In this video Dean Kamen talks about building a mechanical arm for veterans. Many kids are coming back from the lines loosing limbs, some of them bilateral. The only alternative they have for an arm is a plastic stick and a hook on the end and it has been that way sense the civil war. Dean was put in charge of building a mechanical arm for these men and women, and in doing so learns a lot along the way.
Original Source:
TED
Published:
October 01, 2009 







