Stella's Blog: September 2015

3D4MD turns solar powered suitcase 3D printer into medical tool for saving lives in third world and on Mars | B3dgeable:

The regular readers will have doubtlessly noticed, 3D printing technology is already steadily making a name for itself as a genuine and very useful medical technology. But Despite all the 3D printed organ replicas, bioprinted innovations and even plastic hand prosthetics out there, the reality is very few que are available to a broad public. People across the third world have very little access to basic medical care, let alone to 3D printed tools and prosthetics Themselves. But That Could be changing in the near future, the one Canadian doctor recently founded the That Is Employing 3D printers startup for medical care in hard to reach places. Called 3DMDand led by dr. Julielynn Wong, this fantastic initiative uses multipurpose solar-powered suitcase 3D printers que can be used to manufacture all sorts of medical tools in the remote corners of the world and even in space by astronauts.