{"id":7497,"date":"2015-07-25T08:36:06","date_gmt":"2015-07-25T13:36:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/?p=7497"},"modified":"2022-12-07T21:55:15","modified_gmt":"2022-12-08T02:55:15","slug":"thanks-to-ikos-designer-kids-can-build-their-own-hands-using-lego","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/thanks-to-ikos-designer-kids-can-build-their-own-hands-using-lego\/","title":{"rendered":"Thanks to Iko’s designer, kids can build their own hands using Lego"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Credit: Carlos Arturo Torres\/Ume\u00e5 Institute of Design<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Carlos Arturo Torres is a believer in fun and childhood now living in Chicago. In 2014, as a student at Sweden’s Ume\u00e5 Institute of Design in Sweden, he also became the creator of Iko \u2013 “a prosthetic arm for children that also acts as a platform for creative Lego projects<\/a>.” Iko responds to signals traveling through its wearer’s arm nerves to move, pick up and manipulate objects and it’s got a great grip<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Torres explains,<\/p>\n

sometimes a functional element is everything (a kid needs), but some other times it might be a spaceship, or a doll house, or a telescope, or a video game controller, or a swim fin. What if kids could use their imagination to create their own prosthetics, their own tools according to their own needs? Learning. Creating. Being kids.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Iko brought fun, sharing and ability into the lives of eight year old prototype tester Dario and his friends and family in Bogota, Colombia. See it in action for yourself.<\/p>\n