Have you ever thought about using an extra thumb? Perhaps you could play the guitar faster, or hold an extra tool as you continue to work? Well think no more, as Dani Clode has invented just that. We took a trip down to the University of Cambridge, where she collaborates with neuroscientist Tamar Makin to unravel the mysteries of how this extra thumb influences the brain.
Dani envisions a future where augmentation becomes a reality and the third thumb serves as a tool to enhance the capabilities of regular individuals. She also explores the impact this additional thumb can have on daily tasks and cognitive functions. We explore the potential applications of the third thumb, by getting our filmmaker Stuart to test it out and see how it affects his brain by putting him in an MRI to test its functions.
This is the story of Dani Clode’s third thumb and the transformative potential it holds for the future!
#Technology #Thumb #Neuroscience
00:00 Intro
00:20 What is the Third Thumb?
00:54 Where did the idea come from?
02:28 Letting the crew try the Third Thumb
04:08 The science behind the Third Thumb
05:10 Vision of the Third Thumb
05:49 Do our crew have any brain activity?
06:40 Dani the rockstar
07:30 Bloopers
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Keep up with her work: plasticity-lab.com
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A 3D printed thumb is insane right?! 🤯 What other scientific inventions would you love to see in the future? 👀👇
Strandbeest with guns
I'm sure it's to make people's lives better, and nothing to do with the 1% being able to let the working class collapse when they concentrate the wealth to themselves.
A $100 dollar bill 3d printer😅
I would love to see the most vulnerable in the world have a chance at thriving instead of just surviving. And also end control of corporations running our governments and our lives. Shameful. The extra thumb is cool though but we have much bigger problems to address now, narrowing the gap between rich and poor, authoritarianism creeping into our democratic processes, making abortion legal again in many states in America(I can't believe I am witnessing the regression of women's rights after all the work people have done.)
A kind of glasses on the forehead, when it realizes that we are straining our vision to see far away, it slowly goes down to do so, when up close too
That's one way to make AI art more realistic.
That and an extra arm altogether.
Once it starts hitting the model's data sets it is gonna confuse them so much 🤣
Heh.
This comment is the best
Actually more than six fingers😂
I have no other option but to give this two thumbs up
We like how you think 😁😂
@@GreatBigStorybeing a furry, robotic tails are already a thing as well as mind controlled cat ears. Cannot wait for what’s next! Maybe even an extra sense made tangible.
@@iamarizonaball2642👁️👄👁️
we stray further from the light every day...
I think in this case it would actually be 3 thumbs up 👍 👍👍
These people really need to collaborate with the woman who made the mind-controller for video games. Imagine the prosthetics we could make with that!!
i am starting to believe it is a scam lie or someone not telli the whole truth. iv seem the video. weird thing is iv seen another video of a guy who claims he is the first. and weird thing the headset the animation the programm and art all look exactly the same. so how can that be.
I think they just bought it
@@gregoryturk1275 so now they just boughtg it? see 2 people having the same thing, claiming they are the first. if they bought it. someone must have made it and tested it etc. so they cant be the first one. seems more and more BS
@@XhodanXeus There was a commercially available cognitive input device for sale in my local computer shop ten years ago. It's perfectly believable, it's just a bit shit and very few people could get the hang of it.
@@RepentandbelieveinJesusChrist5 or how about just be a good human being. ever think of that? an atheist who is a good human being and helps others is better than someone who believes in god. because the atheist does it out of his own free will, he believes you must be a good person without anyone telling him. look at religion it needs someone to tell them be a good person, you are not a good person because of your own FREE WILL no but because someone tells you too. so who really is a better person? if you do it on your own free will!!!
Fascinating. As a Hand Surgeon, who focuses much on basal joint arthritis, of the thumb, this certainly can help those patients although my focus remains on eliminating that pain and helping the excellent thumb we already have.
Easy to use, easy to attach. This is a neat implementation for the initial idea. Good work! I would be looking forward to the creator's ideas and inventions.
And since it's so simple it really makes for a great tool for studying the science of it all
@@RepentandbelieveinJesusChrist5 get a life and stop bothering people with good sense
Omg this is so cool to see Dani in a video 5 years later. I remember first seeing her around 5 or 6 years ago on Bloomberg, insider or maybe buzzfeed showing her invention in early stages. It's awesome to see her still in the field and the commitment she's made to stay in it. Admittedly, at the time of first upload this tech was kinda new and I was a bit skeptical. I'm happy to report today, I could not be more happy to have been proven wrong :))
1950s: In the future, I believe there will be a flying car. 2023: Haha, extra thumb.
Haha funny but really clever idea! (And not really relevant for context, but I would just like to point out that I find the personal style of the designer absolutely epic)
Can you imagine if this becomes normal in twenty years? Everyone walking around with extra digits.
