YOU FUNDED 50 BIONIC ARMS! ft The Yogscast, Tilly Lockey - The impact of Jingle Jam

Hello everyone, we're here at Open Bionics for Big Hero Arm Day where they've got a big delivery of new arms. This was all funded by your very kind JingleJam donations. These guys make 3D-printed prosthetic hands and arms. They're incredibly complex and cool. It's really interesting and really awesome, and we wanted to just come and see what it was all about and thank you guys for supporting JingleJam.

I'm Joel. I'm the CEO and co-founder of Open Bionics, who make the Hero Arm. The Hero Arm is a bionic arm made using 3D printing that enables somebody with upper limb loss to move the fingers and do some of the day-to-day things that they might struggle with having one hand or no hands. And it also enables them to express themselves because it's got these covers where you can have different designs and colors. Change the way that it looks day to day to suit your outfit.

I'm with Tilly. Hi! You have robotic arms.

I do indeed.

JingleJam, you guys helped fund 50 of these bad boys.

Well, I started working or just testing Open Bionics' tech when I was 9. I'm now 18, so that's literally been like half my life ago, which is absolutely wild. But when I first put on the prototype for the first time, I think the main thing I felt was just empowerment.

JingleJam's been a monumentally huge influence influence on the progress of the product and the company and the community. In the earlier years when we were first bringing the product to market, there was no NHS funding whatsoever. 95% of people that were getting these kind of prosthetics were having charitable support. You know, that was funding a huge, huge number of patients.

It's really, really cool. I mean, even me, I've been wearing them for ages, and when I talk about them and when I wear them and use them, even I'm still excited by like what they could do. I'm like, oh, they move, like it's according to my muscles. Like, that's cool. That is incredible.

These are amazing. Can I shake your hand?

Yeah.

Oh, very solid. Boom.

Okay, it's cool that people get excited by it. It's cool.