Sure, the hand is dismembered, but if you’re into the game, you won’t even notice. If you have a powerful enough imagination to hook yourself into a game like this (and I do), a little thing like a Thing avatar isn’t going to toss you out of the scene.

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Stem Cell Transplant Cures HIV In ‘Berlin Patient’.
Timothy Ray Brown, also known as the “Berlin Patient,” received the transplant in 2007 as part of a lengthy treatment course for leukemia. His doctors recently published a report in the journal Blood affirming that the results of extensive testing “strongly suggest that cure of HIV infection has [...]

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Geekologie and about a billion other nerdy sites posted about a robot tentacle prosthetic today, saying it was designed by Kaylene Kau as part of a student project. It took me a while of clicking through the cross-linking to realize I’d have to Google to find out who Kaylene is.
She’s a recent graduate from the [...]

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Almost exactly five years ago, I wrote about a complex and interesting Bluetooth-enabled vibrator called The Toy. The one drawback of The Toy was the limited number of phones it was compatible with. But now, there’s a free Android app. I’ve downloaded it, but I have to charge my The Toy to see if it [...]

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