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Man Makes Replacement Limb Out of Legos

posted by martyb on Saturday February 09 2019, @11:35PM   Printer-friendly
from the Mechano-was-better-dept dept.

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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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  • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Sunday February 10 2019, @04:14AM (7 children)

    by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Sunday February 10 2019, @04:14AM (#798997) Journal

    the Andorran said his aim was to show people nothing is impossible and disability cannot stop them.

    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.

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  • (Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Sunday February 10 2019, @05:34AM

    by Ethanol-fueled (2792) on Sunday February 10 2019, @05:34AM (#799028) Homepage

    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)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 10 2019, @10:31AM (#799052)

    Andorran? Like, from Caemlyn [fandom.com] or something?

    • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Sunday February 10 2019, @10:54AM (1 child)

      by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Sunday February 10 2019, @10:54AM (#799056) Journal

      I could be wrong, but I suspect that he is from

      Andorra
      Andorra, officially the Principality of Andorra, also called the Principality of the Valleys of Andorra, is a sovereign landlocked microstate on the Iberian Peninsula, in the eastern Pyrenees, bordered by France in the north and Spain in the south.

      Alternatively, he may be a visitor from outer space, or even the Outer Limits, hoping for some free medical care, here on Earth.

      Another alternative, he may be some super rich American kid trolling Youtube with edited videos - he actually has two good arms and hands, but he's made a business of youtubing.

      You'll have to make up your own mind, but I'll stick with Spanish, or maybe French/Spanish. Oh - I just thought of it!!! Andorra is the last refuge of the Neanderthals! We haven't killed the last of them - yet!

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      • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Sunday February 10 2019, @10:55AM

        by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Sunday February 10 2019, @10:55AM (#799057) Journal

        Oooooops, I didn't close the quote, instead started another quote within the quote. Looks kinda cool, lol!

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 10 2019, @10:34AM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 10 2019, @10:34AM (#799053)

    he wants to help other people get affordable prosthetics

    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)

      by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Sunday February 10 2019, @10:45AM (#799055) Journal

      Citations?

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      • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 10 2019, @11:36AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 10 2019, @11:36AM (#799064)

        I think it's a fairly obscure dig at google turning evil and changing their name to alphabet.