While three-dimensional printing has been around for some time, a new generation of fast, cheap 3-D printers offers up a world of possibilities for highly-customized products. Prosthetic limbs are a ...

For alumnus Jerry Evans, every job is a custom job. “The shape of a person’s limb is as unique as their signature,” he says. “You can’t meet this need with mass production.” After graduating from the ...

"It's better to do something than sit home and watch." He met with Catena and together they set up the world's first 3D-printing prosthetic lab and training facility at a local hospital where consumer ...

Video: Researchers from Toronto have found a way to make prosthetic limbs using a 3D printer. As Christina Stevens reports, the limbs are transforming lives a world away. TORONTO – Consumer ...

I don’t know, though. The idea of 3D printing Doctor Octopus-like technological limbs is scary. I mean, did you see what he nearly did to New York in Spider-Man 2? Looking more optimistically, though, ...

Jerry Evans, the president and CEO of Nia, said having a prosthetic limb can make a “huge difference” in quality of life, and called the need “tremendous.” ...

3D printed prosthetics, on the other hand, cost as low as just $50. It is also possible to make prosthetic limbs faster using 3D printing; limbs can be printed within a day.

Boudreau is the founder of Kindness3D, a non-profit chapter of a global network called e-Nable that brings together 3D printer enthusiasts to manufacture prosthetic limbs. Kindness3D modified a ...

Students in Pickering, Ont., have come together to help an international 3D-printing campaign. The initiative helps print low-cost prosthetic limbs for people around the world.

This led him to buy his own printer and set about creating a number of colourful, comic book-inspired hands for his son - including his latest Batman-themed prosthetic.