Proxima Bionics
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| Trading name | Proxima Bionics |
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| Type | Bionic Technology |
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| Founded | 1651 AN |
| Headquarters | Stonewall, Wrighthaven, Ciric Confederacy |
| Key people | Magnus Einarsson |
Proxima Bionics is a prosthetics and bionics development company based and registered in the Ciric Confederacy and is a subsidiary company of the Andromeda Tech Corporation. The company primarily deals in the development and creation of prosthetics and bionic attachments at low costs to individuals in need of amputation. Thus far, the company has proved to be the most popular such company in the confederacy, with some 94% of amputees opting for a prosthetic attachment made by Proxima Bionics. Additionally, the company has recently added items to its inventory designed to be added to people even without disabilities resulting from amputation.
Proxima Bionic's main line of bionic implants is its "Atlas" line, which is bionic versions of arms and legs designed specifically for amputees, although the company has gotten numerous requests from otherwise healthy people for amputation in order to have the Atlas prosthetic attached. The Atlas prosthetics have been credited for their strength and durability, approaching the levels of award-winning athletes in their strength. Atlas arms, in particular, have garnered a significant amount of attention from both amputees and fully healthy people, who are interested in the arm's many features apart from its strength, including its high tactile precision and dexterity, as well as its in-built features, such as a small drone controlled by the arm, a digital watch, a USB port, and a detachable hand that can be replaced with different module including a knife, a blowtorch, and other items required for manual labour.
Proxima Bionics has also generated notoriety from their recent development of bionic eyes, which is led by their "Khristal" brand. The eyes are extremely similar to the biological make-up of real eyes, which allow users of Khristal eyes to perceive the full range of colours and brightness visible to humans. The eyes are also as sensitive to movement commands from the brain, preventing the "lazy eye" caused by some inferior bionic eye designs.
The Khristal brand has also been attached to other bionic implants specifically designed for healthy people, including the Khristal Lens, which is a cybernetic lens designed to replace the biological lens in the eye. The lens is attached to and controlled by a small chip embedded into the user's temple. This chip can be used to cause the lens to engage binocular vision, up to 1.5x zoom. The lens can also produce minor AR effects in the user's vision, which can be programmed via the chip to connect to various devices linked to a wireless connection, such as allowing a user to use an AR control panel to manipulate a computer without a standard keyboard or mouse. These lenses are very expensive at the moment, costing roughly one million Zaikir per lens (the technology works better with two), but Proxima Bionics is currently researching methods to produce these lenses for a lower cost.
