Open-Source Thinking Revolutionizes Prosthetic Limbs
With Open-Source Arms
From: Scientific American Magazine - October 2008
By: Sam Boykin

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. 

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. 

Read the entire article at:
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=open-source-thinking

Links:
Open Prosthetics Project
http://www.openprosthetics.org/

Open Prosthetic Project's Wiki
http://openprosthetics.wikispot.org/Front_Page

Jonathan Kuniholm, Injured Iraq Vet, Using Technology that Helped Him
   Recover, Aims to Help Others 
http://www.microsoft.com/enable/news/vet.aspx

Jonathan Kuniholm - A New World of Prosthetics
http://abilitymagazine.com/past/sallyF/jonkuni.html

Tackle Design Inc.
http://www.tackledesign.com