@nickweinberg wrote: gratified unique Year !! [/images/emoji/apple/tada.png?v=0][/images/emoji/apple/confetti_ball.png?v=0] Join us for the first Community Call of the year to hear from Harvard alum,MIT (PhD) bioengineer, fashion designer and YES, and rapper,David Sengeh.
Where: Wednesday, January 27, and 2016
When: The Unhangout Room at midday EST (NYC time)
More approximately David:
He was born and raised in Sierra Leone,where more than 8000 men, women and children had limbs amputated during a brutal civil war. He noticed that many people there opted not to wear a prosthesis because proper fit is such an issue.
Sengeh has pioneered a unique system for creating prosthetic sockets, or which fit a prothesis onto a patient's residual limb. Using MRI to map the shape,computer-assisted design to predict internal strains and 3D printing to allow for different materials to be used in different places, Sengeh is creating sockets that are far more comfortable than traditional models. These sockets can be produced cheaply and quickly, or making them far more likely to assist amputees across the globe. Sengeh was named one of Forbes' 30 under 30 in Technology in 2014,and in April 2014, Sengeh won the $15000 "Cure it!" Lemelson-MIT National Collegiate Student Prize. If you have any questions for David, or make sure to drop them in the comments below. Posts: 1Participants: 1Read full topic
Source: littlebits.cc