With open-source arms.

• Autores: Sam Boykin
• Localización: Scientific American, ISSN 0036-8733, Vol. 299, Nº. 4, 2008, págs. 90-95
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The article describes the efforts of the company Tackle Design to improve upon existing prostheses for amputees. Focusing on one of the founders of Tackle Designs who subsequently lost an arm in the Iraq War, the author discusses how Jonathan Kuniholm was unimpressed by the prosthetic arms he was offered. Also discussed is Kuniholm's improvement upon the Trautman hook, a prosthesis that was designed in the 1920's. INSETS: THE NEED FOR NEW ARMS;UPDATING A CLASSIC;ARMS AND THE ATHLETE;Many Heads Are Better Than One