14 DAY TRIAL // Prosthetics come in various forms and blueprints, and the ones that are supposed to be more than just placeholders usually need to be put together by mechanics, but 3D printing can do it now too, much to the delight of amputees from Sudan.
Sudan is a war-torn country, and there are about 50,000 amputees living there.
Back in 2012, a 14-year-old boy named Daniel Omar had his story published by Time Magazine after losing both his hands to a bomb dropped by his own country's government.
Mick Ebeling, CEO of Not Impossible Labs, was touched by the story to the extent that he moved house to Sudan and built him a new arm.
He used some laptops and 3D printers to do it, and now has a lab at a local hospital where he can produce low-cost prosthetic limbs for everyone that can scrape up $100 / €74.
The prosthetics won't lift heavy objects or do things that are all that sophisticated, but they'll let patients eat without help. And it only takes six hours to make one.
Daniel is now using his new arm to help build prosthetics for other people.