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| Photo credit: Jerry Jalava/Flickr |
A Finnish software developer has blurred the line between human and cyborg a little further. Jerry Jalava, who lost a finger when his motorcycle crashed into a deer last May, didn’t mind wearing a prosthetic digit, but wanted it to be functional for more than just typing and gripping. The self-described hacker, who hails from Riihimäki, Finland, asked his prosthetist to design into his new silicone ring finger a functional United Serial Bus (USB) flash-memory drive covered by a fold-back fingertip. Jalava refers to the device—which most people would call a “jump drive” or, ironically, a “thumb drive”—as his “You-SB drive.”
