Open Arms From: IEEE Spectrum - 03/2009 - page 36 By: Jonathan Kuniholm What prosthetic-arm engineering is learning from open source, crowdsourcing, and the video-game industry Jonathan Kuniholm is a veteran of the Iraq war, an engineering researcher at Duke University, and an amputee. In this article, he talks about what it will take to keep prosthetics technology advancing long after the government funding has stopped. "I was on the ground before I was even aware of the sound of an explosion. The blast from the improvised explosive device - explosives and scrap metal hidden in an olive oil can - broke my M4 carbine in two and nearly severed my right arm. Before the Blackhawk helicopter took me away, I remember telling the executive officer, 'I guess my guitar-playing days are over.'" Read the entire article at: http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/mar09/7908 Links: Myoelectric arms http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/mar09/7908/iBot Open Prosthetics Project http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/mar09/7908/open