Open Bionics Is Creating Affordable And Stylish 3D Printed Protheses 

Love 3D printers. Not only are they able to make prosthetics but soon fully automatic weapons and explosives. Technology gives and takes away.

@krosny Easily affordable 3D printers will NOT be making "fully automatic weapons" any time soon, and they will likely 'never' be able to make explosives. 3D printers additively apply 'existing' materials to a structure. Explosives require the mixing of different chemicals to create new compounds, a completely different process than 3D printers. One can create explosives on their own with (dangerous) garage chemistry, and we've been able to do that for a very long time, but we won't be seeing any major improvements in the common man's ability to do it due to these new advances. Fully automatic weapons on the other hand 'could' be made in theory by MUCH more advanced 3D printers, but for several decades yet, such printers will be WAY beyond the level of affordability for the average Joe. They would require printing using very high quality steel to extreme exacting measure. Current affordable printers print using a low quality plastic, they are pretty close to toys for most applications.

Peter Cohen "In recent months, we've seen metal laser sintering technology produce 3D-printed guns that can fire thousands of rounds and are practically indistinguishable from manufactured guns. We've seen durable rifles that are entirely 3D-printed. Heck, we've even seen custom bullets that are specifically designed to work with 3D-printed guns. The inventor hopes to use them to produce semiautomatic and even fully automatic 3D-printed guns." --Gizmodo 01/06/15 Notice this article was written in 2015. Doesn't sound like it will take decades. As to explosives, Muslims have used simple pressure cooker, pipe and nail bombs to commit murder all over the world. And that is without the aid of 3D printers. There is no limit to what 3D printers will be able to do explosive-wise sooner rather than later.

Honestly it warmed my heart till "royalty free" came up and thats when the tears came lol. ANY kid would kill for an Iron Man hand/arm as more of a "Power" behind the loss. To see theyre not going "OK, we like the idea.....for $1,000. unit." REALLY took me. Bravo OB, bravo Disney

It takes a lot of time, money, and work to make a 3D printed gun. You need a certain kind of 3D printer of which prints metal, but it’s extremely expensive and it’s slow. It’s faster to just cast a firearm and assemble it than to 3D print it. 3D printing is slow, and I know it because I myself own a 3D printer.

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Every single company needs profit. Profit is the reason that sparks innovation. She's trying to sell it to the masses by making it affordable not non-profitable.

Matthew Van Loon He didn't say they wouldnt get any profit, he just said they cut the product price to help the customer

TheTeddyChannel They never cut price, they're using lower tier materials to make existing technology more accessible to the poor and middle class. You cannot expect high end (new) technology to be immediately affordable for the mass market. Also, he was talking about "infinite profit". probably not knowing how businesses work. You cannot start a business and ask for a high price, because nobody will (be able to) buy your products, thus you end up being bankrupt.

Matthew Van Loon they cut the price by using lower tier materials.

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I got a saw, need it?

I actually want to cut off my arm to get one of these xD

The funny thing is, artificial limbs will eventually be more powerful and useful than biological limbs. People will be paying for augmentation. There would also be attachments for different scenarios. Want to rock climb? Here's climbing pick hands. Want to perform a surgery with steady hands? That would also probably be a thing.

Won't be long before it will be legs, no reason why this type of tech couldn't be used to make an enhancement suit using 3d printed parts. Exo suit. Then the money made from people just wanting these things willing to pay, that money could go into the NHS to help pay towards to the cost for those who need them. The more people have them the more advances are made.

EdgeBlade KnifeSword That's so true, I hope it to be prohibited, and companies to be conscious about it, and just leave it as it is, a replacement for biological limbs for people that need it, no mods, no gadgets, etc. Instead of that, invest the money to improve it and make it more real.

dont they already do that for donation?

aimesry hisery not alone .😀

Too bad we put most of our tax money on technology to kill....

Michael Priest not really : amputees are a minority. As for me, I've been interested in cybernetic limbs for years and it's the first I'm hearing of it. And I'm already a Disney fanboy. I think the market is simply too small and someone at Disney felt it was good for their karma.

Jean Roch No it's definitely a marketing campaign. It doesn't matter what the size of the amputee market is, other people who don't have missing limbs who see that Disney is doing this will still feel all warm and fuzzy inside, and Disney still benefits from that. But just because Disney's primary motivation is advertising doesn't mean that the people who greenlit this idea don't want to help amputees - in fact, I am sure that they are genuinely happy to help, because why wouldn't they be. The two motivations are not mutually exclusive.

EpicBradley129 I’m sure they do want a good reputation, but I’m also sure there are compassionate people as well at Disney.

People are so gullible. Of course, this is all Disney marketing. The people creating these prosthetics did great, Disney is simply capitalizing on it. This isn't the company of Walt Disney anymore, it is a ruthless multi-billion dollar corporation. If you don't know how ruthless of a company they are, they you don't know the Disney Corporation.

