Teen hero builds hand for young friend

[bixaorellana]

www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2430396,00.asp

Has anyone seen this story yet? A 16-year-old used the 3-D printer in his local library to create a working hand for his 9-year-old neighbor who was born without fingers on one hand.

www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2430396,00.asp

Don't know why the link keeps breaking. After seven attempts, I just ask you all to copy & paste it if you want to read the article.
Thanks V5, for making things so much easier for us.

[fumobici]

Feb 8, 2014 3:42:35 GMT bixaorellana said:

www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2430396,00.asp

Has anyone seen this story yet? A 16-year-old used the 3-D printer in his local library to create a working hand for his 9-year-old neighbor who was born without fingers on one hand.

www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2430396,00.asp

Don't know why the link keeps breaking. After seven attempts, I just ask you all to copy & paste it if you want to read the article.
Thanks V5, for making things so much easier for us.

The commas are confounding the site software, which reads them as bad syntax when it should parse them into a link.  Too much information here: stackoverflow.com/questions/198606/can-i-use-commas-in-a-url

[bixaorellana]

Thanks so much, Fumobici! You must have discerned my little meltdown there. Very interesting site. Here's what I should have done, were I not having a frustration hissy fit: tinyurl.com/mjdnbkx

[lagatta]

Yes, that's a great story. Is it odd that a PC magazine should use unwieldy code?

I don't understand why they want the boy to write with his right hand, though. Surely he had learnt to write with his "normal" left hand.

[bixaorellana]

I suppose if he's naturally right-handed, maybe using the prosthetic might feel more normal to him than using his intact but "incorrect" left hand.