Didrick’s innovative X-Finger replaces missing fingers

Dan Didrick, CEO of Didrick Medical, has developed steel-and-plastic prosthetic fingers dubbed the X-Finger, which won him second place in a national invention contest sponsored by the History Channel and the National Inventors Hall of Fame Foundation. Around 2,500 submissions were filed for the event. The novel device is not based on any modern technology as it is non-robotic and doesn’t work on any microchips. Instead, the X-Finger is power driven by the person’s own normal movements once the residual stump comes into contact with the plunger inside the X-Finger. The X-Finger works from the knuckle rather than from the tip. Didrick says: I’m proud of what I’ve done. I can only hope what I’ve made can also help change as many lives. Didrick has currently funding for just 100 fingers to be made per month that sends the cost per finger up to $10,000. Didrick says he needs at least $11 million to fulfill the demand of X-Finger. Via: Nerdgrind / Trendhunter