She is so invested. You can tell she's all in.
Which is why she is biased to it's adoption.
Is the Design Open Source? If not can it be released under a CC License? I would LOVE to print one, and collaboration can push all this forward!
Anyone who has used VR can attest to how flexible the human brain is at augmentations. I constantly try to turn around my real body using VR controls if I've gotten turned around and now the cable is rubbing against my leg.
I know right? It drives me nuts. Idk why I always seem to turn slowly in the same direction when using VR. I hate having to spin in a circle to untangle, when playing smooth locomotion games already makes me quite dizzy
Wireless VR is a gamechanger
@@DivinityAwakenedYes. But latency and battery life are dealbreakers.
@@MildMisanthropeMaybeMassive both are easily solvable with a good Internet connection and an external battery
I'm not going to lie, I'm usually a snobby engineer that would look down on arts students (mostly jokingly) but this just opened up my eyes to so much more. Thank you GBS and Dani
Dani and Stuart have great chemistry.
This could be mass produced today with a few design tweaks; slightly stretchy gloves in a few general sizes...so they stretch to firmly fit. And a liquid and dust resistant cover over the Robotic Thumbs so they are fairly easy to clean. Using a Brain Scanner to control a Mouse Cursor or some mechanical device does work...but takes dozens of hours per person to learn what the Brain Scanner is sensing specifically...then put part of the brain in the one or a few states that correspond to Left/Right Motions, Up/Down Motions, Left Mouse Click or Click and Hold, Right Mouse Click or Click and Hold, etc. So it works but there is a long learning process for both the Human and the Computer Program to 'understand' or to react predictably to specific Brain States. But this? Most Humans who are not paralyzed from injury, can reliably move their Big Toes individually and reasonably precisely around the time they learn to stand up and walk. So the mass produced version of this 'extra thumb' could be sold as one cheaper version of what is shown since it's mass produced; a 'glove with electromechanical actuators for the extra thumb' + a sock that very precisely measures motion and relative position of one Big Toe. Or the more expensive version would be one extra thumb for each hand...linked to the right Big Toe for the Extra Right Thumb, and linked to the Left Big Toe for the Extra Left Thumb. But there is another market for this idea; anyone missing a hand could have one sensor on one Big Toe, and another on their other Big Toe. Moving Big Toes would control two fingers as a single action; apposing fingers for a new cheaper and easier to learn way to control prosthetic hand/fingers. It will take multiple product generations to get something I am trying to describe that is at a middle class cost...but this is such a straightforward idea that High School Robotics Clubs could try to make their own version of it, so in 20 years there should be some very cool versions.
Omg I want one or two! They would be so helpful in my work! Love and light!
I wonder how long it would take for the brain to fully learn to coordinate the new thumb with an existing hand. I also wonder how removal of the new thumb will feel afterwards.
We would need to alocate neurons for the new lamb. This a painfull and difficult process, if not impossible. This mean one adjacente area in motor cortex would need to be reduced to create this new space. What may be possible with neuroplasticity (nobody knows actualy) The same go for artifficial limbs replacement. If we could at last use this same useless neurons who actualy cause Phantom pain before they migrate. But we do not have technology for that. Maybe in 100 yeats
Until now, I didn’t think I needed a third thumb, but now I’m wondering what it’s like.
I've been writing a fantasy book where one of the races in it actually does have two thumbs on each hand, and this video just gave me a WHOLE lot of context too not only how would that race grab and interact with things with their extra thumb, but also how the brain will work with it and a great opportunity for me too personally see what it's like (quick explanation too why I mentioned the brain for a fantasy book; while I was aiming for straight fantasy, I somehow ended up marrying fantasy and sci-fi together for it. That's why I mentioned the brain.). Thank you Great Big Story for uploading this video and thank you KZhead Recommendations for suggesting this video. =) Have a nice day everyone. =)
That’s the worst novel idea I ever heard .. you will probably make it 😂
@@educatorofneedy5756 what is bad about it?
@@educatorofneedy5756 What, a fantasy and sci-fi combo book? Trust me, I am aiming for pure fantasy; but this book that I'm currently writing is suppost to be an introduction too the world, it's inhabitance, civilizations and religions in it because I've developed so much lore for it in the 8+ years I've been creating it (by the way, I'm 19 years old for reference) and I have a habit of making sure there's as little plot holes in my stories as possible (yes, stor *ies* ; I did loose count of how many I have in my head but I'm decently certain it's over 35 stories, ranging from TV shows, plays, comics and just about every genre you can imagen), that I do have too write this book first so that no one will be completely confused by the whole thing. And I will admit I've grew up watching fantasy and sci-fi movies, TV shows and so on for the LARGE majority of my life so it is entirely possible that in my ND mind I did somehow get the two mixed up. =P But, trust me, there is a method too my madness; and I seriously don't know how I ended up making it a fantasy sci-fi combo, I really just don't know how I did that. {=) And, um. . whaddia mean by "you will probably make it"? Do ya mean make the book or make it in the literacy industry?
