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Dialogue: 0,0:00:00.30,0:00:06.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Walt Disney once said that animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:06.14,0:00:10.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He was talking about cartoons but advances in technology have taken
Dialogue: 0,0:00:10.45,0:00:13.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that basic concept to a whole new dimension.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:13.74,0:00:20.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Michelle Miller shows us how the idea of a modern day inventor became a 3D reality.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:20.41,0:00:25.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Grabbing a backpack is hardly the feat of a superhero
Dialogue: 0,0:00:25.13,0:00:27.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,unless you're 12-year-old Leon McCarthy
Dialogue: 0,0:00:27.87,0:00:32.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and you're hand looks like it's straight out of a science fiction movie!
Dialogue: 0,0:00:32.32,0:00:34.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Michelle: You've actually become sort of a ...
Dialogue: 0,0:00:34.07,0:00:36.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Leon: Cyborg!
Dialogue: 0,0:00:36.71,0:00:38.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Michelle: There's a cool factor
Dialogue: 0,0:00:38.61,0:00:41.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Leon: Yeah, it's special instead of different.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:41.82,0:00:44.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Leon has been special since birth.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:44.62,0:00:50.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When he was still in the womb, restricted blood flow prevented his hand from developing.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:50.19,0:00:52.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I saw his hand sticking up and there were no fingers on it.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:52.82,0:00:54.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it was hard for my wife, it was hard for me.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:54.89,0:01:00.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Two years ago, his father, Paul, began the search for an inexpensive, functional prosthetic
Dialogue: 0,0:01:00.91,0:01:07.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What he found was this internet video posted by Ivan Owen, an inventor in Washington State.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:07.99,0:01:12.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I've always had this vision of people being able to build their own prosthetic device at home.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:12.57,0:01:17.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Owen, and a collaborator in South Africa, designed a hand that could be
Dialogue: 0,0:01:17.11,0:01:20.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,made by a 3-dimensional printer.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:20.49,0:01:25.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's essentially like a hot glue gun. It's plastic that feeds into it,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:25.07,0:01:28.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the printer head gets really hot, it liquifies that plastic and then, layer by layer
Dialogue: 0,0:01:28.82,0:01:30.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it creates an object.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:30.41,0:01:35.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The design relies on wrist movement. Downward motion creates cable tension that
Dialogue: 0,0:01:35.13,0:01:38.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,closes the fingers while a move upward opens them.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:38.66,0:01:42.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The assembly instructions were posted for free on the internet so someone like
Dialogue: 0,0:01:42.94,0:01:47.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Paul McCarthy in Marblehead, Massachusetts could print it.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:47.24,0:01:49.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He took the idea to his son.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:49.38,0:01:51.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Leon: I thought he was a little crazy.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:51.41,0:01:55.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He was like "We can print all these fingers and then like, clip them all in"
Dialogue: 0,0:01:55.74,0:01:58.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it was a little too much.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:58.24,0:02:01.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Michelle: The first time you saw it, and when you tried it out
Dialogue: 0,0:02:01.16,0:02:03.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Leon: It was pretty awesome, yeah.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:03.20,0:02:04.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Michelle: What made it awesome?
Dialogue: 0,0:02:04.82,0:02:10.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Leon: I could pick up, say like, a water bottle, like say, I could pick up my pencil.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:10.27,0:02:12.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Michelle: What is it like to see him with this?
Dialogue: 0,0:02:12.30,0:02:17.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Making your kids happy is like the most rewarding thing you can have as a Dad, right?
Dialogue: 0,0:02:17.24,0:02:20.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The price tag was also appealing.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:20.16,0:02:26.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Mini 3D printers sell for about $2000, materials are far less expensive.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:26.32,0:02:29.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This thing cost us like 5-bucks, 10-bucks, you know, whatever, it was nothing.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:29.91,0:02:31.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What would a prosthesis cost you?
Dialogue: 0,0:02:31.99,0:02:34.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,$20,000 ... $30,000.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:34.69,0:02:40.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The cost allows father and son to experiment with newer designs.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:40.32,0:02:43.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Leon: When I outgrow a hand we can easily make a new one.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:43.03,0:02:49.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's a do-it-yourself solution that was unthinkable before technology made ideas printable!
Dialogue: 0,0:02:49.44,0:02:51.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's cool ... ... Yeah.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:51.11,0:02:54.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Michelle Miller, CBS News, Marblehead, Massachusetts.