Several years ago, Ebeling and his wife went to a fundraising event. They bought some paintings from the event to support the cause. They found out the art was the work of LA graffiti artist Tempt One , who was fully paralyzed because of Lou Gehrig's disease. He couldn't move or breathe on his own, let alone make art. Ebeling committed right then to Tempt One's brother and father that he would get them a Steven Hawking-type machine so he could speak again, and he also promised the man that he would draw again.
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But he did it, with the help of his wife and his team at Not Impossible, and now the design of the Eyewriter device they created is available for free from their site. The Eyewriter was also the source of inspiration for a documentary. By hooking up a PS3 camera mounted to an LED light and connected to a pair of cheap sunglasses, he created a medical device that tracks eye movements so that a person can draw or write.
The software is open source, free, and available to help anyone who is paralyzed. The artist drew again after seven years when he started using the device. The Eyewriter was the seed for the Brainwriter , which tracks brain waves instead of eye movements so that someone who can't even move their eyes can draw or write.
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The product will debut this summer and stand on display next to Google Glass and Oculus Rift at a museum in London. The war in Sudan is one of the most violent and longstanding in Africa. According to Not Impossible, it has left 50, amputees in its wake.
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A boy named Daniel was one of them. He had his arms blown off when he was Ebeling saw an article in Time Magazine about Daniel, and traveled to Sudan with 3D printers, spools of plastic, and a goal to build a prosthetic arm for Daniel. He had sponsorship from Intel and Precipart, as well as donations through the Not Impossible Foundation.
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He made the arm using a 3D printer , and watched Daniel feed himself for the first time in two years. Ebeling then taught the village locals how to make the prosthetics themselves so the project could continue. Since then, they have printed an arm a week. Though 3D printing isn't a part of every project Not Impossible takes on, it is an important aspect of ones like these, and Ebeling truly believes in the power of this new technology. It's a tool," Ebeling said. The philosophy of Not Impossible Labs is "Technology for the sake of humanity. It's not ours to decide.
Right now, the Not Impossible Labs team touches every project they commit to, and it's hard to do as much as they want. Ebeling said he get emails every day about new, inspiring things to work on in the healthcare field.
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Other projects that the team is working on include a device to help the deaf hear again and something to help blind people detect what's above them so they don't run into things. He gave an example: There are many other things that aren't emotionally connective or Not Impossible doesn't have the resources to tackle. However, Chapman deftly addresses this issue himself by the amount of grounding he gives his argument.
Indeed, very few of his points does he even try to promote as solely his own.
Most of them are rooted in evidence found in another source that he either just reports or often nuances in some new way to fit his argument. Acknowledging these intertextualities with creation myths is nothing new. However, Chapman succeeds in making an important distinction here. Some of the most noteworthy examples Chapman gives of this modern-ness and the immediacy that it lends this myth have to do with the structure of the text. He also references biographical information to support this point.
Chapman provides adequate examples here that make a convincing argument for this reading of the text that may be new to his readers. He begins by explaining some biographical context for Mary Shelley that is relevant to her opinions on gender. He references Shelley's tragic experiences with motherhood as her own mother, Mary Wollstonecraft , an early feminist writer, died young and her own firstborn died in infancy. Although this information about Shelley is already well known, Chapman uses it efficiently and to his advantage.
By relating Shelley to her character, he opens the discussion for how gender functions within the novel. First, there seem to be several errors in continuity that need to be mentioned.