Tom Catena

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Alone And Forgotten, One American Doctor Saves Lives In Sudan’s Nuba Mountains

Alex Perry | TIME | April 25, 2012

[...] There’s generally little truth to those stories of Africa — a continent of more than 50 countries and a billion people — which contrive to lionize Westerners. But in the case of Daniel and hundreds of others, the only reason they are alive to tell their stories is because of the attentions of a single American surgeon, Dr. Tom Catena, who has lived in the Nuba Mountains since 2008. Read More »

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 »

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 »

Project Daniel and the World’s First 3D-Printing Prosthetics Lab

Last week, the 2014 International CES conference in Las Vegas unveiled a startling new project that has the health technology world buzzing with excitement. [...] Equipped with 3D printers and Ultrabooks, [Not Impossible LLC] has been supplying prosthetic arms and hands for amputees in the Nuba Mountains, a war-ridden area within South Sudan. Read More »