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Robert Downey Jr. Presents Bionic Iron Man Arm To Child(3D printed prostetic)
Comicbook.com ^
| 3/12/15
| Jamie Lovitt
Posted on 03/12/2015 9:37:23 AM PDT by barmag25
Iron Man star Robert Downey Jr. took his character into the real world to present a young boy with a bionic Iron Man arm of his own.
The young boy, Alex, was born with a partially developed right arm. The Microsoft OneNote Collective Project has been working develop an arm for Alex. Given Alexs love of superheroes, they thought it might be fun to bring a larger-than-life bionics expert to help out.
Check out the video in the tweet below.
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TOPICS: Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: ironman
3d printed prostetic arm. Video at link.
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posted on
03/12/2015 9:37:23 AM PDT
by
barmag25
To: barmag25
Very cool; and a pretty collected young man. Though that likely wasn't exactly the response that Robert Downey Jr wanted. :)
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posted on
03/12/2015 9:42:46 AM PDT
by
kingu
(Everything starts with slashing the size and scope of the federal government.)
To: barmag25
Man I am so glad to see Downey turned his life around! I was expecting him to die young after all the trouble he got into.
I think he thought carefully about where he could end up after playing that loser druggie character in “less than zero” - the one that was forced to perform homosexual acts to pay for his drug habit.
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posted on
03/12/2015 9:55:47 AM PDT
by
Mr. K
(Palin/Cruz 2016 (for 16 years of conservative bliss))
To: barmag25
I am glad RDJ turned his life around as well. He has become the best actor of his age, IMO.
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posted on
03/12/2015 10:15:37 AM PDT
by
OriginalChristian
(The end of America, as founded, began when the first Career Politician was elected...)
To: barmag25
Over the last couple of years, I have seen many 3d printed designs for artificial hands and limbs grow in complexity and functionality. Then a few months ago I saw some cool designs for kids that modeled Iron Man and thought that this is a great use of 3d printed, open soured design. I don't think I have ever seen anything take off like the innovation trajectory on these artificial limbs.
Kudos to Downey as well.
To: Mr. K
Downey is awesome. Give me all the kudos for overcoming his personal demons. A lot of the cast from the Marvel movies seem to be great people including Chris Evans and Chris Pratt.
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posted on
03/12/2015 10:22:11 AM PDT
by
C19fan
To: Mr. K
I remember that movie especially the hit song “Hazy Shade of Winter” performed by the Bangles.
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posted on
03/12/2015 10:23:41 AM PDT
by
C19fan
To: barmag25
Very uplifting video.
Downey stayed in his Iron Man character throughout.
Kudos to the college student who made the device.
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posted on
03/12/2015 10:26:36 AM PDT
by
exit82
("The Taliban is on the inside of the building" E. Nordstrom 10-10-12)
To: barmag25
It's really nice to see Downey using his connection to his audience through his portrayal of Tony Stark for something so GOOD as this.
Kudo's Mr. Downey... and also to all the people behind the scenes that made all this happen for Alex.
It's so nice to be shown that there are good things that happen in the world.
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posted on
03/12/2015 12:13:17 PM PDT
by
Rodamala
To: onedoug
To: C19fan
I remember that movie especially the hit song Hazy Shade of Winter performed by the Bangles. I just remembered Jamie Gertz....Hubba Hubba.
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posted on
04/26/2015 5:07:35 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
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