Mercedes Gifts 14 Year Old With Bionic Hand

Long gone are the days of the awkward stares at people who have lost a limb or who were born without hands and/or use prosthetic limbs. With so many of our military men and women coming home with missing limbs it is becoming quite the norm to see individuals who use prosthetic limbs. Out of bad comes good. The almost sudden rise in the need for prosthetics have brought about tremendous innovations like the i-LIMB Pulse bionic hand that was given to a 14 year boy from Mercedes GP Head Ross Brawn as a gift.

"Matthew James, a 14-year-old boy in the UK, was born with a rare condition – his left arm stops at the wrist and he has no left hand. He had been fitted with a simple electric clamp of sorts that allowed him the freedom to pick up small objects but little else.

Young Matthew is also a big fan of motorsports, and he went to the same school as Mercedes GP head Ross Brawn. That connection was enough to pique Brawn's interest when Matthew wrote the team a letter asking them to consider gifting him a new i-LIMB Pulse bionic hand from Touch Bionics."

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