3D Printers Deliver Competitive Alternative to Traditional Prosthetic Limbs

San Francisco-based Bespoke Innovations builds and sells custom-designed prosthetic human body parts created from 3D printing machines. The printers generate limb casings wrapped in embroidered leather, metal, or other materials.

A custom prosthesis was printed using 3D SLS equipment.

Company co-founder Scott Summit built a scan-ning device to examine limbs using a camera. After the scan, a detailed image is transmitted to a computer and Summit begins sculpting his limb art. He uses a 3D printer to create plastic shells that fit around the prosthetic limbs, and then wraps the shells in any flexible material the customer desires. Then the custom prosthesis is printed using 3D Systems Selective Laser Sintering (SLS) equipment.

He and his orthopedic surgeon partner Kenneth B. Trauner build test models of complete legs that have sophisticated features such as body symmetry, locking knees, and flexing ankles. One artistic design is metal-plated in some areas and leather-wrapped in others. “It costs $5,000 to $6,000 to print one of these legs, and it has features that are not available in existing prosthetic legs that cost $60,000 today,” Summit said. “We want people to provide input and select their options,” he added. “It’s about going from the Model T to something like a Mini that has 10 million permutations.

EVA System for Vitreoretinal and Cataract Surgery

EVA is a combined system for vitreoretinal and cataract surgery. At the heart of EVA is a revolutionary fluidcontrol system, the so-called VacuFlow VTi with timing intelligence valve control. This gives the surgeon control over flow and vacuum during eye surgery. 

The use of high-quality materials reflects the instruments high precision. Thanks to its modular structure, the system is easy to maintain and a variety of customer specific configurations are possible. The intuitive user interface makes all relevant information readily available for doctors and nurses.

First Aid 2.0 zwycięzca Red Dot Design Award  2011.

Może być używany w domu, w biurze, podróży i w plenerze. Niezawodny w użyciu.

First Aid 2.0 projekt  Pow Ying Hern posiada dotykowy ekran LED z instrukcją dotyczącą udzielania pierwszej pomocy. Częste urazy i ich leczenie wyświetlają się na ekranie.

First Aid 2.0 oferuje funkcję GPS, które pomogą zlokalizować najbliższy szpital i połączyć 
się z nim. Może to również pomóc ratownikom szybciej zlokalizować, miejsce wypadku.
Lampka LED świeci czerwonym światłem więc uda nam się go szybko w ciemności.
Jest zdolny do pracy przez pełne 24 godzin (bez ładowania), lub 6 miesięcy w trybie czuwania.

    P.L.E.A.S.E. 

Professional is a desktop model for a novel mode of drug delivery in medical practices. The device, designed to be stand-alone, controls a handheld laser, which the doctor can apply to micro-pores in the skin to prepare the skin area for the administration of medication via a patch.

In contrast to very painful drug injections, e.g. in hormone therapy, the use of the laser system is painless.

GANYMED Walking Aid

Walking with conventional crutches requires great physical effort since a so-called “mountain of strength” must be overcome.

The Ganymed walking aid, however, avoids such effort expenditure with its S form, thereby facilitating quadrupedal posture and keeping the point of ground contact in view. Moreover, with a hardy bionic construction using the newest of materials, the walking aid is ultralight yet still able to withstand high amounts of stress.