Oregon-based mechanical engineer Ian Davis is in the midst of building an extraordinary prosthetic hand. The partial hand—in the videos and pictures below—is stunningly intricate and now ...

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It’s also steampunk (and a little cyberpunk) AF. The videos of Davis’ mechanical hand prosthetic, which come via Gizmodo, are on his eponymous YouTube channel.