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$42,000 Prosthetic Hand Outperformed By $50 3D Printed Hand
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."
>> .... being able to steal the IP that others spent time and money designing, testing and getting approved.
You're an idiot, if not else, to think we are idiots, too.
a) These things have been made since eons (it's on Wikipedia);
b) if you worked and put a lot of money on research and someone bests you with $50, you're a lousy entrepreneur: deal with it;
c) IP doesn't exist; you can't own ideas; in case you legally can, in your backward country, the world is set to correct your and your laws way of thinking;
d) it follows nobody can steal what you don't own, so basically fsck off.
You can lie to everyone saying you need to pay salaries, school for children, clothes, expensive patent registrations or FDA analysis but, in the end, it's not what you want -- it's what people can afford. Upfront, I'd say that should cost 1,000 bucks, tops. If insurance won't accept it to drive a truck, well that's another story. If you're going to charge $10,000 for that, you don't know how to do it and no amount of research will make it less expensive. It's not your expertise and by lobbying to acquire a monopoly you'll be doing everyone a major disservice.
Stick to what you know and do it (well, except if you're a lobbyist).
> Unfortunately people actually ignorant enough to believe that a part is going to magically design itself in a 3D printer.
Yes, it will. This is the main idea bout open source: things appear magically because some good soul did without compensation. We've been already there and that discussion is over: free lunches do exist. The future has arrived... welcome!