Open-Source Thinking Revolutionizes Prosthetic Limbs

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Sep 20, 2008 12:44 AM EDT
Scientific American; By Sam Boykin
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The Open Prosthetics Project (OPP) has applied the"open source" model-long used in developing "community-based" software to the design of inexpensive prosthetic hands and arms that a small demand can still support. The designs are free for anyone to use. A community of engineers, designers and innovators is collaborating online to make better prosthetic hands and arms for amputees. One of the lead engineers lost his own arm in Iraq.

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