I-LIMB Hand
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The i-LIMB Hand is the brand name of world's first commercially available bionic hand invented by David Gow and his team at the Bioengineering Centre of the Princess Margaret Rose Hospital in Edinburgh, and manufactured by Touch Bionics. The articulating prosthetic hand has individually powered digits and thumb and has a choice of grips. The i-Limb Hand offers full hand solutions in addition to partial hand solutions. It was launched in Vancouver in July 2007.[citation needed] i-LIMB Hand won the Limbless Association's Prosthetic Product Innovation Award for 2008,[1] was listed at number fourteen in the TIME's list of the Top 50 Best Inventions of 2008,[2] and Touch EMAS/Touch Bionics was awarded The Queen's Award for Enterprise: Innovation (Technology) (2010) for the i-LIMB Hand.[3]