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A software developer, who lost his finger in a motorcycle accident last year, has replaced it with a USB stick.
Jerry Jalava from Hilsinki in Finland (pictured) says the 2GB memory device built into his prosthetic finger has proven to be very handy.
The USB is covered by a nail, which peels back when he needs to transfer photos, movies and programmes.
“It is not attached permanently to my body so when I’m using the USB I just leave my finger inside the slot and pick it up when I’ve finished,” Jalava wrote on his blog, ProtoBlogr.net.
Jalava was inspired when doctors who treated him after his accident, joked he should create a ‘finger drive,’ after he told them his profession.
Jalava is already thinking of ways to upgrade his finger to include wireless technology and more storage.
Beth Haller, Ph.D., is Co-Director of the Global Alliance for Disability in Media and Entertainment (www.gadim.org). A former print journalist, she is a member of the Advisory Board for the National Center on Disability and Journalism (https://ncdj.org/). Haller is Professor Emerita in the Department of Mass Communication at Towson University in Maryland, USA. Haller is co-editor of the 2020 "Routledge Companion to Disability and Media" (with Gerard Goggin of University of Sydney & Katie Ellis of Curtin University, Australia). She is author of "Representing Disability in an Ableist World: Essays on Mass Media" (Advocado Press, 2010) and the author/editor of Byline of Hope: Collected Newspaper and Magazine Writing of Helen Keller (Advocado Press, 2015). She has been researching disability representation in mass media for 30+ years. She is adjunct faculty in the Disability Studies programs at the City University of New York (CUNY) and the University of Texas-Arlington.
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