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Aadeel Akhtar is on a mission to meet the skyrocketing demand for prosthetics with his bionic Ability Hand—and change the narrative around disability.

Our model reconstructs the Kassel Hand’s original metal mechanisms in plastic. Heidi Hausse, CC BY-SA After all, the model is made from relatively weak polylactic acid.

Nestled within the case’s foam inserts was a functioning 3D-printed model of a 500-year-old prosthetic hand. Fifteen minutes later, it broke.