The product that ships first
A prosthetic hand costs more than a car and takes months to obtain. Nobody should have to buy one to find out whether this control model suits them. The Deterica Kit is the control of that hand without the hand itself: a desktop kit with a lever, and an app that draws the hand the lever moves.
The two halves do not arrive together. The app is built, and it needs no hardware: it runs on a phone alone, and a person can learn the control model on the screen. The kit is in development. It will connect to the same app, and then a lever on the desk moves the hand on the screen.
A control method either suits a person or it does not, and no description settles that. The kit exists so a person finds out first. The lever gives the movement a socket gives, the app draws the hand that follows it, and no prosthesis is involved at all.
A prosthetic hand is a commitment of money and of months. So the order here is deliberate: try the control, and then decide. The app stays free, and it needs no kit. Nothing on this page is advice on the choice of a prosthesis. Speak to a prosthetist.
The kit
The lever stands in for the residual limb. The kit reads the lever, applies the same calibration, and runs the same control logic a hand would run. It works with no phone: the buttons, the light, and the calibration all work alone.
The app
The app shows a virtual hand that follows the lever with no visible delay. It runs with no kit at all: a lever and two buttons on the screen drive the same control logic, so anybody can try the model before a kit exists.
The app
The kit and the app run the same control logic, and a recorded trace holds them to it: the app replays every tick the kit recorded and compares every output field. A behaviour that drifts in one place turns a test red.
The app, running on an iPhone
Get the app
The app is built and it works. It is not in the App Store yet. Write to us, and we will tell you the day it lands there.
Video
The kit carries the control of a hand that exists. These are recordings of that hand.
Get it
The control works and the electronics work. What remains is the mechanical part, and it is what decides the date. The hand behind it needs more than that again.
Get the kit
The control and the electronics work. The mechanical part is what remains, and it decides the date. Write to us, and we will tell you when the kit goes on sale.
