Agile Complexification Inverter

Here is a great heart warming story.  A group of Girl Scouts invent a prosthetic hand.  The device cost about $10 to make.  And somewhere in the process they are encouraged to patent the invention.  Why not donate the invention to the public domain? Should the Girl Scout leaders have encouraged the group to look beyond the typical process of patent.  Think about the values of the Girl Scouts. The Girl Scout Law I will do my best to be: honest and fair, friendly and helpful, considerate and caring, courageous and strong, and responsible for what I say and do, and to respect myself and others, respect authority, use resources wisely, make the world a better place, and be a sister to every Girl Scout. Imagine if "The Man Who Saved the Children" , Virologist, JONAS SALK had patented his invention.  The polio vaccine.

A company known for fun, Volkswagen (VW) is sponsoring the contest, to prove that fun is more fun than not having fun and therefore changes human behavior. Win 2500 EU  The Fun Theory Watch the YouTube examples, create your own idea and enter.

Look at the advances in less than a decade.  Here's a video from May 2016 from IEEE Spectrum . Mashable - Luke Skywalker hand for amputees It's like you have a  hand  again. Amputee makes history with mind  control  limbs. Prosthetic Hand Restores Amputee's Sense of Touch Luke Arm (Sept. 2009) How long did Luke Skywalker have to wait for his prosthetic arm? Not long he was back in the action within days it seems. I’ve been loosely following the Luke Arm - Dean Kamen’s name of the DARPA funded prosthesis. First I’m floored that in 30 months the team could create such a beautiful design (beautiful in an engineering way). The human arm (counting the hand also) has 22 degrees of freedom (DOF) (movements like forearm rotation). The traditional hook and cable prosthetic has just 3 DOF. That hook was designed in the days of sailing ships, updated with aircraft cabling to allow some movement after World War I. The typical user gives up on the fr...