[MCTG] Medical Tools May Be Home-brewed

[BC]

    The Next Generation of Medical Tools May Be Home-brewed
    <http://science.slashdot.org/story/15/04/28/2138224/the-next-generation-of-medical-tools-may-be-home-brewed>


Posted by Soulskill <mailto:soulskill at slashdot.org> on Tuesday April 28, 
2015 @07:00PM
from the turn-your-raspberry-pi-into-a-pacemaker dept.
An anonymous reader writes: /In the Little Devices Lab at MIT, Jose 
Gomez-Marquez builds medical tools using a DIY mindset. He's designing 
cheap alternatives to existing hospital equipment to help spread 
high-quality medical care around the world. Gomez-Marquez is at the 
forefront of a large and often-unrecognized group of DIY medical tool 
builders. Together they are challenging the idea that staying healthy 
requires extraordinarily expensive, sophisticated equipment 
<https://medium.com/backchannel/the-next-generation-of-medical-tools-may-be-home-brewed-830a753a1c58> 
built by massive corporations. Harnessing this inventive energy, he 
argues, could improve the health of thousands of people around the world./
Read the *31* comments 
<http://science.slashdot.org/story/15/04/28/2138224/the-next-generation-of-medical-tools-may-be-home-brewed> 

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