@@stickman1742 Have your read about Walt Disney? The idea that Disney ever something different than a corporation is the mind boggling thing here. Walt Disney could be a right nasty bastard. People however should stop expecting other people to be Buddha before admitting something they did was nice. So what, if they did it for PR? Otherwise they would have the legal right to prevent Disney copyrighted brands to be used here.

Steven Lewis that’s actually a great idea and I hope someone makes that a reality

They already have that ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-F_brnKz_2tI.html

EdgeBlade KnifeSword incredible. Thanks for sharing. But I noticed that it can still be improved. There’s a long way to go before this technology is finished. That was truly amazing

We already have that tech dum dum

Steven Lewis technology is never finished. It's 2018 and we're still making new types of doors.

I think in this case, it would be a donation

Agreed. Maybe pull some strings in that patent office too.

Jack Rollin Deus. Ex. HR.

One more terminator is near

Wicked

people deserve those

I'd rather have one that is literally a Swiss knife but more "handy" hehe gei it because it's my hand... Hehe... Eee yea it's awful

Shewit Gabriel hope they don't create any homunculus

Yeeeeees!

Literally the first thing that came to my mind XD

Shewit Gabriel lol

Remicreeps♥ same

ericbazinga same thing I thought

ericbazinga i never asked for this

I love that they heard D.S.X. and decided that it should, probably, be written as "DsX"... Like SOME effort was put in, just not enough to find out what she actually said.

Louard Yeah. To be honest, "DsX" does sound like a cool name for somwthing

Um, the one that looks like Adam Jensen's arm is EXACTLY like it so I'm pretty sure they're overly familiar with how it's spelled.

Bustin Feelsgood and a USB charger for your phone!

and when we get the touch sensors in them you can feel the USB charger going into it!

Yeah!

Or at least a flesh light.

And a shotgun

It's nothing if you have a good job instead of poor one. People build expensive PC's like it's nothing and guess why? Just for gaming. No proper job to earn from PC, such as 3D animations and making games. Smart person invest hard money on quality that'll improve his/her life for family and self, not for stupidity.

I think some of them sell for only a couple hundred dollars. Not certain about that though, I am not in need of one to be researching it that much. They are super cool though! In love with the idea of being able to design it to look like your favourite characters arm! I would personally go for the Deus Ex one if I needed, or some other bionic character from a video game.

they should do an edward style prostetic/auto-mail

Shewit Gabriel Nah! They should do the cannon prosthetic arm of Guts the Black Swordsman, the most badass character to come out of Japan: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-11hauEzyQC8.html

Shewit Gabriel yesssss

dues ex !!!

Or as the captions said, "DsX" ...

JaundiceJoe lol

im pretty sure a lot of them did tho. :P

They won't. Ever. This benefits them much more reinforcing their brand image. How many limbless children do you think are out there to even remotely made this profitable enough to intrigue a company the size of Disney?

The video mentions they have a royalty-free arrangement with Disney, so...

M A C hooray for Disney :))

you saying Disney, is gonna crack down on a company helping crippled kids get their arms back? look disney can be jerks sure, but this would be killing poppies leve evil, that would be the dumbest thing Disney could ever do, and they would probably end up losing to.

Darth Maal But would have the legal right to do so. If anybody wants to use Disney characters are on their products, then they need to ask first. Let me put it this way... What if somebody wanted to use one of your creations on their products? Good intention OR bad intention if they don't ask, then it's stealing.

Actually demarketizing would be crap. good luck on funding meds' researches, nerve-controlled artificial limbs, eye prosthetics etc. on Kickstarter :) "6 months to gather just 10 000 000$! We can did it!"

Actually she didn't say demarketize

Brock Lesnar I would totally take a handy from her bionic arm.

Kylo Ren: "What girl?"

It's Grace Mandeville. She has a RU-vid channel called Mandeville Sisters. You're welcome.

Who is she?

why not cut both off, and the you head to. wouldn't it be cool with a 3D printed robot head? just giving ideas her. ^^

ScionStorm no he was playing with his 3rd leg

PinguOurLordAndSaviour was it a prosthetic third leg?

Borderlands 2?

U not deserve to get that thing

That is the dumbest comment I have seen in a while....

DoubleJayPotato but made me laugh 😅😅

Alittlebig Ray lol same

You should be thankful to God that your physique extremities are intact. Think before you speak. #Sorry

I wish I could say I didn't...but yeah...I did.

Do you know her name?

Lol me too

ThatShyGuyis ME XD

Please, be careful about what you say

There hands seem a bit slow I'm gonna wait for bionics to be crazy fast like being able to independently flail my fingers before I decide.

I guess u should keep your real arm because we made machine we should rule machine not the opposite.

You're joking, but within this century bionic limbs will advance so much that they will eventually outclass biological limbs in every way, and people will in fact start cutting off their arms to receive a bionic one.

Technically old people with pacemakers in them are cyborgs.

Try bringing someone to life, works everytime can confirm

You can probably buy one without needing a prosthetic. Just say it's for robotics experiments if they ask.