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IDEA: Prosthetic Limb Covering

Posted on 12. Jan, 2009 by Charles Tsai in Tech-Inspiration, Technology

Grayson, 16, USA - Using Bubble Wrap and a flesh colored hose to form a cosmetic covering for endo-skeletal prosthetic limbs to help amputees in developing countries better blend in with their society. 

I won the grand-prize for a contest sponsored by Sealed Air Corporation for creating this, and have been to Africa twice to implement it with my parent’s prosthetic limb outreach, Standing With Hope.

There are a lot of amputees around the world, and I would like to reach more of them with this invention.

I plan to return to Ghana in the summer, and we are looking to go to China and possibly North Africa.

Me forming a leg covering with Bubblewrap Last Summer (Ghana, West Africa

Tags: Africa, assist, USA