Custom, printable splints could make it easier to treat minor-yet-debilitating injuries in disaster zones or underdeveloped regions. Three graduate students at UCLA's school of Architecture & Urban Design have created a 3-D printed wrist splint that they hope could one day provide underdeveloped regions with quick and effective medical relief. The team's prototype is gorgeous--an intricate exoskeleton designed around the actual structure of bone to provide support exactly where injured wrists mo...
Custom, printable splints could make it easier to treat minor-yet-debilitating injuries in disaster zones or underdeveloped regions. Three graduate students at UCLA's school of Architecture & Urban Design have created a 3-D printed wrist splint that they hope could one day provide underdeveloped regions with quick and effective medical relief. The team's prototype is gorgeous--an intricate exoskeleton designed around the actual structure of bone to provide support exactly where injured wrists mo...
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