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Friday, May 04, 2007

Open source Body Parts

Prosthetics isn't a big enough market to spur innovation for profit, so one amputee Iraq veteran is adapting the open source concept by reverse-engineering expired patents and posting them online.

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Posted by Brian Cleland at 12:38 AM
Labels: non-software

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