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Schull>> You know I like to say that that there are three essential ingredients here.
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One is the 3D printer right now. Another is internet technology.
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The other is good will. You put these three together
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and you really got a very powerful solution.
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[Yeah! Alright!]
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Assistant>> Thank you sir.
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Myers>> So... we're e-NABLE.
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That's the name of our group.
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This is a 3D printer. This is a Makerbot.
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They can print out just about anything.They're kinda like a tube
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of toothpaste. They layer on top
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of each other, and make a three dimensional image.
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These things can be printed out for
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less than fifty dollars when a prosthetic usually cost about forty
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thousand dollars, so...
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and all the plans are available online. Open access.
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Anybody that can get access to a three-dimensional printer, can have a hand.
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Schull>> From the measurements we can choose
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the style of the hand, the model. This is the famous
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"Cyborg Beast" with the the day-old
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experimental, RIT arm design.
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And once you choose the features that you want
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it goes off to the printer... and about three hours later it comes out of the
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printer.
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And then there's a couple of hours of assembly, but we're working on easy assemble positions.
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And the next thing you know you've changed a life.
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But in truth she does not even have to come here. We have an online community
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We can take pictures through the mail. We can generate the hands. We can model them.
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We can print them in her neighborhood. She can take the models and go to a
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public library, or go to
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Staples... or go to a school 3d printer...
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or ask one of our 500 volunteers
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to run it off. To print it. Then she can try it.
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She can send us some video from a smartphone of what pinches and what needs
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adjusting.
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We will go through the process again. This is only five dollars worth of materials.
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So what's the big deal?