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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

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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...

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30 Comments

burningmunkey - 2 months 5 days ago

LOVE the art style! No really - its awesome!

LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL

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lewis42025 - 2 months 5 days ago

hilarious

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Z-man427 - 2 months 5 days ago

I'd rather have a prehensile tail

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KHfan - 2 months 4 days ago

lol

love the drawings

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jamboy199three - 2 months 4 days ago

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lol

i love paint!!!!

do u want a chicken?

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Juriasu - 2 months 4 days ago

Great.

And I do want a chicken!

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Amnesiac - 2 months 4 days ago

It's okay, my ass is numb too.

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frmonth - 2 months 4 days ago

lol the drawing and ideas are great i like the placard one the best lol

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Tasty_Pasta - 2 months 4 days ago

Lol, arm wrestling Doc Ock!

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georgeguy - 2 months 4 days ago

funny mini artical

lol pictures

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TheBestEver - 2 months 4 days ago

do better

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londonjack - 2 months 4 days ago

right on about the not getting up to change game discs, i dread that moment.

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NelosAngelos - 2 months 4 days ago

High quality stuff there. If only I had a bionic arm...*sigh*

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SpikeDelight - 2 months 4 days 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

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bull06 - 2 months 4 days ago

woo no need for chairs with a bionic arm

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ALF - 2 months 4 days ago

The things I could do with that arm.....

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GamesRadar_MattCundy - 2 months 4 days 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.

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