Mick Ebeling

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3D Printing Helps Amputees

Staff Writer | ITWeb | January 10, 2014

Not Impossible, a California-based media and technology company, has embarked on a project to use 3D printing to provide hands and arms for amputees in South Sudan and the war-torn Nuba Mountains. Read More »

3D Printing Prosthetic Limbs: How 'Project Daniel' Is Revolutionizing Healthcare In South Sudan

Melanie Ehrenkranz | International Digital Times | January 14, 2014

Daniel Omar was 14-years-old when he lost both of his arms in a bomb attack in the Nuba Mountains of South Sudan. Fast forward two years. Thanks to the innovations of California-based research firm Not Impossible Labs as well as the advancements in 3D printing, Daniel now has his left-arm prosthetic and is currently helping to print prostheses for others. [...] Read More »

Blue Cross to Present the Faces of Fearless Healthcare Innovation Award with Not Impossible Labs

Press Release | Blue Cross Blue Shield Association, Not Impossible Labs | August 29, 2017

The Blue Cross Blue Shield Association (BCBSA) will present the Faces of Fearless Healthcare Innovation Award as part of the 2018 Not Impossible Awards show at CES® 2018 in Las Vegas. The Faces of Fearless Healthcare Innovation Award is included in the Not Impossible Awards show and recognizes technological innovation that advances health and wellness. The award exemplifies the values of the Blue Cross Blue Shield (BCBS) Faces of Fearless℠ campaign, which celebrates the stories of people who are overcoming challenges to live their healthiest lives.

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CES 2014: How 3D Printing's Changing Lives In S Sudan

Arthur Goldstuck | Mail & Guardian | January 9, 2014

Not Impossible, the company using 3D printers to provide hands and arms for amputees in South Sudan, has stunned CES with a life-changing initiative. Read More »

Eye Writer Glasses Allow Paralyzed Graffiti Artist To Draw Again

Tom Spendlove | Engineering.com | September 13, 2013

Graffiti artist TEMPT is the subject of Mick Ebeling's TED Talk, The invention that unlocked a locked-in artist. TEMPT is completely paralyzed, able to only use his eyes. Read More »

How A $100 3D-Printed Arm Is Saving The Children Of Sudan

Julie Bort | SF Gate | January 7, 2014

A company called Not Impossible Labs has come up with one of the best uses for 3D printer technology we've ever heard of: printing low-cost prosthetic arms for people, mainly children, who have lost limbs in the war-torn country of Sudan. Read More »

How A 3D printer Gave A Teenage Bomb Victim A New Arm – And A Reason To Live

Emma Bryce | Guardian | January 19, 2014

When Mick Ebeling read about a boy in South Sudan who had lost his arms, he set off with a 3D printer to make him a prosthetic limb. Now the project is bringing hope to the country's other 50,000-plus amputees Read More »

How a TIME Article Led To The Invention Of A $100 3D-Printed Artificial Limb

Harry McCracken | TIME | January 7, 2014

That’s the bleak conclusion to a bleak TIME story by Alex Perry from April 2012. It concerns Daniel Omar, a Sudanese 14-year-old who had his hands blown off by a bomb dropped by the Sudanese government in an attack on rebel forces. [...] Remarkably, though, the story went on to become much, much happier — and yes, it’s one that makes sense to be told here in TIME.com’s tech section. Read More »

How Project Daniel Is Crafting Prosthetic Limbs With 3D Printers

Danielle Restuccia | VOXXI | April 7, 2014

Project Daniel is a rare beacon of light in the otherwise war-torn area of South Sudan: researchers recently pioneered 3D printing as a means of building prosthetic arms for child amputees.  According to the official press release, Project Daniel—which is funded by Not Impossible, LLC—opened the “world’s first 3D-printing prosthetic lab and training facility” in the Nuba Mountain region of Sudan.

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Mick Ebeling Featured Speaker At ALA President’s Program, 2015 Midwinter Meeting

Press Release | American Library Association | October 10, 2014

“Say yes first, ask questions later. Commit, then figure it out,” says Mick Ebeling, who promises ALA Midwinter Meeting attendees an inspiring message about finding creative solutions to real-world problems by looking at them differently. Ebeling will be welcomed by Courtney Young as the featured speaker at the ALA President’s Program from 3:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. on Sunday, Feb. 1...

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Mick Ebeling Interview - Open Source Tech & Changing Healthcare

Staff Writer | TYTInterviews | June 19, 2013

Mick Ebeling is an executive producer, entrepreneur, and philanthropist. You may recognize him from his TED Talk for the EyeWriter (http://bit.ly/eFHK1b) a collaborative DIY project that "unlocked" TEMPT One, a well-known L.A. graffiti artist who was rendered unable to move, breathe or speak after being diagnosed with ALS, a degenerative nerve disease. Read More »

Mick Ebeling Open Source DIY Tech & Changing Healthcare

Staff Writer | Institute for Emerging Ethics & Technologies (IEET) | July 10, 2013

The nerve disease ALS left graffiti artist TEMPT paralyzed from head to toe, forced to communicate blink by blink. In a remarkable talk at TEDActive, entrepreneur Mick Ebeling shares how he and a team of collaborators built an open-source invention that gave the artist—and gives others in his circumstance—the means to make art again. Read More »

Mick Ebeling Turns Tragedies Into Technological Breakthroughs

Guy Dixon | The Globe and Mail | June 19, 2014

The act involved great humanism, a 3-D printer and that contemporary need to film it all.  It’s the curious way humanitarianism (and the money to back it) works in modern times. It started when Mick Ebeling read a news article about Daniel Omar, then a 14-year-old Sudanese boy who had lost an arm to a bomb attack.

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Mick Ebeling, Founder Of Not Impossible Labs, Shares His Story Of “Project Daniel” Using 3D Printers & Ultrabooks™ To Make Prosthetic Arms For Children Of South Sudan

Press Release | Not Impossible Labs | January 7, 2014

Not Impossible, LLC, a California media and technology company, is using 3D printers connected to Ultrabooks™ to provide hands and arms for amputees in South Sudan and the war-torn Nuba Mountains. In November, Not Impossible printed a prosthetic hand that allowed a teenager to feed himself for the first time in two years. Read More »

Mick Ebeling: The Invention That Unlocked A Locked-In Artist

Staffwriter | TED | April 1, 2011

The nerve disease ALS left graffiti artist TEMPT paralyzed from head to toe, forced to communicate blink by blink. In a remarkable talk at TEDActive, entrepreneur Mick Ebeling shares how he and a team of collaborators built an open-source invention that gave the artist -- and gives others in his circumstance -- the means to make art again. Read More »