Frenz Infusion System incorporates infusion pump into a stylish bag to improve patient’s experience under medical treatment. As part of the treatment, many patients need to be infused with liquid medicine, especially those who are under chemotherapy. This fact makes infusion pump becomes one of the most significant and familiar medical equipment in hospitals. However, although its functions are being improved, there is a lack in the design, which is meant more for adults than kids. As the result, young patients aged from two to thirteen years old have to face with undesired problems when using the product.
Improvement in the design of the infusion pump will not only change the patients’ experience in the hospitals but also facilitate their treatment. The goal of this project is to offer the new infusion pump design for sick children as a friendly and useful companion is the aim of this project.
Frenz was designed to answer the question “how to make the infusion systems more comfortable to use for children in the hospital?” At the same time, that object should be something familiar with children to relieve them from the feelings of being under medical treatment and easy to be carried around. The idea of a backpacked set of infusion pump was chosen, as a school bag, this product is a familiar object since children carry it every time they go to school. Moreover, it is normal for other people to see a kid wearing a backpack anywhere.
Designer : Hien Mai Doan
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Sudden Cardiac Arrest or SCA kill many lives every year, mostly because proper medical response can’t be delivered in time. It inspires the concept Heart Aid, an emergency response unit for elderly people for household use. if you can perform CPR and defibrillation to the victim for the first 3-5 minutes of an attack, the rate of survival would be pretty high, unfortunately there are not many people understand how to perform that life-saving first aid.
Designer: Sahar Madanat Haddad
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Children are afraid of the doctor for many reasons, some of those reasons would the cold an strange medical equipment as well as environment. TouchWarm is a concept diagnostic device that adds unique interaction during the diagnosis process to eliminate the fear factor in children’s mind. Cold stethoscope doesn’t feel comfortable when it touches your skin, children feel the same way. This device features heating platform when children choose to press the button, it will warm the stethoscope. There are multiple light pattern to choose, such as: an egg, chicken egg hatching, a snail, chicken and butterfly, etc. By choosing this pattern, the stethoscope will also emit the same light pattern, pretty cool isn’t it?
Designers : Todd Chou and Yihan Lee
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Holographic Psychology device is certainly a modern medical device to help psychologist detect patient’s neurological damage, if any. Our conventional neurological examination requires EEG to measure brain activity, this equipment contains all exams from the Halstead-Reitan Neuropsychological Battery and transforms them into holographic display to test various parts of brain. The feedback will be shown automatically in real-time for better and more accurate examination.
Designer : Yansel Herrea
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The design of Smart Chair was born out of simple design and innovative mechanism to remove the stigma of “medical device” from mobility aid. Minimalist design is applied to overall body and seat, but the seat is a bit modern with futuristic touch without sacrificing user safety. The exterior structure is constructed of lightweight magnesium frame, a material which is both light and strong thus drastically reducing vehicle’s weight. The design that enables the body and the seat to be separated along with reduced weight allow user to enjoy different experience which hasn’t been possible with conventional chair. It can be picked up and loaded into a car or hand carried.
User centered design approach and universal design allows user to drive Smart Chair easily. It can be maneuvered to move in tight spaces, the wheelbase extends outwards on an extension bar as the speed of the wheels increases, creating greater stability. To keep this vehicle visible during the night, it’s equipped with headlights and taillights.
Designers : Kim Jhi Yong, Park Chul Wung, Eom Gi Chen, Jung Jin Seok, Prof. Kim Young Yun, Oh Jung Min, and Chung Sae Ha
As medical technology advances, it improves our health care treatment as well. Take a look at Gluco diabetes management device concept, it’s a wirelessly connected gadget which takes advantage of smartphone connectivity to provide you with better features. Especially designed for young generation (under 25), Gluco helps people with Type 1 Diabetes by understanding and managing their lifestyles to improve their future habits.
Gluco diabetes management device is compact and easy to use, it’s a self sufficient device for an extended period of time. It’s highly portable to allow you to test your blood glucose levels anytime, anywhere in only seconds. For added convenience, you can perform the test using only one hand without interrupting your daily routine. An upward sliding motion prepares both the lancet and dispenses a test strip and within 5 seconds a reading is displayed on the LCD screen.
Designer : Sam Whipp
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The oxygen concentrator Aero is designed primarily for mobile use. Aero Mobile Oxygen helps people with lung defects to supply their body with oxygen. Aero has the advantage that no logistical effort for refilling is necessary. The concentrator has a comfortable handle, a flat design and can easily be integrated into everyday life.
