Budding Transhumanist Makes Himself A Sixth Finger

 Transhumanism

An engineering student at San Fransisco State University has built himself a robotic glove with a sixth finger, in what he calls an primitive experience in Transhumanism.

A student going by the moniker frenzy at San Francisco State University, who also works for DIY website Instructables, decided to see what it would be like to have a sixth finger.

He created a special glove with a robotic sixth finger that curls when he flexes the muscles in his wrist and arm. It uses Advancer Technologies‘ EMG Sensor and an Arduino processor to handle all the data.

The project was for his "Electronics and Robotics" class at San Francisco State University in the "Conceptual Information Arts" department.  He writes:

I’m interested in the future of transhumanism especially from a DIY perspective and what the layman can take to mold ones body however they wish. Body liberation will not happen through the corporation, even though it will be the ever arching fight of our times, but these changes may be necessary to keep resisting the status quo in a world of the hyperreal. Taking the ideas of transhumanism and the body as moldable, I use everyday objects to create a primitive transhuman experience, which the viewer can participate. This piece adds to the body a sixth finger to the left hand. its purpose is left ambigous on purpose, to engage the viewer on what these sorts of transformations can mean for the body. I encourage viewers of the piece to imagine a world where a primitive transhumanism could be advantageous. 

SOURCE  Instructables

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