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10 reasons why having a real bionic arm would be the best thing ever

It's good for more than just swinging

Words: Matt Cundy, GamesRadar UK

It extends. It retracts. It spins. It grips. It pulls. Bionic Arm is without doubt a very cool appendage. The bionically enhanced commando uses it to deflect bullets, swing like a baboon, toss exploding barrels about and, er, unscrew things. But if by some miracle of modern science or Frankensteinian butchery Bionic Arm could be grafted on to our own body, how would we utilize the magical telescopic limb?

That's the exact question we asked ourselves recently and it didn't take us long to arrive at the unanimous conclusion that having a real Bionic Arm would probably be the Best Thing Ever. Don't believe us? Here's 10 barely serviceable pictures crudely illustrating our reasoning...

Sept 18, 2008


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burningmunkey  - 1 year 2 months ago 
LOVE the art style! No really - its awesome!

LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL
lewis42025  - 1 year 2 months ago 
hilarious
Z-man427  - 1 year 2 months ago 
I'd rather have a prehensile tail
KHfan  - 1 year 2 months ago 
lol

love the drawings
jamboy199three  - 1 year 2 months ago 
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lol

i love paint!!!!

do u want a chicken?
Juriasu  - 1 year 2 months ago 
Great.

And I do want a chicken!
Amnesiac  - 1 year 2 months ago 
It's okay, my ass is numb too.
frmonth  - 1 year 2 months ago 
lol the drawing and ideas are great i like the placard one the best lol
Tasty_Pasta  - 1 year 2 months ago 
Lol, arm wrestling Doc Ock!
georgeguy  - 1 year 2 months ago 
funny mini artical

lol pictures
TheBestEver  - 1 year 2 months ago 
do better
londonjack  - 1 year 2 months ago 
right on about the not getting up to change game discs, i dread that moment.
NelosAngelos  - 1 year 2 months ago 
High quality stuff there. If only I had a bionic arm...*sigh*
SpikeDelight  - 1 year 2 months ago 
All this is well and good but you forgot this isn't a Doc Ock tentacle it's a Bionic Arm that can only go up, diagonal or forwards, and you can't control how far it goes out or keep it there without latching onto something so it would probably be impractical in everyday life.

:D
bull06  - 1 year 2 months ago 
woo no need for chairs with a bionic arm
ALF  - 1 year 2 months ago 
The things I could do with that arm.....
GamesRadar_MattCundy  - 1 year 2 months ago 
@SpikeDelight
Obviously you'd have to make a few technical adjustments before having Bionic Arm fused to your body. It'd be a pretty big commitment and having an arm that couldn't bend would probably be quite annoying I'd imagine.
ELpork  - 1 year 2 months ago 
How can you sit on it if its an arm?
bron1417  - 1 year 2 months ago 
HAHA WOW. great drawings.
Shellghost  - 1 year 2 months ago 
i'd so rather Doc Ocks tentacles to a boinic arm anyday, like SpikeDelight said, it would be incredibly impractible unlike those kickass tentacles
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