{"id":174307,"date":"2023-10-16T18:28:53","date_gmt":"2023-10-16T23:28:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/this-award-winning-3d-printable-prosthetic-is-open-access"},"modified":"2023-10-16T18:28:53","modified_gmt":"2023-10-16T23:28:53","slug":"this-award-winning-3d-printable-prosthetic-is-open-access","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/this-award-winning-3d-printable-prosthetic-is-open-access","title":{"rendered":"This award-winning 3D printable prosthetic is open access"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/this-award-winning-3d-printable-prosthetic-is-open-access2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In today\u2019s world, there is much to be admired in someone who refuses to make a profit out of a good idea for the greater good. David Edquilang invented a new type of finger prosthesis called Lunet that has earned him awards around the world but he plans on making the design open access to benefit those who need it most.<\/p>\n<p><b>Helping the greatest number of people<\/b><\/p>\n<p>\u201cNot every good idea needs to be turned into a business. Sometimes, the best ideas just need to be put out there,\u201d said Edquilang in <a href=\"https:\/\/uh.edu\/news-events\/stories\/2023\/october-2023\/10132023-recent-uh-graduate-develops-3d-printable-prostheses-restore-amputees-finger-mobility.php\" title=\"a statement\" rel=\"dofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">a statement<\/a> issued by his university. \u201cMedical insurance will often not cover the cost of a finger prosthesis, since it is not considered vital enough compared to an arm or leg. Making Lunet available online for free will allow it to help the greatest number of people.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In today\u2019s world, there is much to be admired in someone who refuses to make a profit out of a good idea for the greater good. David Edquilang invented a new type of finger prosthesis called Lunet that has earned him awards around the world but he plans on making the design open access to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,43,1499,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-174307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-business","category-cyborgs","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174307","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\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174307\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}