Assistive Technology Puts Wounded Veteran Back at the Drawing Board
From: Only4Gurus - 05/31/2006

Jonathan Kuniholm spends his work days using sophisticated technology to
develop detailed engineering designs, including mechanical models for the
manufacture of prosthetic devices. Kuniholm, a PhD candidate in biomechanical
engineering at Duke University, is a partner at Tackle Design Inc., in
Durham, NC, and a driving force in Tackle's Open Prosthetics Project. Tackle
and seven other Open Prosthetics participant organizations create innovative
prosthetic devices and publish their designs online, so that anyone worldwide
can use, customize, or improve on them. 

Adding to Kuniholm's skill and engineering expertise is a painful but
enlightening reality of his own: he uses a prosthesis in place of his right
hand and forearm. He was wounded in an ambush attack on his U.S. Marines
Reserve patrol unit on New Year's Day 2005, near the Euphrates River in Iraq,
that killed one of the Marines on the patrol. Kuniholm's wounds resulted in
the amputation of his right arm below the elbow.  

Read the entire article at:
http://www.only4gurus.com/v3/shownews.asp?resource=1279

Links:
Injured Iraq Vet, Using Technology that Helped Him Recover, Aims to Help Others
http://www.microsoft.com/enable/news/vet.aspx?v=p

Tackle Design
http://www.tackledesign.com/index.php

Open Prosthetics Project
http://openprosthetics.org/

Engineers, Designers Put Heads Together
http://tackledesign.com/library/press_nando.html