To anyone that's ever broken a bone, the negatives of traditional plaster casts are familiar: they're cumbersome, heavy, and can get rather smelly. Victoria University of Wellington graduate Jake Evill is looking to change all that with his Cortex cast.
The Cortex would be 3D printed on site, according to Evill, and each cast would be most dense near the location of a wearer's fracture.
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