One+Prosthetics - 3d printed functional prosthetics
Academic project at nus - division of industrial design (2013)
Regional Finalist for the James Dyson Award 2014
With the use of 3D technology, this project seeks to re-invent the relatively stagnant field of ‘passive cosmetic prostheses’ by increasing the efficiency of the laborious traditional making process, lowering the costs to make it affordable for the masses and adopting natural hand gestures to lock the prosthetic finger in specific positions.
Every year there are 8,000 recorded cases of finger amputees, and the majority of them are from low incomed jobs that require them to operate heavy machineries (e.g. construction, manufacturing, marine sectors). From our research, there was an apparent disconnect between this statistic and the current range of prosthesis avaliable in the market today; that they were clearly way too expensive for such users to afford them.
Team - Nigel Geh & Chow Wai Tung.
US provisional patent.
ILO Reference Number: 13296N-US/PRV
Title: Functional Prosthetic Fingers