Bionic Hand-Almerina Mascarello

Madisyn Woosley

Almerina Mascarello of Italy has a bionic hand with sensory input. The hand can send sensory waves to her brian, giving her the ability to feel everything around her. She had lost her hand in a workplace accident in 1993. She became part of a six-month experiment at Rome’s Policlinico Gemelli hospital and was fitted with the prosthetic in June 2016. Almerina said, “ It’s almost like its back!”. Something like that isn’t cheap, it costs $11,000 in...Read More

Almerina Mascarello of Italy has a bionic hand with sensory input. The hand can send senso...Read More