{"id":3110,"date":"2015-08-07T10:49:39","date_gmt":"2015-08-07T14:49:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/?p=3110"},"modified":"2015-08-07T10:49:39","modified_gmt":"2015-08-07T14:49:39","slug":"at-news-wrap-up-8715","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/?p=3110","title":{"rendered":"AT News Wrap Up, 8\/7\/15"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Your pills can now be printed with a 3-D printer, you can see the world through a bionic eye, and you can build your own prosthetic limb in less-than 5 days. I kid you not, this is real. 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