Author: Jen Owen - e-NABLE Volunteer

This website, enablingthefuture.org, is the personal, privately-run website of Jennifer Owen. Jen is the sole owner of the website and it does not represent any other organization or individual. She has been a volunteer and participant in the field of open-source, 3D printed prosthetic hands for the past 3 years. Along the way, she has sought to highlight and document stories on the topic of low-cost prosthetics from around the world, as well as to create an information resource for people interested in learning more about the history, design & fabrication of these devices. The perspectives, stories and viewpoints expressed on this website do not represent any individual or external entity other than Jennifer Owen. enablingthefuture.org is not a non-profit entity - but merely a website where Jen shares stories about 3D printed assistive devices from the grassroots, open source community called e-NABLE and others who are using 3D printing technology to change the lives of others.

Feel Good Stories / Giving Back / Hands Created / Personal stories / Spreading the Word

A Hand For Ben

Benjamin was born in February of 2002 with congenital birth defects and a left hand anomaly. At the age of 4, he was diagnosed with high functioning Autism. He is …

E-Nable GOOGLE+ / Events and Media / In the News / Informational / Spreading the Word

E-Nable at Science Online 2014

“If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an …

Events and Media / Spreading the Word

SketchFab Fun!

Want to go play with one of the hand designs and look at in 3D? Go visit the Sketchfab website where you can grab the Talon hand, spin it around, …

Design improvements / E-Nable GOOGLE+ / Feel Good Stories / Hands Created / Research and Development / Spreading the Word

E-Nabling Young Minds

“The best ideas lose their owners and take on lives of their own.” – N. Bushnell Over the past year and a half, what started as two men with a …

Design improvements / Feel Good Stories / Giving Back / Hands Created

The “Talon Hand”

A Father, who saw a Youtube video of two men creating a prosthetic mechanical hand for a little boy named Liam in South Africa who was born with no fingers …

E-Nable GOOGLE+ / Events and Media / Feel Good Stories / Hands Created / In the News / Informational

Distributing The Future

“There’s something about that moment when it goes from being a thing I’m holding up – to a part of my body… that’s almost magical.” – Peregrine Hawthorn Earlier this …

Feel Good Stories / Giving Back / Personal stories / Spreading the Word

E-nabling your Neighbors

I was thinking the other day about when I used to watch “Little House on the Prairie” as a child and how when someone was sick and needed help or …