In many cases, patients live 24 hours a day with an oxygen machine but for many people, a big problem is the exposure to the general public. For any outsider it is clear that there must be a very sick person because of the loud, big, heavy equipment. The Aero Mobile Oxygen comes with a practical backpack with which you can control the oxygen concentrator through an integrated remote control. The backpack doesn’t look like a medical device to achieve that the patient feels comfortable in public. To personalize Aero every patient has the possibility to change the cover in different styles.
Designer : Lina Kuroi
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For beginner nursing students, finding a viable vein for injections or IV’s can be really difficult this can lead to more scarring and patient’s traumatic experience. Medical Feather is an innovative medical device concept that allows simple procedures to do intravenous easily and painless. It consists of Doppler ultrasound and thermal patch.
Doppler ultrasound helps finding patient’s veins easily, it saves more time instead of finding it manually. Thermal patch is used to mark the area where medical staff can make proper injection.
Designer : Adrian Borsoï
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Enjoy unique shower or spa experience with Air-curtain Shower Cabin. It is actually a ring shaped shower unit which can also act as a curtain. Instead of using traditional glass walls, this unit covers you with flowing air from a single overhead ring. This large ring device blows air from its underside and releases water from its inner wall surface. The unique air flow system forms an invisible air curtain that prevents water from splashing outside the shower.
Designers : Liu Yi, Luo Jing, Jiang Yuning
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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 with an e-ink touch display to operate the phone. There are several button layouts which can be chosen depending on the user’s experience. Simply slide open the outside layer to reveal your medical data. The minimalist interface prevents user from getting lost in sub menus while in health assistant mode.
Designer : Rochus Jacob
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DibKit diabetes management system has been designed due to skyrocketing health care costs for people with diabetes. This device was designed by people with Diabetes for people with Diabetes and has received red dot award for its high quality concept design. DibKit diabetes management system provides a new way to manage your diabetes care using simple and effective equipment that you can carry anywhere, anytime. Through their extensive research, they found out that dealing with Diabetes means that you have to be ready to handle any situation that may arise while current Diabetes supplies consist too many parts and pieces. It’s very challenging to come up with a solution to help people who suffer from diabetes to have better quality of life.
DibKit diabetes management system consists of DibKit Meter, DibKit Pen and DibKit Pump which together they provide fewer, smarter and more effective diabetes supplies.
Designer : IA Collaborative
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BearHug Inflatable Vest is one of award wining designs from RedDot concept which aims to improve the lives of children with autism. Autism has become growing concern for parents as this disorder affects as many as one in every 91 children in US. Bearhug works by providing evenly distributed pressure to kid’s body with sensors disorders like autism. This firm pressure is believed can help increase focus and attention as well as relieve anxiety. Just like a mother says that her son with autism likes deep pressure, it can calm him down, in fact, sometimes it’s a necessity like oxygen and water. Deep Pressure Therapy (DPT) has also shown great results when used on individual with stress and anxiety or any other mental health disorders.
Designer : Lisa Fraser
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Sol-us disinfectant device aims to create better environment by killing bacteria and germs in the air. This device emits a special HINS-light, a technology that was discovered and developed by Scott MacGregor (an electrical engineer), John Anderson and Michelle Maclean (microbiologists), and Gerry Woolsey (an optical physicist). HINS-light decontaminates the air and any exposed surfaces, it kills pathogens but is harmless to humans.
User has the ability to control how long this device will work from a touch screen panel which reveals different periods of time from 30 mins, 1 hour, 2 hours, 3 hours, and “all time”. The usage of this device is not limited to only inside a refrigerator or a cupboard, user can also use Sol-us disinfectant device to sterilize desk or work area.
Designer : Gatis Erdmanis
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What if there was a way to embed data directly in our food? Edible RFID tag technology is evolving and already in use for medical purposes. We believe that our future technology will enable us to read food information in more visual way. “Nutrismart” is a German industrial designer project in order to trace each product with RFID. This way, shopping at a supermarket will be automated; our home refrigerator will be able to warn us as soon as certain product goes bad.
Designer : Hannes Harms
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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 clear. The open loop allows easy flow of fluid and is extremely effectual at removing clots. PleuraFlow makes use of a wire loop in order to clear off the inside of the tube mechanically. By hastening recovery times and cutting down expensive complications, the utilization of PleuraFlow apparently reduces the price of recovery from important surgeries like heart and lung surgeries.
Designer : Carbon Design
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