Man Gets Prosthetic Hand Made With Cheap Hardware Store Parts for Less Than
  $100 
From: Yahoo! News - 08/05/2014

For those who have lost appendages like fingers or an entire limb, an
artificial prosthesis to replace the missing body part can come at a steep
price - up to tens of thousands of dollars.

Or, if you're like US Navy vet Howard Kamarata and his friend, engineer Casey
Barrett, you can make one yourself for less than 100 bucks with items found
at any Home Depot.

Read the entire article and view a video (1:20) at:
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/oddnews/man-gets-prosthetic-hand-made-with-cheap-hardware-store-parts-for-less-than--100-193918428.html

Links:
More affordable prostherics for veterans
http://www.myfoxphoenix.com/clip/10316644/more-affordable-prosthetics-for-veterans

RecFX Foundation
http://www.recfx.org

The Hands-Up Prosthetic Project
http://www.recfx.org/#!Hands-up-prosthesis-project/cboe

Submitted by John W. Richardson