–Pill Crush: Many people, whether they are experiencing a disability or not, have trouble consuming large and intimidating medication, which led the final selected prototype, the Pill Crush, to be selected by judges as an innovative assisted device. The device was prototyped to act as a portable medicine grinder that is able to function as a syringe as well. Helping those disabled individuals who have problems with medication intake an reliable and cheap alternative.

As you can see, each of the selected assistive device prototypes satisfies their own niche in the industry of disability solutions. MakerBot and TOM have taken this seemingly successful Makeathon competition and have created a new challenge to put these ideas out into the world via Thingiverse, where their global community of 3D printing enthusiasts can further improve and innovate these prototypical designs. If you’d like to join in on the Assistive Technology Challenge, the competition will be open on Thingiverse until November 1st, 2015.

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