{"id":13768,"date":"2015-03-19T15:00:34","date_gmt":"2015-03-19T22:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=13768"},"modified":"2017-06-04T12:01:06","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T19:01:06","slug":"3d-printed-iron-man-gauntlet-becomes-a-kids-awesome-bionic-arm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/03\/3d-printed-iron-man-gauntlet-becomes-a-kids-awesome-bionic-arm","title":{"rendered":"3D-printed Iron Man gauntlet becomes a kid\u2019s awesome bionic arm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"byline-container\"><span class=\"by\">by<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/about\/editors\/mariella-moon\/\" data-image=\"http:\/\/www.blogcdn.com\/www.engadget.com\/media\/2013\/08\/engadget-icon03_24x24.jpg\"><strong>Mariella Moon<\/strong><\/a><\/span> \u2014 Endgadget<br \/>\n<br \/> It looks like Iron Man\u2019s arm, but it\u2019s actually a fully-functioning bionic prosthetic for a seven-year-old kid. Electronically wired and capable of moving, it can, for instance, open and close its hand if the user flexes their bicep. The limb was created by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/LimbitlessSolutions\" target=\"_blank\">Limbitless Solutions<\/a>, a non-profit made up of engineering students from the University of Central Florida, using donations and money they saved by sacrificing coffee. They specialize in designing 3D-printed limbs for children, because kids will quickly outgrow more expensive <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2014\/02\/05\/bionic-arm-plus-nerve-implant-equals-touch\/\">bionic limbs<\/a>. Sure, their creations don\u2019t have the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2014\/02\/05\/bionic-arm-plus-nerve-implant-equals-touch\/\">sense of touch<\/a> and can\u2019t be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2014\/12\/18\/double-amputee-mind-controlled-robot-arms\/\">controlled by thoughts<\/a>, but kids will definitely appreciate looking like their favorite robot or superhero.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2015\/03\/13\/3d-printed-iron-man-gauntlet-becomes-a-kids-awesome-bionic-arm\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Mariella Moon \u2014 Endgadget It looks like Iron Man\u2019s arm, but it\u2019s actually a fully-functioning bionic prosthetic for a seven-year-old kid. Electronically wired and capable of moving, it can, for instance, open and close its hand if the user flexes their bicep. The limb was created by Limbitless Solutions, a non-profit made up of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1489],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3d-printing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13768"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64798,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13768\/revisions\/64798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}