{"id":3002,"date":"2015-06-02T14:21:30","date_gmt":"2015-06-02T18:21:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/?p=3002"},"modified":"2015-06-02T14:21:30","modified_gmt":"2015-06-02T18:21:30","slug":"vas-prosthetics-and-assistive-technology-challenge-6215","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/?p=3002","title":{"rendered":"VA&#8217;s Prosthetics and Assistive Technology Challenge, 6\/2\/15"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The Veterans Administration Center for Innovation launched the Innovation Creation Series Prosthetics and Assistive Technology Challenge to facilitate development of personalized technologies to improve care and quality of life for veterans. Designers, engineers, and other problem-solvers may submit initial design solutions for several challenges: prosthetic device and controller development, accessible gaming controls, medication adherence technology, and devices to address tremor.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The series will culminate in a two-day make-a-thon in July where submitted designs will be built and tested at the Richmond, VA Medical Center. All the designs submitted as part of this challenge are considered part of the public domain and are open source for anyone to use to help improve the quality of life for individuals with disabilities.\u00a0 To learn more, visit <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.innovation.va.gov\/challenge\/\"><span style=\"color: #0563c1;\">http:\/\/www.innovation.va.gov\/challenge\/<\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\">.<br \/>\n<\/span> <span style=\"color: #000000;\"><i>Source: Mid Atlantic ADA Center<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"al2fb_like_button\"><div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\n(function(d, s, id) {\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1&appId=149587675112835\";\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n}(document, \"script\", \"facebook-jssdk\"));\n<\/script>\n<fb:like href=\"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/?p=3002\" layout=\"standard\" show_faces=\"true\" share=\"false\" width=\"450\" action=\"like\" font=\"arial\" colorscheme=\"light\" ref=\"AL2FB\"><\/fb:like><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Veterans Administration Center for Innovation launched the Innovation Creation Series Prosthetics and Assistive Technology Challenge to facilitate development of personalized technologies to improve care and quality of life for veterans. Designers, engineers, and other problem-solvers may submit initial design solutions for several challenges: prosthetic device and controller development, accessible gaming controls, medication adherence technology, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,36,27,14,31,29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3002"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3002"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3002\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3003,"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3002\/revisions\/3003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}