@@educatorofneedy5756shut up
Awesome stuff, Dani. Keep using that big brain to help enrich other's lives. Bravo.
O mundo precisa de mais cientistas malucos como essa mulher.
Some of us have used our feet like hands most of our life, so this toe control seems natural
I thumbsed up this 20 seconds in. Amazing
This is awesome! But you should add a soft silicone bad to it for gripping smooth objects
now we've seen a updated video on this, we need so see one on that vibrating glove that teaches your piano passively.
How many times have we felt we needed an extra hand? This could be the next best thing.
piano player, yeah. You know what i could do with the full keyboard at once?!
An extra digit and an extra limb are not the same. Your brain would reject it.
@@MR-nl8xr ok? well that means my brain is extra not cool
There seems to be a great many studies and innovations that pertain to the hand but in comparison not so much for improving the part(parts)that are our means of getting around.
dude this is so sick!
This is amazing
The great big story has come back!
Bro's gonna end up like Doc Ock 💀
I had the Sixth Finger toy as a kid... this is even cooler!
Touching myself with this is going to be .... Two thumbs up
Dexterity, and great hand/eye coordination are priority in histology. I wonder what this could add to what I do at work.
Love it
As a piano player this would be so freaking helpful
Would it? Anyone who's been playing for years has developed their entire technique around the use of 5 fingers. Centuries of piano repertoire also assumes the use of 5 fingers. If you now have a 6th, it seems like you'd have to build up all your reflexes and muscle memory from scratch.
@@alans98989Maybe there will be piano music made for six fingers in the distant future
This is amazing! Humanity has come a long way in the past 100 years.
Sad to hear you say this, since this is old news to Truthful Archaeologists & Historians, who have known that this (and things like double rowed teeth & taller body size) have been around for a lot longer than 100 years.
Clever lady. Full marks.
cool i can see it being usefull for a lot
very cool, but where or when we will be able to buy one? looks so cool tbh
I was born with an extra finger on my right hand, sadly it didn't have Muscle use so it was removed at a Very young age but hey, got a fun little lump/nub of its presence.
Sell the hardware kit please!!! Looks like a fun project to mold one to ones own hand
Humans are going to be so interesting in the future. Extra fingers, brain implants, virtual physical immortality, just straight up sci fi stuff haha
Is it still a concept or where do they sell them. I need two of those.
Beautiful, ill take two
But this is only seeing how we react with things now after adding the thumb. I would be far more interested in seeing how things would be now if we had already had the extra thumb. What would tools look like etc.
I give this video 4 thumbs ups!
I have wondered why we don't have an opposing opposable thumb. There's even a perfect spot for it on the palm already
“We’re going to test your brain” “…cool” 😂
Now that's the future, The blink of the future. We need things that add to our abilities.
When will these be available for commercial purchase? Like this sounds like it’d be great for every day use.
Not when you control it with your foot
@@petebagwell6666yeah what would you use it with then?
When do we get a piano concerto for the third thumb, third thumb jazz players and ‘thumb metal’?
Can we get STL, or instructions for building this?
Oh, that’s very handy.
Most people dont fully utilize the appendages we have. I still want extra appendages tho. Can i get a prehensile tail, please?
Can't wait to see Doc Ock become a real thing.
6:41 feels so wrong, but looks awesome 🤘🤘😂
This human enhancement tech is giving major Machamp vibes. Very cool.
After this vid I immediately watched the outer limits episode the 6th finger with the late David McCallum:)
My husband has always had the use if one hand... and it's wearing out. I wonder if this could help him.
Where can I download the STL? /s
I’ve actually noticed that I sometimes hold things like the extra thumb but with my pinky.. it sometimes works lmao
Great, it frees my others to pick my nose with...
finally one step close to me having a extra pair of arms.
I want one also I love her suit, but the cuff on the white side should be black, It bugs me
Imagine the possibilities for thumb wars
Where can I get one!?
Can i use it for doble tap HP in street fighter?
I want a third thumb.
Every time I see some shit like this I just imagine Squidward writhing on the ground screaming "FUUUTUUUURE"
when can I buy this???
Waiting for that day when a mad scientist showcases machine tentacles...
Good idea, another finger i have no use for beyond the initial 4 on each hand.
You don't use your thumb?
@@yzzduk4743 I dont use my pinkie.
