Chloe Holmes lost several fingers after a nasty bout of chicken pox in her infancy. We’re not sure which hand was affected (apparently both, but judging by the pic it’s the left that’s in worse shape). Until the age of 15, she had to make do with dull prosthetic replacements. Thanks to a sizable financial investment, Chloe has a new extra fully functional hand. After spending 38,000 quid on a bionic hand, Chloe can now consider herself a cyborg. In fact, she might want to start calling herself Chloe Ironfist.

Jesting aside, the new hand is a serious piece of engineering. Chloe isn’t the first teenager to get a bionic boost though. Earlier this month another kid from the UK got a bionic hand sponsored y a car company and a robot making firm. For people who like putting two and two together, it might seem noteworthy that teenage amputees are the ones getting nice cyborg upgrades these days. Is it all an effort to publicize something?

The answer is YES! After checking other news sources, turns out the hand Chloe is wearing is from Touch Bionics. This means we’re looking at another variant of the iLimb Pulse, which is a really advanced piece of hardware capable of precise activities/tasks, i.e. writing with a pen.

So for the people reading this, Chloe Holmes is the latest poster girl (she’s quite  a looker too) for Touch Bionics, an advanced prostheses company whoa r eon a publicity blitz.