What an extra thumb can do

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imagine if you had an extra thumb will

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the amazing things you would be able to

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do like play the guitar faster or eat a

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bag of chips with one hand it's

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delicious well we went to the University

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of Cambridge to find out what amazing

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things we could do with

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it the third thumb is a 3D printed extra

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thumb for your hand that's controlled

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with your toes I was really trying to

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investigate that relationship between

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the wearer and prosthetic I wanted to

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feel what it was like to be in control

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of something that I was wearing but that

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had kind of this proportional control

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that was responding to my movements what

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I really envisioned for the third fil is

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more specific workplaces that then you

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do a slight redesign so for example I've

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spoken with a shoulder surgeon and he

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was really interested in being able to

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hold his multiple tools at the same time

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rather than collaborate with an

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assistant so how did Danny start working

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on the third thumb I've always been

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interested in designing for the body I

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think that's so much more interesting as

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a as a products owner and then it wasn't

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until uh my masters at the Royal College

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B that I really started exploring

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Prosthetics I'm not a medical

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professional working in Prosthetics uh

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in the medical field that is a whole

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kind of different area I'm working in

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this more exploratory field we're trying

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to split it off into prosthetic versus

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augmentation