Healing Bench is a ingenious disaster relief equipment design that converts from a backpack to an operating bench in second. This unit can hold a blanket and a medical kit in a way that allows medical workers to work in harsh conditions easily. With traditional medical kit, these workers have to deal with troubles in carrying their tools, work hands-free, and the lack of clean area to treat the disaster victims. These men and women risk their lives to try to save countless people, therefore prac...
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Pedro Nakazato has designed Bones orthopedic cast with sensors to capture the muscle activities around the fracture area and stimulate full recovery time of the patient. The main objective of this project is to provide specific information and achievement of the patients based on their level of exercises during the cast period. Bones will simulate the time of recovery based on all the physical activity data of the patient.
Designer : Pedro Nakazato Andrade
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A cool transparent watch, this is what Tokyoflash Kisai Spider LCD Watch offers you. It reminds us to Vain Watch by Tao Ma, yet this one is available for you to buy. It’s an innovative watch design that uses transparent LCD to create illusion that the time is floating on your wrist.
Compared to existing vaccine compartment, Moducool modular vaccine rucksack is more convenient to carry around. The existing vaccine bag only has single vaccine compartment with short single strap and bulky form. There are many communities that are immunized in daily basis in different remote locations. Vaccines have to be kept in a container with optimal temperature of 2° C to 8° C (36°F to 46°F). If at each location, the cool box lid has to be removed to access the required vaccines; that ...
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Hug painless vaccination system will replace those traumatic and painful experiences for children. Hug employs innovative microneedle technology that’s developed at Georgia Technology, Institute Laboratory for drug Delivery. The microneedles dissolve into the capillaries in the dermis without reaching the nerve endings; thus, provide painless delivery. Doctors or parents can place the patch from Hug system on the inner forearm, the vaccination dose is delivered in just under 2 minutes. Once th...
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Tokyoflash Kisai Maru LCD watch is the latest futuristic watch design from Tokyoflash. It features simple interface, a combination of edges and circles, pretty intuitive time display in mirrored LCD.
Medical Shower is not just your ordinary showerhead. It’s been designed with a compartment where you can place traditional Chinese medicine thus enables the water to be infused with herbal remedies before it flows out through your skin. Why Chinese medicine? Well, traditional Chinese herbal medicines have been widely known to have remarkable healing abilities. It is not only meant for consumption; it is also suitable for external applications. Age-old remedies, such as medicinal bath therapies...
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The physically challenged people do have their own desires and aspirations as others, be it walking, climbing, and swimming and so on. Scuba diving is one of many ways for us to experience the world in which we live in. To help these people have their freedom of underwater mobility, a new "Freedom for disabled divers" concept has been proposed. This project confronts an innovative system that controls buoyancy plus trim under water.
The cool aspect about this project is that the physically ha...
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The Aid personal health management device provides the possibility for users who love to be an active member in their community but have difficulty in leaving their homes due to the health issues. This cane-like unit has been designed to become useful ICT device in user’s daily lives where it features services that are integrated with social infrastructure.
The Aid is actually focused to help elderly people and traumatized people who usually don’t have the confidence to step outside their...
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Cautious transportation of amputated body parts appears to be crucial for the successful reattachment process. Accidents may happen anytime, anywhere. At such instances, it is important that amputated body parts must be transported efficiently for reattachment. Cadaver limbs can as well be transplanted on a living patient, and the transportation from a clinic to some other facility should be done accurately for any reattachment surgical treatment to be successful. Well, ETU expanded to Emergency...
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Sliding Wheelchair is ideal for people who are under special care and who find it difficult to move from their bed to the wheelchair. This wheelchair design features an adjustable height with a sliding seat that brings convenience to the chore of moving amid the chair and the bed. This design proves to be highly useful for the caregiver as well as the receiver of the care. Designed with universal design principles, the Sliding wheelchair boasts a moving seat. When the back handle is pushed downw...
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Suffering from food allergy has become quite prevalent these days because of negligence. When a person suffers from food aversion, every meal could potentially be detrimental for him. Foods such as milk, eggs, wheat, peanuts, soy, tree nuts account for nearly 90% of allergic reactions. If the allergy appears to be severe, it could lead to irritations and hives to death. To help people detect such allergens, Erik Borg designed a new device named, the Food Allergen Detector. A strategic design cou...
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Many designers are trying to come up with unique next generation wheelchair concept in order to fall back on conventional materials and technology. The newest wheelchair design concept by Facundo Elias is worth appreciating. In terms of its overall design, the wheelchair features two large wheels for main support, one small wheel behind and a comfortable leg-resting pad. The seat offers real comfort, improving access for caregiver help and as well accommodates various posters that are not provid...
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Standard chest tubes are meant to clear off clots. At times, it becomes difficult to clear off the clots, especially within the body. In order to cope up with this inevitable situation, Clear Catheter Systems projected a system, which would allow clots to be cleared off without breaking the sterile. After a great team effort by surgeons of Clear Catheter, PleuraFlow Active Tube Clearance System was invented. This device incorporates a metal loop inside the tube in order to keep the chest tube cl...
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The First Aid 2.0 is the next generation of first aid kit which refines and redefines the notion of "First Aid". The design features redesigned ergonomic medkit layout and LED lamp running along the bodyline to enhance its presence while providing ample lighting around the area. The front fascia shows the familiar red cross design with touch screen functions embedded in it, providing comprehensive and concise instructions for users to administer first aid in the most efficient way. Instructions ...
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EAZ Disabled Mobility Device concept eliminates the discomfort and disregard of riding a wheelchair that usually physically disabled person experiences. The innovative mobility device actually is a combination of a wheelchair and a walker that revolutionizes the mobility solution of moderately disabled people. Not only disabled person, even the old community can stylishly rely on this concept as their personal transportation solution. This two wheeled mobility device features a self balancing me...
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Berty Bhuruth has designed OPTImetric, a diagnostic tool meant for eye care personnel. This tool was designed keeping in mind the number of people suffering from limited vision. This easy to operate device can be of good use to serve communities by trained locals. This product represents design excellence as it makes accurate measurements of the patient’s pupils rather quickly using vernier calliper technology. People living in rural areas find it increasingly difficult to undergo this eye tes...
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