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This is pretty awesome. And sure, right now it's limited to high end tech at the bleeding edge of medicine, but I fully hope this will inspire the current gen owners of glowforges, makerbots, xcarves, and all of their off-brand alternatives to begin making over-engineered, novel, and interesting finger splints or Band-Aids or other diy-friendly med tech.

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I have a friend whose son was born with a partial hand. They were able to use 3D printing to make a prosthetic that was cheap enough they could make new ones as he grew. IIRC, they could do themes such as iron man for the prosthetic.

That’s super cool

that is awesome!

Do they have photos, video or info to share? Would be really interesting to see it working, sounds awesome.

I found out because they shared on Facebook. I would normally not share it, but apparently his experience was shared on the news. https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/news/stories/3d_griffin.html

I love it! In some ways these printers are only begining to exit the novelty phase (I mean the consumer versions) and already there's a minor explosion in exiting uses for them. An exciting time!

Worth noting then that many already have been inspired :)

http://www.openhandproject.org https://3dprint.nih.gov/collections/prosthetics

Related: https://opensourceleg.com

There's a common issue with slipped discs and terrible long term pain. If the day comes when we can print and install new vertebrae easily, I'm signing up. I imagine in this world of phone and PC usage, there'll be many customers in the years to come.

Me too. I suffer from degenerative discs, bone spurs and arthritis in all of my cervical and thoracic vertebrae. I'm in constant pain and if there was a realistic spinal replacement procedure, I would seriously consider it.

I don't know what caused my problems, but arthritis and bonr spurs definitely run in my family and 3 decades of poor posture haven't helped and ive had too numerous bicycle falls and car crashes over the years to even count (I was in a car accident just last week! Not my fault).

I'm holding out for full-body prosthesis, but until then you might like to look into the likely next best option for your current body: https://startingstrength.com/article/back-pain-and-back-stre...

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