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3-D Printed "Iron Man" Prosthetic Hands Now Available For Kids

PC World (drawing on an article from 3DPrint.com) notes that inventor Pat Starace has released his plans for a 3-D printable prosthetic hand designed to appeal both to kids who need it and their parents (who can't all afford the cost of conventional prostheses). The hand "has the familiar gold-and-crimson color scheme favored by Ol' Shellhead, and it's designed with housings for a working gyroscope, magnetometer, accelerometer, and other "cool sensors", as well as a battery housing and room for a low-power Bluetooth chip and charging port." It takes about 48 hours in printing time (and "a lot" of support material), but the result is inexpensive and functional.

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  1. Re:Who has the real ariticle? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Man i hate it when i go to the toilet and take a big fucking greasy nasty SHIT and its this one big log and i go to flush it and its too long to go down endfirst so the toilet pulls down on the middle of the shitlog and it hits the edges of the toilet bowl and the suction keeps on pulling so this big log of SHIT breaks in half and both halves try to go down at the same time and it's such a great big nasty rancid SHIT log that it clogs the FUCKING toilet. dammit. do i really have to keep a plunger next to every toilet?? fuckin shitclogs. god help you if there was toilet paper involved. after while you learn to shit, flush, then wipe then flush. sonofabitch. i cant be the only one here.