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$42,000 Prosthetic Hand Outperformed By $50 3D Printed Hand

Posted by timothy on from the chop-off-your-hand-to-check dept.

An anonymous reader writes "A man named Jose Delgado was so used to using a $42,000 myoelectric prosthetic hand for the last year that he didn't realize that there were other options out there. Although Delgado, born without a left hand, was able to obtain the hand via his insurance, he found that a 3D printed 'Cyborg Beast,' an open source hand which costs just $50 to print, actually was more comfortable and performed better than the device which costs 840 times as much money."

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  1. Re:Sunk Costs by The123king · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Chuck 500 grams of ricin in would do the same job, more effectively, and would probably be easier to get.

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    If you gave me a choice between a printer and a giraffe with explosive diarrhoea, i'll get my ladder and my raincoat