Gadgetory

my name is Mick Ebeling and I love the concept of Technology and creativity colliding i was born in Long Beach California and then moved out to phoenix arizona tempe phoenix arizona grew up in a fantastic family parents were married until the day my dad died so every summer at literally every summer we would go on a family vacation and we've got the same family vacation every year and we would camp at to camp sites every single time we would leave the campground my dad would always say you always leave the campground cleaner than when you found it and looking back now it's one of those things that ever so subtly just ingrained a certain way of thinking into my brother and I in terms of just trying to make the world a slightly better place in 2009 i got bit by this bug of using and hacking technology for the sake of humanity and taking technology and actually applying it to things that are gonna create a more global good i came back from dinner one night after having a conversation with a friend of mine and he told me about this doctor out in south sudan who was helping the people of the nuba mountains who were getting bombed and there was a large number of amputees out there went online and and researched him a little bit and was just blown away by his story and the story of a young boy named Daniel who dr. Tom had helped stitch up and that story for me was one of those stories that you couldn't just read it it was just something that stuck in me that I had to do something earlier in the summer we had just interviewed a guy named Richard vanassa he created this 3d printed prosthetic solution that was amazing and now he was making it for other kids who needed it we ended up going to Africa if we found Daniel which that was a miracle and of itself that we found this young boy who at the time was in a 70,000 person refugee camp when we put the arm on him for the first time all of a sudden he started to see oh my oh my gosh I've got an arm now and that I think was the moment for him where he got it like he totally understood like I am gonna have this extension now and it works after we made the arm for him he was able to feed himself we made our train our trip up to dr. Tom and then we taught about eight or nine young men who were working at the hospital how to 3d print and how to make these arms themselves in my life if I can keep causing or being exposed to those moments of realization that was like pure moments of just aha like oh my gosh and doing that in a way that's actually like pushing society forward and advancing us as a species then man that's that's that's all I can wish for the thing that I'm most excited about is that this has awoken the realization that this is not rocket science if we can continue to show people that technology is not this foreign inaccessible thing that you can't actually use but it's something that's very real and that can help the world and help individuals within their the world then then project Daniels going to be the first of many things my name is makeb lean and this is my story you