$42,000 Prosthetic Hand Outperformed By $50 3D Printed Hand
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ThatTruth777
Superstar
The design is open source and under a public domain and non commercial license. All of the designers in the e-NABLE group (almost 700 people globally) have given away their intellectual property to the World for free.
This means that you can download the files, find one of our volunteers near you with a 3d printer and who can modify the size and shape for you to fit your specific hand and get your device printed or you can invest $400-$3000 into your very own printer and print your files at home - for the rest of your life and any time a part breaks - you just print a new one.
There are people that are selling these - but why would you pay a few thousand dollars to have one printed when you could get yourself your own 3d printer for the same cost and make them yourself?
It takes about 6 hours to print a full hand - and about 2-3 hours to assemble it. If a finger breaks - you print a new one for about $1 in plastic and replace it.
some nice info I found in the youtube comments
nineteeneightysix
Banned
As soon as we reach the point of the "Replicator" as in Star Trek, I think our world will change for the better, if a humanist scientist discovers it and makes the technology available to all with no intention to make a profit...
The idea of "I have to make a financial profit" is holding us back for years...
The idea of "I have to make a financial profit" is holding us back for years...
They EU is already working on one. (How to Regulate 3D Printed Medical Devices? - 3D Printing Industry
The FDA will have a law too. These types of advancements can't be regulated, so the FDA will pull the plug. Mark my words
Field Marshall Bradley
Veteran
but how do you
MaccabeanRebel
All Star
Makes me happy to know that in hundreds of years from now kids will be 3d printing iron man suites on that tony stark steez...but saddens me that I won't be around to do it 
nineteeneightysix
Banned
You don't need a profit to eat...You can break even...but how do you
With all the resources on this planet, we could all have enough...We could all have free complete healthcare and free lifetime education...And the world would develop at a much faster pace, because more people will have access to more resources...
I have not really studied economics, so I really don't have knowledge on how the economy works...My knowledge comes from studying the human body and how resources are distributed throughout a healthy body...From this, I believe that we could have a similar system were we all produce (those of us we can) and distribute the resources as needed...
But our society has not evolved to level yet, and I accept the world as it is...