(Photos: Phoenix Herpetological Society)In 2013, Mr. Stubbs was an 11-year old, 7-foot long alligator living at the Phoenix Herpetological Society in Arizona. He had lost his tail when he was a baby, so it was very diffi...

3D printing offers unprecedented opportunities to build custom tools at low cost. The organization e-NABLE focuses on one use for this growing technology: building prosthetic hands for children.One of the organization's...

(Photos: Evan Kuester)Evan Kuester, a college student and designer, was looking for a way to apply his studies practically. He noticed a fellow student on campus who was missing a left hand. Kuester hesitated for a while...

Kai Lin, a designer in Brooklyn, developed Klippa, a prosthetic leg for rock climbers. He designed it for American veterans who have lost legs, but would like to continue or take up climbing. Standard prosthetic legs are...

Igor Spetic lost his right hand in a workplace accident. In the below embedded video, he wears a blindfold, earmuffs and a revolutionary new prosthetic hand. He can’t see or hear anything—only feel. But his n...

(Photo: Brittany Sowacke/RedEye)Chicago bar server Levi Kane lost a leg in a motorcycle accident 4 years ago. His modified his prosthetic replacement to make his work a bit easier and more fun:It’s an idea that was...

UPDATE AND CORRECTION 7/2/13: In the comments, Minnesotastan informs us that this is a model of an eye, not a prosthetic. Thanks, Minnesotastan!This impressively detailed prosthetic eye may date to early Seventeenth Cent...

Syphilis, if left untreated, can result in the collapse of the bridge of the nose. This prosthetic nose, displayed by the Wellcome Collection last summer, is an artificial replacement that included a handy pair of specta...