in terms of journalistic style... shouldn't it be defined why, exactly, this is called a "Luke" arm? I happen to understand it simply because I do; and of course there's hinting. But again, in terms of professional style, I'd think that such an unusual derivation requires explanation.
Again, no real quibble with the article content, but just a thought.

WAY TO GO DEAN!!!

Technically, Luke didn't lose his arm. Only his hands at the wrist/mid-forearm. So, it's not really accurate to call it the "Luke Arm" when the real thing was only a prosthetic hand. And even then, Luke had feedback through the hand which somehow fed into his nervous system to give him tactile sensation.

Robert1234 The best thing to do is not creat the need by useless and self-defeating wars. With a current 65% casualty rate, this is the worst war America has ever fought. It's also the first war in history where the idiots who started it admitted it was a mistake and then continued on for years and years and billions of dollars and thousands of casualties. Frankly, the idiots who participate in what they know is an illegal and useless war get very little of my sympathy. We've killed some 650,000 kids with the sanctions, about 200,000 Iraqi who never did anything to us until we illegally invaded, and I'm supposed to feel sorry for the idiots doing the killing? Then need to be in prison, from my point of view. "It's not why you went to war, it's that you went to war at all." Nurenburg trial of Nazi war criminals.

Now is the arm, future is a great auto robot, I will wait too see that auto robot.
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Robert1234, you have an over simplistic view of geopolitics. We always have and will kill each other for resources/perceived advantage. We evolved to be competitive, and it has served us well. We use sanctions because we cant make them stand in the corner. If push comes to shove you kick some butt. I dont mind if you dont like soldiers, and most of them could probably care less. The world is a complex place, and we cant talk all our problems away. Israel has tried talking for years, but most arab countries would like to see them wiped off the map. Thank Dog for men that have the balls to fight. I wish it weren't so, but that is the world in which we live.