Prosthetic Tentacle

Prosthetic Tentacle

Kaylene Kau created a really cool Prosthetic Tentacle as part of a project to explore new approaches to upper-limb prosthetic design at the Industrial Design Department at the University of Washington.

Through extensive research I found that the prosthetic functioned as an assistant to the dominant functioning hand. The prosthetic needed to be both flexible and adjustable in order to accommodate a variety of different grips.

photo via Kaylene Kau

Scott Beale
Scott Beale

Scott Beale founded Laughing Squid in 1995 in San Francisco and is currently based in New York City. When not running the blog, Scott can be found posting on Bluesky and sharing photos on Instagram.