3D-Printed "Magic Arms"

Two-year-old Emma wanted to play with blocks, but a condition called arthrogryposis meant she couldn't move her arms. So researchers at a Delaware hospital 3D printed a durable custom exoskeleton with the tiny, lightweight parts she needed.

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[infinityseed]

What's wrong with all you people? This is a wonderful story about using technology to do some good for somebody and you people have to bring hate into it!?!?!? All of you get off the Internet and go do something for your fellow human beings. Get a life! Help someone out. Give a reason for your existence. Justify your use of planetary resources.

[Summer Said So]

I'm trying to figure out WHO THE F would dislike this video???

[super1super2]

Confused on how this even works

[noobenstein]

Medicine is the best use of 3D printing.

[huyked]

A beautiful account. The ending me made me tear up.

[W Brown]

Well said!

Yeah, technology can be used to cause harm... but it can also be used to help give people opportunities to live a better life. And i don't know about you but i would consider being able to use technology to give this child a chance to even give her mother a hug is worth more than money.

I feel incredibly fortunate to be living in this era of human history.

[Jeroen Green]

I am a patient with mutiple skeleton diseases, my future could depend on this inventions. Why this wasn't in our main dutch news and the 3d gun was i dont know.

I do not get why probably healthy people post offensive / inhumane comments or involve religions. Besides Sir W. Sample MUST be blessed by a higher force for his unbelievable patience and precision. What i do understand is why people post with fake accounts. Cause i would hunt them down, after they made me a suite. moreofme@live.nl

[Krytinim]

I don't mind people believing what they want, it's their right, but if they deny fact and evidence and try and pollute other peoples minds with their garbage they can go fuck themselves with a cactus.

[joseaca]

please dont let this retard be an image of how all we religious people are, i believe in god, but im also an engineer, a practitioner of science, and there are very few things that warm my heart like seeing human knowledge being used for the betterment of the lives of those most unfortunate and mankind as a whole

[Windy2468]

what does that have anything to do with this...

[Windy2468]

it's not the age. trust me, I remember being a compassionate 11 year old.

let's just refer to those dislikers as lame-ass idiots.

[zamaz99]

Right. Plus, why would an omnipotent deity inflict suffering on children in the first place? Religion is such bullshit -- all of it.