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4-Year-Old Harmony Taylor Gets A New 'Robohand' After Students Build Her A 3D-Printed Prosthetic

Philip Ross | International Business Times | December 22, 2013

Most of us get socks and sweaters for Christmas, but 4-year-old Harmony Taylor of Cedar Springs, Mich., is getting something much more extraordinary. The preschool student got a new prosthetic hand for the holiday. Read More »

12-Year-Old Creates $350 Braille Printer With Lego And Open Source Software

Lee Matthews | Geek | February 18, 2014

For those of you who thought baking soda volcanoes made for a pretty sweet science fair project, 12-year-old Shubham Bannerjee’s entry will absolutely blow you away. It’s an actual working braille printer that was built with about $350 worth of Lego that runs on open source software. Read More »

3D Printing Helps Amputees

Staff Writer | ITWeb | January 10, 2014

Not Impossible, a California-based media and technology company, has embarked on a project to use 3D printing to provide hands and arms for amputees in South Sudan and the war-torn Nuba Mountains. Read More »

A 3D printed Hand Brings The Crowd To Their Feet

Peregrine Hawthorn | OpenSource.com | March 18, 2014

Earlier this year, I shared my story about open source designs and my 3D printed prosthetic hand to a room of 4,600+ at Intel’s Annual International Sales Conference in Las Vegas. I joined Jon Schull on stage, the founder of e-NABLE, an online group dedicated to open source 3D printable assistive devices.

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A Bionic, Mind-Controlled Arm, From The Inventor Of The Segway

Olga Khazan | The Atlantic | May 12, 2014

The FDA just approved a prosthetic arm that amputees can control with their brains...

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A Whole New Dimension As Manufacturing Goes 3D

John Hearne | Irish Examiner | January 11, 2014

If you want to get some idea of the hype surrounding 3D printing, check out what the stockmarket thinks. When Voxeljet, a German manufacturer of 3D, printers staged their initial public offering last month, its shares instantly doubled. [...] Read More »

App Lets Amputees Program Their Own Bionic Hands

Kathy Matheson | San Francisco Chronicle | May 3, 2013

Double-amputee Jason Koger used to fly hundreds of miles to visit a clinician when he wanted to adjust the grips on his bionic hands. Now, he's got an app. Read More »

Blue Cross to Present the Faces of Fearless Healthcare Innovation Award with Not Impossible Labs

Press Release | Blue Cross Blue Shield Association, Not Impossible Labs | August 29, 2017

The Blue Cross Blue Shield Association (BCBSA) will present the Faces of Fearless Healthcare Innovation Award as part of the 2018 Not Impossible Awards show at CES® 2018 in Las Vegas. The Faces of Fearless Healthcare Innovation Award is included in the Not Impossible Awards show and recognizes technological innovation that advances health and wellness. The award exemplifies the values of the Blue Cross Blue Shield (BCBS) Faces of Fearless℠ campaign, which celebrates the stories of people who are overcoming challenges to live their healthiest lives.

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CES 2014: How 3D Printing's Changing Lives In S Sudan

Arthur Goldstuck | Mail & Guardian | January 9, 2014

Not Impossible, the company using 3D printers to provide hands and arms for amputees in South Sudan, has stunned CES with a life-changing initiative. Read More »

DSS, Inc. Unveils New Acquisition Purchasing Agent Tool to Benefit Veteran Care

Press Release | DSS, Inc. | June 19, 2012

Module Simplifies Procurement of Prosthetics with Automated Workflow to Better Manage Reporting Processes, Streamline Ordering and Reduce Associated Costs with Fewer Errors Read More »

How A 3D printer Gave A Teenage Bomb Victim A New Arm – And A Reason To Live

Emma Bryce | Guardian | January 19, 2014

When Mick Ebeling read about a boy in South Sudan who had lost his arms, he set off with a 3D printer to make him a prosthetic limb. Now the project is bringing hope to the country's other 50,000-plus amputees Read More »

How a TIME Article Led To The Invention Of A $100 3D-Printed Artificial Limb

Harry McCracken | TIME | January 7, 2014

That’s the bleak conclusion to a bleak TIME story by Alex Perry from April 2012. It concerns Daniel Omar, a Sudanese 14-year-old who had his hands blown off by a bomb dropped by the Sudanese government in an attack on rebel forces. [...] Remarkably, though, the story went on to become much, much happier — and yes, it’s one that makes sense to be told here in TIME.com’s tech section. Read More »

How Project Daniel Is Crafting Prosthetic Limbs With 3D Printers

Danielle Restuccia | VOXXI | April 7, 2014

Project Daniel is a rare beacon of light in the otherwise war-torn area of South Sudan: researchers recently pioneered 3D printing as a means of building prosthetic arms for child amputees.  According to the official press release, Project Daniel—which is funded by Not Impossible, LLC—opened the “world’s first 3D-printing prosthetic lab and training facility” in the Nuba Mountain region of Sudan.

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Mick Ebeling Turns Tragedies Into Technological Breakthroughs

Guy Dixon | The Globe and Mail | June 19, 2014

The act involved great humanism, a 3-D printer and that contemporary need to film it all.  It’s the curious way humanitarianism (and the money to back it) works in modern times. It started when Mick Ebeling read a news article about Daniel Omar, then a 14-year-old Sudanese boy who had lost an arm to a bomb attack.

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Mick Ebeling, Founder Of Not Impossible Labs, Shares His Story Of “Project Daniel” Using 3D Printers & Ultrabooks™ To Make Prosthetic Arms For Children Of South Sudan

Press Release | Not Impossible Labs | January 7, 2014

Not Impossible, LLC, a California media and technology company, is using 3D printers connected to Ultrabooks™ to provide hands and arms for amputees in South Sudan and the war-torn Nuba Mountains. In November, Not Impossible printed a prosthetic hand that allowed a teenager to feed himself for the first time in two years. Read More »