A leg up
Sunday, September 18, 2011 at 9:24AM
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One tent at the Maker Faire was devoted to health technology and related advances. The Jaipur foot is a reminder that solutions needn't be complicated or expensive; the prostheses, which costs around $30, was developed in India in the late 1960s to help those who had lost limbs from landmine blasts.

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