September 25, 2014 by MassDevice
e-NABLE, an online group of 1,500 volunteers, uses 3D printing to build prosthetics for patients in need.
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – An online organization of more than 1,500 volunteers is using 3D printers to produce prosthetic hands or fingers for people around the world who need them.
This Sunday, the group, called e-NABLE, will come together at the Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore to further their goals of designing, printing and distributing their inexpensive plastic prostheses, in advance of an upcoming U.S. Food and Drug Administration public forum on 3D printing of medical devices.
e-NABLE founder Jon Schull, a research scientist at New York’s Rochester Institute of Technology’s Center for MAGIC (Media, Arts, Games, Innovation and Creativity), said the group’s prostheses are made of tough plastics and cost little to make or repair.
Now think of articles about 3d printed firearms…Ughhhh