The $28 Prosthetic Limb

The man from Jaipur had clearly done this before. With a small crowd of people watching, he buckled on his artificial foot for the video camera and climbed a nearby tree with great agility for someone missing his left foot. He then leapt from the tree over a fence and sprinted down a nearby street and back again. His friends say he can run a kilometer in just over four and a half minutes. Not content with his efforts yet, the man returns, sprang onto his bicycle and rode away down the road with the camera following him off into the distance.

Thanks to a 28 dollar prosthetic limb, which TIME magazine described as one of the best 50 inventions of 2009, the young man from Jaipur who lost his foot in a landmine explosion has returned to normal life through the research and innovation of two local Indian inventors. A comparable artificial limb in the West would cost about 20,000-30,000 dollars.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• science
• technology
• innovation
• japiur
• india
• best
• inventions
• of
• 2009
• world
• bank
• prosthetic
• limb

[talibkhan2012]

Very Brave And surprising man