Open-Source Thinking Revolutionizes Prosthetic Limbs

• Innovation in arm and hand prostheses has been slow because the market for the devices is small and development costs are high.
• The Open Prosthetics Project (OPP) has applied the “open source” model—long used in developing “community-based” software—to the design of inexpensive prosthetic hands and arms that a small demand can still support. The designs are free for anyone to use.

Complete article at Scientific American:

http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=open-source-thinking