Do you know that lung disease affects more than 7-million children in the U.S alone? Lung is a very sensitive organ in children especially when they are growing. Most often than not, any damage can be permanent, that’s why proper monitoring and tracking of children lung health can be considered very important in supervision the health of affected children. Spirometer is a tool used to measure the amount of air inspired and expired by the lungs. At this moment there are many digital models for ...
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Transferring patients from bed to wheelchair or vice versa can be pretty difficult. Medirobot or Medical Robot Assistant can intuitively transfer patients in hospital efficiently without the need of an extra wheelchair. This robot lifts patients easily, it will drastically reduce physical efforts for the caregiver. Doctors and nurses can read any crucial patient’s health information through the robot’s body because it serves as information terminal for the patient as well.
Medirobot was t...
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Tokyoflash Kisai Uzumaki analog watch was design concept from one of Tokyoflash fans, Firdaus Rohman, that received many great comments enough to convince Tokyoflash to bring this concept watch to reality. Well, we agree that this watch is indeed very cool with its unique vortex shaped lens, colorful spiral display and bright EL backlighting.
People who have lost their kidney functions should have dialysis procedure at least 3 times a week in order to treat kidney failure. This treatment performs many things that usually are done by healthy kidneys, it can take like several hours to run this procedure, thus limit the ability for patients to have flexible lifestyle. Mobilysis is an innovative concept portable dialysis system for patients who don’t have the time to run dialysis procedure several hours 3x/week. Using this system patie...
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The Parafree wheelchair is a sporty core-body training machine for paraplegics with the outstanding benefit of comfort in everyday use. Its design language and structure support active users in self-confidence and independence as you already know, sport can be a passion and helps reduce depression. Sport inspires hope and eases disappointments. This concept wheelchair compels the paralyzed user to keep balance permanently.
The unique and minimalist frame structure of this wheelchair is made o...
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Tokyoflash has released a limited edition Kisai Optical Illusion Watch that requires trained eyes to read the time. If you like a little challenge to read the time, then you probably would love to have this touch screen LED watch that displays time through a maze of high resolution diagonal lines.
Ecko Prosthetic Leg is an artistic prosthetic leg designed for graffiti artist or a bicycle messenger. One of many difficult challenges that amputees have to deal with is to regain the feeling of being normal, this is pretty difficult since they have lost the ability to do many things that they never thought about before. Their body has become asymmetric and people notice this. This prosthetic leg design aims to ease both emotional and physical transition that they have to go through after losin...
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Wind Capsule system has been designed with a vision that in the future, humans will on the ocean and they’ll need various resources to supply their energy needs. The industrial designer got his inspiration when he had the chance to visit Netherlands, a country with unusual geography where much of its land has been reclaimed from the sea and is below sea level. Standing on this land, it made him wonder if it’s possible for humans to live at a great distance from land.
Designer : Chen Xingn...
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Utilizing the technique of distillation, Watertube can provide sanitary water to many people in remote area. It is a handy tool not just to filter but also store the water for future use. We are going to face water shortage issue if we don’t have better water management strategies because we use water faster than it can be replaced. Yes, we know that 75% of our Earth’s surface is covered by water, however, do you know that only 2.5% of it is fresh water? And only 0.3% of that water can be fo...
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The main inspiration of Comb Multifolding Wheelchair came from the limitation of space which will be unavoidable in the future. This concept wheelchair features innovative folding mechanism that enables its user to easily store when not in use or when traveling by car. This industrial designer plans to use ultra light yet very durable materials (such as aluminum, carbon fiber or titanium) to construct this wheelchair. If you take a look at its seat structure, you’ll understand where the "Comb"...
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Swingo walking aid is an innovative hands-free walking aid for a temporary leg-injured user. I love sports, however, these activities can accidentally damage my leg such as sprains and strains, dislocations, or fractures. Trust me, leg pain affects your daily routine as you need to walk everywhere, but this concept walking aid enables you to conveniently engage in your daily activities despite your injury. It can help with various injuries ranging from minor injuries like sprain and ankle to the...
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The Mobi electric folding wheelchair is a powered mobility device designed to meet the lifestyle requirements of our aging population. Mobi reflects the future of products for an aging population. Stylish and convenient, it offers urban mobility alternative to bulky, generic electric scooters.
For added versatility, the design of the wheelchair features an innovative folding mechanism that allows it to be folded up and stored and transported in a vehicle without any need for disassembly. To e...
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This Wheel+Chair concept is very innovative, it transforms your own chair into a fully functional wheelchair. By utilizing user’s own chair, the production and transportation cost of this unit will drastically reduce, a wheelchair without a chair. There are still many disabled people who can’t afford a wheelchair, especially in the world’s poorest regions. Even the cheapest wheelchair can be very expensive for them.
Designers : Prof. Ying Fangtian, Sun Xin, Peng Junjie, Luo Zhening, Gu ...
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Disabled people can enjoy touring bicycle racing with Ultra Long Distance Wheelchair. This wheelchair design features the same principles of performance and sturdiness which are used in designing touring bicycles. The main objectives when designing this wheelchair were to provide comfort and optimal performance for its user, it has to be more than just an aspirational stylistic experiment. To push the wheelchair along, tracking motion is required and comfort of the user is paramount.
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Smart First Aid Kit has been designed to allow and encourage patients (critical to everyday patients) to become e-patients. Using Smart First Aid Kit, user is able to utilize great potential of the e-patient network and perform self triage. When you have ankle sprain, this kit can help you measure the swelling and inflammation of your ankle in real time and compare the results to others on the e-patient network to know how bad your injury is.
This first aid kit has utilized Footfalls & He...
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Tom Hudson has shared with us his hearing aid concept called, Hear Aid. The objective of this project was to develop a product where children with hearing impairment can wear this aid without having to be afraid of being stigmatized in the areas of their deafness.
Designer : Tom Hudson
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Here’s one of great attempts to design future Health Assistant Device from Rochus Jacob. The interface of this medical device features a cell-phone-like display to provide patients access to their health information. Using this device, patients can synchronize their medical data with an external server where their doctors can also monitor their patients progress and optimize the treatment.
This Health Assistant Device features dual layer where the outside layer works just like a cellphone w...
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