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I've been a cook my whole life meaning I
love to cook and it's how I give back
because I'm an amputee and I am wearing
a prosthesis every day I found ways to
adapt with the tech that exists but as
far as creating and building something
new you know there's not that many
people doing it I've traveled as a
personal chef for 12 years and more
recently I guess I've become an amputee
and a bionic chef meaning that I'm
working with sort of my prosthetic limbs
and technology to get back into my
career choice when I lost my limb there
was a lot of unknown getting back into
the kitchen for me but I did I jumped in
I got back in and realized strengths and
weaknesses
food is so sensual you have to be like
firm to soft at the same time that's
really hard to do with the titanium hook
that's body part a part of me may always
want to just have this wearable tech
yeah in the mechanical state until it's
developed to a whole new place but if I
was going to dream something up it would
be a non harnessed self fastening
prosthetic that has total sensitivity of
touch total temperature sensitivity you
can't feel if you're dropping something
you can't feel if you're you know
squeezing the pulp out of a tomato and
all you want to do is just delicately
hold it and put it somewhere I think
there's a lot of practical application
that you could put in that doesn't exist
when I use this I flex my whole upper
body whereas when we move our hands and
you can do nothing except think about
it's the tech side not the mechanical
make up side of the tool that I'm
interested in I have a very holistic
utilitarian approach to wearable tech if
it doesn't suit my immediate needs if I
can't run drum cook rock and roll with
it I won't use or wear it this is a non
digital piece of wearable tech for me
it's sort of pulley intentioned driven I
can tighten it and I can loosen it it's
almost like having a Worf belt on it
just allows me to keep doing what I'm
doing
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inspired and really blown away by what
is available to amputees the wearable
tech industry has been kicking out the
myoelectric hands my electric is a
description of a type of prosthesis that
works off your muscle impulses to a
motherboard or a sensor or software that
then controls whatever the attachment is
you can control 25 different functions
you can control it with your iPhone
through Bluetooth there's so much you
can do with this hand
what I'm doing is I'm just firing those
muscles now with good control it'll open
and close slowly whereas if I really
want to close it
I'll just flex harder it's hard in their
progression from the first phase of my
electric hands where they're at now
they've made a lot of leaps and bounds
but they're still very susceptible to
climate if you're out skiing battery's
gonna die in a heartbeat waterproof as a
chef I'm in and out of the water all day
long and one drop into any of those
micro processors has the ability to
short-circuit and damage that hand I
mean as a chef you want to find that
place that flow state where you dancing
where you're moving with it the biggest
thing for me is developing the text so
that it's faster stronger and the
sensitivity the ability to while working
here and multitasking you can feel
what's going on
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this sort of thick red broth is period
red chilli's you can do it with pork
beef chicken it's okay but we're all
creatures of attraction meaning
whatever's new whatever is kind of
peeking around the corner you're gonna
want to check it out and get involved or
have a taste in the wearable tech
industry you'll have more of an interest
in not because I need it but I kind of
want to have something like this going
on so I don't burn myself and I can
smash bad claws with my forearm and
people want to be wearing more devices
clothing tech fashion that allows them
to up the ante so if you want to bring
wearable tech and either adds to what
you get back it as to who you bring to
the equation every day why not
you