SmartSkin
The challenge
April's grandmother's experiences provide valuable insights for developing effective solutions for skin burn survivors.
Who it helps
After suffering from a 70% skin burn, April's grandmother faced physical limitations due to the skin's inability to stretch and move properly. Burnt skin fused together, limiting the movement of her fingers and toes.
How it works
Skin burn patients often have problem eating chopsticks, especially picking up small pieces of food like peanuts. This is a problem of distortion of muscles after skin burn. We address this problem by adding a clamp to the chopsticks.
"SmartSkin" is a stablizer for skin burn patients to pick up food using chopsticks.
Tools needed
Fusion 360
Measurement tool
FDM Printer
Project details
- Stage: Working Model
- Built by the NYU Abu Dhabi community, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
- Team: Skin burn sufferers
- Category: Daily Living, Therapy
- 5 downloads
The build files for SmartSkin are free to download from this page - open source, shared by TOM: Tikkun Olam Makers.
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