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Open-Source Prosthetics

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the a-hand-up dept.

D H NG writes "Wired News has a story about the non-profit Open Prosthetics Project. The organization was founded last year by Jonathan Kuniholm, a graduate student in biomedical engineering at Duke University who lost his arm below the elbow in Iraq. Open Prosthetics Project applies the ethical and intellectual property foundation of open-source software to the task of building better artificial limbs. So far, the project has produced a 'handful' of useful homebrew prosthetic hacks, and is closing in on a solution that would dramatically improve the functionality of the common hook device."

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  1. don't build them... by TheSHAD0W · · Score: 2, Informative

    Grow them. (Just published on Wired's site.)