The Sore Problem of Prosthetic Limbs
From: Medical Design Technology - 04/10/2014
By: TED

What drove David Sengeh to create a more comfortable prosthetic limb? He grew
up in Sierra Leone, and too many of the people he loves are missing limbs
after the brutal civil war there. When he noticed that people who had
prosthetics weren’t actually wearing them, the TED Fellow set out to discover
why - and to solve the problem with his team from the MIT Media Lab.

Watch the video (4:43) at:
http://www.mdtmag.com/videos/2014/04/sore-problem-prosthetic-limbs

Link:
David Sengeh
http://www.media.mit.edu/people/dsengeh

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