Carpenter who cut off his fingers makes 'Robohand' with 3-D printer by Kiyanna Elliott

http://www.cnn.com/2014/04/14/tech/innovation/carpenter-fingers-robohand-3-d/index.html

In May 2011, Richard van As sat in a Johannesburg hospital waiting to hear if his fingers could be stitched back on. Just an hour earlier, he had been in his carpentry workshop sawing wood when the saw slipped and ripped through four fingers on his right hand. Rather than think negatively about the situation, he was already thinking of ways to fix the issue. After searching the Internet for days, he couldn't find anywhere to buy functional prosthetic fingers and was surprised by the cost of prosthetic hands and limbs, but found and amateur video posted by a mechanical effects artist named Ivan Owen.Together, they developed a mechanical finger for van As, but it has gone on to benefit a lot of people who are hand and arm amputees around the world through the creation of the company Robohand which creates affordable mechanical prosthetics through the use of 3D printers and also has open sourced designs so that anyone with access to a 3D printer can print out fingers, hands and now arms too.

This is really nice because nowadays if you have some sort of physical ailment and you want to to get something that can help you ease any difficulty you might have then it usually will cost a lot of money. Mostly anything that has to do with anything medical will cost a ton of money even with insurance. It's also go because people used there negative situation and turned it into a positive one not just for them but others too.