The gray hand in the middle, an i-limb ultra, is a top-of-the-line electronic prosthetic that can <a href="index.php?page=&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cnn.com%2F2013%2F02%2F01%2Ftech%2Fbionic-hand-ilimb-prosthetic%2F">cost $100,000</a>. Surrounding it are body-powered devices that were developed and built at low cost by e-NABLE, a global, Web-based social network that connects people who need hands with people who are interested in building them.
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The gray hand in the middle, an i-limb ultra, is a top-of-the-line electronic prosthetic that can cost $100,000. Surrounding it are body-powered devices that were developed and built at low cost by e-NABLE, a global, Web-based social network that connects people who need hands with people who are interested in building them.
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A parent and a child examine a new hand built by a 3-D printer.<a href="index.php?page=&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cdc.gov%2Fncbddd%2Fbirthdefects%2Ful-limbreductiondefects.html" target="_blank" target="_blank"> Four out of every 10,000 children</a> are born with some kind of upper limb abnormality. This hand is for children with a palm and wrist but no fingers. When the child bends his wrist, he makes a fist.
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A parent and a child examine a new hand built by a 3-D printer. Four out of every 10,000 children are born with some kind of upper limb abnormality. This hand is for children with a palm and wrist but no fingers. When the child bends his wrist, he makes a fist.
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<a href="index.php?page=&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.jsonline.com%2Fnews%2Fhealth%2Fonline-community-lends-a-hand-to-build-prosthesis-for-mukwonago-girl-b99205013z1-248250401.html" target="_blank" target="_blank">Shea Stollenwerk, </a>one of the first recipients of the e-NABLE designed hands, collaborated on hand prototypes with a design class at the University of Wisconsin. She has so many hands they made her a "handbag" with which to carry them.
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Shea Stollenwerk, one of the first recipients of the e-NABLE designed hands, collaborated on hand prototypes with a design class at the University of Wisconsin. She has so many hands they made her a "handbag" with which to carry them.
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Shea plays in a swimming pool with another one of her hands. 3-D printed hands are light, cheap and waterproof.
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Shea plays in a swimming pool with another one of her hands. 3-D printed hands are light, cheap and waterproof.
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The Talon hand is a <a href="index.php?page=&url=http%3A%2F%2Fblog.solidoodle.com%2F2014%2F03%2Ffather-and-son-make-prosthetic-device-with-their-solidoodle%2F" target="_blank" target="_blank">popular model designed</a> by a high school French teacher, Peter Binkley, for his son, Peregrine Hawthorne. Both of them are major design and testing contributors to the e-NABLE community.
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The Talon hand is a popular model designed by a high school French teacher, Peter Binkley, for his son, Peregrine Hawthorne. Both of them are major design and testing contributors to the e-NABLE community.
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When <a href="index.php?page=&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dailymail.co.uk%2Fnews%2Farticle-2708756%2FStudents-use-3D-printer-make-350-limb-boy-6-born-without-arm-doctors-say-itll-cost-40-000.html" target="_blank" target="_blank">Alex Pring</a> got his myoelectric arm from an e-NABLE team at the University of Central Florida, the first thing he did was hug his mother.
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When Alex Pring got his myoelectric arm from an e-NABLE team at the University of Central Florida, the first thing he did was hug his mother.
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