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After losing his arm to a rare generic condition Adrian Aguilar made a replacement limb out of lego. His first attempt at making an artificial arm was at nine years old, making a number of limbs Iron Man style over the years. His goal is to help others make prosthetic limbs cheaply.
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Life is to you a dashing and bold adventure.
(Score: 2) by TrentDavey on Sunday February 10 2019, @12:30AM (2 children)
Shouldn't your byline read:
"from the Mechanos-were-better-dept dept." ?
(Score: 2) by hendrikboom on Sunday February 10 2019, @03:35AM (1 child)
The name was Meccano.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 10 2019, @10:03AM
Sue me; story was submitted on a mobile device via a lazy operator :P
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 10 2019, @12:50AM (1 child)
People always ask me about Legos, It's fantastic. Let me tell you about Legos. I do very well with Legos. I love Legos. No one loves Legos more than me, BELIEVE ME. Legos loves me. We're going to have so many Legos you are going to get sick of Legos. The Legos just got 10 feet higher. I have the best Legos.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 10 2019, @10:06AM
Sigh. Mr FakeDonaldTrump, you forgot to log on.
(Score: 2) by EETech1 on Sunday February 10 2019, @01:20AM (1 child)
Come on! Hasn't anyone here read the back page of the book!
They are Lego bricks, or Lego blocks.
NOT LEGOS!
https://www.lego.com/en-us/legal/legal-notice/fair-play [lego.com]
(Score: 1) by pTamok on Tuesday February 12 2019, @10:42AM
That ship has sailed [soylentnews.org].
- But thank-you for the official reference.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Sunday February 10 2019, @04:14AM (7 children)
We all have "disabilities". Far too many people use their own "disabilities" to just give up, to take the easy route. Overcoming your limitations is always admirable.
Even more admirable, is the fact that he wants to help other people get affordable prosthetics.
I'm going to buy my defensive radar from Temu, just like Venezuela!
(Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Sunday February 10 2019, @05:34AM
Hell yeah, and the best example of this is Black Sabbath's Tony Iommi. He cut 2 fingertips off the fingers on his right hand cutting sheet metal on his last fucking day of work. So what does the motherfucker do? Improvises prosthetic fingertips and then learns how to play guitar left-handed, and becomes the godfather of metal guitarists in the process.
A fad nowadays is to use 3-D printing to generate prosthetics. You can have a Red and yellow colored Robocop hand with strings as tendons to tighten the grip.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 10 2019, @10:31AM (2 children)
Andorran? Like, from Caemlyn [fandom.com] or something?
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Sunday February 10 2019, @10:54AM (1 child)
I could be wrong, but I suspect that he is from
I'm going to buy my defensive radar from Temu, just like Venezuela!
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Sunday February 10 2019, @10:55AM
Oooooops, I didn't close the quote, instead started another quote within the quote. Looks kinda cool, lol!
I'm going to buy my defensive radar from Temu, just like Venezuela!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 10 2019, @10:34AM (2 children)
Which worked really well, he even had a motto "help others for cheap" until he became the biggest and brightest and best in the world dominating all others in the prosthetics spaces, so then he split his company in two naming one "Numbers" and keeping the original name for the other, and worked hard at being truly evil.
It's the same old story, time and again, with different names and different faces. When will it end?
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Sunday February 10 2019, @10:45AM (1 child)
Citations?
I'm going to buy my defensive radar from Temu, just like Venezuela!
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 10 2019, @11:36AM
I think it's a fairly obscure dig at google turning evil and changing their name to alphabet.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by pTamok on Sunday February 10 2019, @12:24PM (1 child)
I think most Europeans would regard saying 'LEGOs' as a bit odd, as LEGO is a brand-name, but it could well be that they are lagging the language development seen in the USA.
After all, nobody says Kleenex-brand tissues any more. First it becomes 'Kleenex tissues', then 'a Kleenex', then finally a mother says to a child 'Let me Kleenex your nose for you;, and wahla*, a new verb. The same has happened with car brands, although I don't know of any that have become verbs - you don't tesla downtown. Google has become a verb, even in Europe. Given time, LEGO may well become a verb too.
*Yes, I know it was originally French: Voilà [wiktionary.org], but many, many people use anglicised spellings and don't even know the origin. It has become english.
(Score: 2) by kazzie on Monday February 11 2019, @07:05AM
LEGO my Eggo!