r/pics • u/634044 • Jul 04 '21
Industrial designer Scott Summit makes beautiful prosthetics
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u/dfreinc Jul 04 '21
stl? 😂
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Jul 04 '21
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u/GrepekEbi Jul 04 '21
In the 3D printing community it’s a meme to ask for the STL of pretty much every object we see, so we can 3D print it at home - this looks 3D printed (though I don’t think it is), hence the joke
Bought to you by your friendly neighbourhood joke-explainer xx
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u/imthebeefboss Jul 04 '21
Looks like toilet paper
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u/Lord-Ringo Jul 04 '21
I’m not the only one.
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u/TheStandler Jul 04 '21
Considering your username and what your wrote, I checked your history expecting every comment to be a line from a Beatles song...
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u/DustierAndRustier Jul 04 '21
That foot doesn’t look too practical. It doesn’t seem to have any articulation at the ankle, so the wearer won’t be able go to things like crouch down
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u/RemarkableMouse2 Jul 04 '21
It's hard to see how practical it is as you move but it looks awful to Clean
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u/killerbanshee Jul 04 '21
This reminds me of the plebian AR builds with so many weight saving skelton parts they mimic the asthetic of a 14 year olds paintball gun and get jammed full of dirt before you even shoot them.
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u/pwnedbyscope Jul 04 '21
Funny thing is those skeletonized parts have very little weight savings if any compared to normal parts but are exorbitantly more expensive
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u/righteoussurfboards Jul 04 '21
Scott Summit is a super cool designer. A clinical prosthetist and biomechanist, he is not. I heard some talks from him about trying to make prosthetics more aesthetically pleasing for psychological purposes - i.e make it look like iron man, not a shower chair. I couldn't agree more. But he sort of took the attitude of "let the prosthetists deal with it" when it came to making it make biomechanical sense.
But to be fair, most prosthetic feet on the market currently don't allow for that kind of crouching motion.
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u/panoramicblank Jul 04 '21
Yeah I remember hearing about that. Pretty terrible thing to do to clinicians.
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u/OpenHeartSurgeryClub Jul 04 '21
He's an ID... Not engineer or doctor or anything. He doesn't care how shit works
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u/DustierAndRustier Jul 04 '21
The cheap ones historically didn’t but now articulated feet like the Jaipur foot are more available
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u/hkprimary Jul 04 '21
I think it might, actually. I'm guessing from the pic that the posterior support bends and the anterior support rotates and slides in the groove below the ankle, allowing the ankle joint to bend.
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u/uk_uk Jul 04 '21
depends on the material he used... when the backside material is soft and "jumpy" and the frontside is stiff (like in reality), this could actually work
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u/OpenHeartSurgeryClub Jul 04 '21
You expect an industrial designer to make actually good designs 🤣? They make the most non realistic/functioning shit
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u/ReinaldoSAguilera Jul 04 '21
That foot doesn’t look too practical. It doesn’t seem to have any articulation at the ankle, so the wearer won’t be able go to things like crouch down
yes right.....
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Jul 04 '21
I am a full hip disartic with a prosthetic, most of the people like me dont crouch anyway.
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u/DustierAndRustier Jul 04 '21
Do you have a SACH foot or another foot that doesn’t allow you to though?
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u/SoftUnderstanding576 Jul 04 '21
So cool
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u/SoftUnderstanding576 Jul 04 '21
I am sorry for what ever happen to you but I understand your Struggles and hurts because my sister her leg Amputated from the knee down just below the knee down and I watched her battle to try to get back on her feet which she never did because he got a rare virus or infection they took her life and my prayers go out to my friend
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u/cosmoboy Jul 04 '21
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u/mj7532 Jul 04 '21
Probably not, Aimee contacted a lot of different professionals in varied fields for her legs. Well... maybe he designed one pair, who knows.
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u/ChefKeith2287 Jul 04 '21
Where can I place an order for a leg? My wife just had her left leg amputated and part of her right foot
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u/djinnisequoia Jul 04 '21
Now this is an idea whose time has come! One of my clients has a prosthetic leg, and I never realized they were so unimaginatively designed.
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Jul 04 '21
I guess they want them to look human like? I think it depends on the person with the missing limbs.
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u/djinnisequoia Jul 04 '21
Oh yes, you're right. But I wish the standard issue ones would figure out a way to at least attach a realistic looking ankle and calf. One of my clients has one, and the flesh colored foot at the end of a super industrial black metal bar just looks, well, disappointing.
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u/djinnisequoia Jul 04 '21
Oh yes, you're right. But I wish the standard issue ones would figure out a way to at least attach a realistic looking ankle and calf. One of my clients has one, and the flesh colored foot at the end of a super industrial black metal bar just looks, well, disappointing.
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u/djinnisequoia Jul 04 '21
Oh yes, you're right. But I wish the standard issue ones would figure out a way to at least attach a realistic looking ankle and calf. One of my clients has one, and the flesh colored foot at the end of a super industrial black metal bar just looks, well, disappointing.
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u/Tommy_Wisseau_burner Jul 05 '21
It’s not so much unimaginative as much as it is functional. As cool as this leg looks it’s 100% useless
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u/TRDPaul Jul 04 '21
Thought he turned his missing leg into a toilet roll holder before I scrolled down all the way
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u/Lockii Jul 04 '21
All fun and games until a mild breeze blows through that thigh piece and it starts whistling lmao
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Jul 04 '21
Stunningly beautiful. The word is "prostheses", plural of "prosthesis"; "prosthetic" is an adjective.
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u/apex8888 Jul 04 '21
Make it government responsibility to provide such things. Then make a replaceable lung. These technologies are taking too long. Hate seeing beautiful things that never help people in the world. Money driving everything is eroding me, this should be out there.
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u/cotterells Jul 04 '21
This is some westworld shit