Medical innovations from left field ideas

Healthcare is a highly specialized field which has revolutionized we think and live our lives. Over the century healthcare domain has provided innumerable innovations.
When we look around some of the amazing products, it is quite evident that boundaryless thinking is the core to some of the innovations.

Here are couple of stories which reinforces the fact that ideas outside one’s one boundaries act as best inspiration :

Heart devices from indigenous art
Indigenous art form is used by women in Bolivia to help develop device used in heart treatments

 Student uses Lego to build a prosthetic arm
David Aguilar from Andorra uses his passion for Lego to build a prosthetic arm 

You will also be interested in earlier post on Artificial Voice box inserter

ResonVate Thought
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Reference

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/2674640
https://www.greatbigstory.com/stories/the-life-saving-weaving-of-bolivia-s-aymara-women
https://www.greatbigstory.com/stories/building-diy-prosthesis-from-lego