An Affordable 3D-Printed Arm
Students at UCF are designing an inexpensive 3D printed arm for kids. To find out more and to get involved, check out: http://office.tumblr.com Big thanks to Microsoft and the Collective Project...
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- I'm actually gonna use my arm so I can high-five so many people, 106.- You're gonna high-five 106 people?- Yeah.- Aren't you gonna get tired?- No, because my robo-arm's going to do all the work.- Alex was born without a fully formed arm. A condition that affects around 1,500 babiesborn in the U.S. every year. I'm here to see him get fitted with a new arm. We have comea long way in the development of prosthetic limbs. You might think of the earliest prostheticas maybe a peg-leg for a sailor, but it actually dates back much further than that. In fact,over 3,000 years ago to Ancient Egypt. The thought was that our lives have a finite length,but that the after-life is eternal. And according to the theology of Osiris, the body n...
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- I'm actually gonna use my arm so I can high-five so many people, 106.- You're gonna high-five 106 people?- Yeah.- Aren't you gonna get tired?- No, because my robo-arm's going to do all the work.- Alex was born without a fully formed arm. A condition that affects around 1,500 babiesborn in the U.S. every year. I'm here to see him get fitted with a new arm. We have comea long way in the development of prosthetic limbs. You might think of the earliest prostheticas maybe a peg-leg for a sailor, but it actually dates back much further than that. In fact,over 3,000 years ago to Ancient Egypt. The thought was that our lives have a finite length,but that the after-life is eternal. And according to the theology of Osiris, the body n...
