Old - fashioned casts are filthy , a maturate stinksleeves that you wear like a medieval torture gadget for what seems like forever.3D - printed cast take care of the smell and itch issues , and nowDeniz Karasahin has contrive the next footmark : a customs duty cast with an echography gadget to step on it up bone healing .
Karasahin ’s Osteoid is , plainly , just a design construct , achiever of the 2014 Golden A’Design Awardin the 3D - print forms and product design class . But it ’s based on sound skill : humble - intensity pulsed ultrasound ( LIPUS ) has been found toreduce os healing meter by nearly 40%with just one 20 - min treatment a sidereal day . The therapy has been tricky to administer , because it ask placing ultrasound leads on the skin directly over the bone wound . That ’s impossible with an older - school plaster cast — but not with a 3D printed cast of the hereafter .
Since this is a design conception , you belike wo n’t find it in your emergency room anytime presently . So like , do n’t go break your arm this weekend just for the chance to get a sci - fi 3D - printed cast . But projects like this show the cunning things that can get when great theme in science and design derive together . Someday , the great unwashed with rugged arms will walk around wait like cyborg . [ A’Design AwardviaDamnGeeky ]
Images : Deniz Karahasin
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