I think they pretty clearly showed how you can use a third thumb. Also, I think if you keep track of when you use your pinky, you'll find you use it more than you think
@@sorin_markov Like i said, i dont use my pinkie. Not when typing, not when holding things. And as its already opposing to my thumb, its basically a thinner, weaker, more fragile and less precise version of my thumb. And using it actively hurts. So no, i dont use my pinkie, unless having it bump into things or cause discomfort while handwriting counts as a use.
interesting. is it hard to learn to use it while u walk? if it gets hardy enough upgrades imagine the parkour applications
That's so silly. Yet so interesting.
GBS Nice 👍
I need that
imagine how many joints you could roll with this
Perfect for my nose
imagine the card tricks with this
How about typing? Or piano?
Damn didn’t realise you could literally buy new body part upgrades now
Finally, a way to make xenomorph and halo elite cosplays more realistic.
The greatest thing to come out of Australia since Paul Hogan. 😂
I feel like if someone attached an artificial tail in our back and connected it to our spine, we would be able to control it without much training. I think our monkey brains still have some data stored somewhere on how to do it. I can almost feel it, when i try to immagine it, at least the muscles that are close to the butt, much more than when i'm immagining an extra limb, so i'm not sure it's just placebo
i mean the end of the spine basically counts as a tail, more or less so i think you are right and most people would be able to use it by instinct
i hate to break it to you, but that's not quite how it works. plus, we came from tail-less apes, not directly from monkeys. there's a CONSIDERABLE few amount of steps of evolution between us and them.
@@oatmeal3013 source? If i try to move my non existant tail, some muscles down there start to hurt. Now it might be something else, but i'm more inclined to believe there's still something in us. Placebo is a thing but this is a stronger i feel.
@@oatmeal3013 ps looking at the internet, there's cases of people being born with small tails that can even move sometimes (the tails are usually malformed)
@@oatmeal3013 my comment gets deleted for no reason, i said that on the internet there's cases of people being born with tails that can even be moved, and our tail bone can move with muscle contraction
Like in 2077, what would stop people from adding a new bionic limb? And is that a good or bad thing? And would there be drm in the new limb? So many questions we have to answer in the court of law.
Like any technology, it would have good and bad. Some good is clear, and that’s the point of doing this. Likely, there’ll be more good we haven’t thought of. I’m not sure how the bad will look, but it is inevitable.
I'm sure it will be used to help everyday people, and has nothing to do with increasing the ability of the 1% to allow the working class collapse when they concentrate the wealth yo themselves.
@@jaegrant6441 Not 1%, evil people can come from anywhere, like 2077 proves. Your upbringing matters not in life. You must simply adapt and evolve to never fade away if you will.
@@Butter_Warrior99 I get what you're saying. I'm more commenting from observations of history and using a modern phrase to describe the group I'm talking about. Would Oligarchs be a better phrase? Bourgeoise? Elites? Wealth hoarders? Maybe the 0.2%? The situation is the same. When wealth become concentrated into only a few hands, the working class revolts or collapses. With robotics and Al, the wealthy don't need a working class.
@@jaegrant6441 Those filled with vices and no virtues.
Wait this channel is up and running again?
nice
WOW! so much stroke patients
Nice. Always thought it's a shame humans only have one opposable thumb.
Next: "do you want an extra leg?"
"here is no truth in flesh, only betrayal. There is no strength in flesh, only weakness. There is no constancy in flesh, only decay. There is no certainty in flesh but death."
Bruh those who had extra fingers inborn upon watching probably felt like they have the god rng of all time 😂
Maybe experiment with gecko skin or different suction thumbs for even better grip.
my uncle jim could make that in his garage with a torch and a bud light.... you got soft hands brother.
I want a extra thumb on each one of my hands it would be amazing an I don't know why we were not born with an extra thumb on the opposite side of each hand or bottom of the hand it would help so much. 😊
hearing this accent is always a nice surprise
When my therapist asks me why I have feelings of inadequacy about being a ten fingered piano player.
since so much of this technology has been popping up recently, i really hope to see people with like 4 arms on the street some day
the thing she made is not that hard. really if you know your thing you can make that in one day
@@hurairahsartandcraft4515 4 arms is astronomical compared to thumbs bud..If not it takes millions to research like Dr. Oc in spiderman...
@@hurairahsartandcraft4515yeah and how many people know the thing??? Not many.
@@samzfisherdon't talk about something you don't know. the fact that you mentioned Spiderman here just proves it. Furthermore, making 4 arms for you might take a lot of research if you want to mass-produce it. if you want to make your own it won't take much time. maybe 2-3 months max. the one day was just a metaphor
@@herobrine1847by your user and you pfp, you dont. but this thing is easy to make. 4 arms or more. just need the resources. so one day is a metaphor. so please don't talk about the things you know nothing of