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2006/08/23

The world’s first foot prosthesis based on the touch-sensitive technology has been developed!

The Intellectual foot module Proprio Foot is a joint creation of Icelandic and Canadian researches. It has been designed for the handicapped life facilitation allowing them to lie down, sit down and stand up easily.

The artificial foot is equipped with a number of transducers that receive information from sensors and calculate each step of the owner. After the gained information has been processed, the motion is made; moreover, the prosthesis is easily trained and memorizes his owners unique gait pattern.

The touch-sensitive surface of this device is capable of determining basic types of the surfaces the person walks on. That could be plaint surface or a ladder. In either case the prosthesis behaves correspondingly, depending on the owner’s body position.

2006/08/15 The first digital content kiosk has been installed in Leningrad region!

2006/08/29 A touch-sensitive device capable of distinguishing potential terrorists among air passengers with a high degree of possibility has been developed in Israel!

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