{"id":9793,"date":"2021-05-25T15:11:12","date_gmt":"2021-05-25T14:11:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/openbionics.com\/bionic-luke\/"},"modified":"2021-05-25T15:11:12","modified_gmt":"2021-05-25T14:11:12","slug":"bionic-luke","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/openbionics.com\/de\/bionic-luke\/","title":{"rendered":"Bionic Luke"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"large-header\">\n            <div class=\"large-header__image \">\n        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1732\" height=\"1154\" src=\"https:\/\/openbionics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_2940.jpg\" class=\"large-header__image-element\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/openbionics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_2940.jpg 1732w, https:\/\/openbionics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_2940-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/openbionics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_2940-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/openbionics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_2940-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/openbionics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_2940-1536x1023.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1732px) 100vw, 1732px\" \/>      <\/div>\n      \n      <div class=\"large-header__container\">\n      <h1 class=\"large-header__title\">Bionic Luke<\/h1>\n      <button class=\"scroll-down\"><\/button>\n    <\/div>\n  <\/section>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-heading\">Luke <\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">After having difficult experiences with prosthetics as a child, Luke becomes one of the first Hero Arm users, here is his bionic journey. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:44px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n\n<div class=\"section image-text\">\n\t<div class=\" image-text__container  row-reverse\">\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"image-text__image-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"image-text__image\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1154\" height=\"1732\" src=\"https:\/\/openbionics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_3148.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" style=\"max-width:100%;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/openbionics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_3148.jpg 1154w, https:\/\/openbionics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_3148-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/openbionics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_3148-682x1024.jpg 682w, https:\/\/openbionics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_3148-768x1153.jpg 768w, https:\/\/openbionics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_3148-1023x1536.jpg 1023w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1154px) 100vw, 1154px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t<div class=\"image-text__content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"image-text__title\">When I was little, my myoelectric hand was heavy and clumsy.<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"image-text__description\"><p>I\u2019m Luke, I was born without my left hand. From a very young age, my dad taught me to adapt to life with one hand. These lessons (although they didn\u2019t feel like lessons at the time) came in the form of puzzles and other mind-bending tasks. It was these, I think, that paved the way for my later interest (and now career) in engineering and problem-solving.\u00a0Between the ages of 6 months old and 5 years, I used a myoelectric hand which was very heavy and clumsy. It would crush soft objects like sandwiches and drop things randomly when the sensors misread my muscles. Needless to say, this could look quite creepy, and as a young child, made me feel like the technology was hopeless. Thanks to the\u00a0Hero Arm, the opposite is now true.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n\n<div class=\"section image-text\">\n\t<div class=\" image-text__container \">\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"image-text__image-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"image-text__image\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1731\" height=\"1155\" src=\"https:\/\/openbionics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Luke-Manson_small.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" style=\"max-width:100%;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/openbionics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Luke-Manson_small.jpg 1731w, https:\/\/openbionics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Luke-Manson_small-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/openbionics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Luke-Manson_small-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/openbionics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Luke-Manson_small-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/openbionics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Luke-Manson_small-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1731px) 100vw, 1731px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t<div class=\"image-text__content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"image-text__title\">&quot;The\u00a0Hero Arm transformed the way people looked at me.&quot;<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"image-text__description\"><p>I was never exactly bullied at school, but children are naturally curious and asked a lot of questions. As a result, I became quite determined to show that I didn\u2019t need a prosthetic and pushed myself to find solutions that would enable me to be as good as, or better than, abled people at two-handed tasks without wearing one. First I got into swimming, which helped strengthen the muscles that I would otherwise not have developed. And this eventually led me to play underwater hockey (octopush) and take up rock climbing.\u00a0No matter how much I compensated for my disability, however, I would still spend far too much time worrying about fitting in. When you live with a visibly apparent disability, you do become sensitive to the fact that people stare. The\u00a0Hero Arm\u00a0changed that and transformed the way people looked at me.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n\n<div class=\"section image-text\">\n\t<div class=\" image-text__container  row-reverse\">\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"image-text__image-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"image-text__image\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"684\" src=\"https:\/\/openbionics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/DSC_7846-copy-1024x684-1.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" style=\"max-width:100%;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/openbionics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/DSC_7846-copy-1024x684-1.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/openbionics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/DSC_7846-copy-1024x684-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/openbionics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/DSC_7846-copy-1024x684-1-768x513.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t<div class=\"image-text__content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"image-text__title\">&quot;I can honestly say that it\u2019s tough to imagine life without it&quot;<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"image-text__description\"><div class=\"feature__main feature__main--normal\">\n<div class=\"feature__content feature__content--normal\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\">I first encountered the Open Bionics team when I\u2019d just finished my Engineering degree. As you can imagine, I was naturally fascinated by their work. They explained how the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/openbionics.com\/hero-arm\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hero Arm<\/a>\u00a0worked and let me test one of the prototypes. I was blown away by the responsiveness, and how light the whole thing was. Not to mention the way people reacted to seeing me wear it. I also started to realise that I could do some everyday things that I had accepted as things I couldn\u2019t do. These are the things most people take for granted, like holding a saucepan in one hand while stirring with the other. Even carrying shopping to and from the car. I also realised I could finally hold two VR controllers, which was perfect, as job was at a company that worked with VR and simulations. I\u2019ve now been living with and testing the Hero Arm since 2017, and I can honestly say that it\u2019s tough to imagine life without it.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Luke After having difficult experiences with prosthetics as a child, Luke becomes one of the first Hero Arm users, here is his bionic journey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-9793","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Bionic Luke - Open Bionics<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/openbionics.com\/de\/bionic-luke\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"de_DE\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Bionic Luke - 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