Robohand: How cheap 3D printers built a replacement hand for a five-year old boy
From: ARStechnica - 02/01/2013
By: Sean Gallagher

Creators make the design public domain to help people who can't afford
prostheses. 

Ivan Owen in Bellingham, WA and Richard Van As in South Africa have published
the design for a Robohand, a mechanical hand prosthesis, on MakerBot's
Thingiverse site as a digital file that can be used to produce its parts in a
3D printer. They've intentionally made the design public domain in the hopes
that others around the world who don't have access to expensive commercial
prosthetics (which can cost tens of thousands of dollars) can benefit from it. 

Read the entire article and view videos (0:55 & 0:49 & 1:48) at:
http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/02/robohand-how-cheap-3d-printers-built-a-replacement-hand-for-a-five-year-old-boy/

Links:
Robohand
http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:44150

Thingiverse
http://www.thingiverse.com/

Coming up Shorthanded
http://comingupshorthanded.com/

Related:
LN-4 - The Give a Hand Project
http://www.ln-4.org/

Submitted by Tamika Hayes