From a home DNA test to an invisibility cloak to the world’s first moving skyscraper. TIME Magazine picks the top 50 innovations of 2008.
Ranking #14 is the world’s first commercially available bionic hand. Created by Touch Bionics, it’s multi-articulating, meaning each finger has its own motor. Artificial hands are often hook-like, limited to simple open and close gestures. But the iLimb has more subtle capabilities, like a credit-card grip for grasping narrow objects, and power hold for larger objects like coffee mugs.
TIME’s Best Inventions of 2008
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