Yulindog
Yulindog is a piece of sculpture made from 230 dog bones collected from dog-meat restaurants, markets, and stalls. It was created to advocate for canceling the Dog Eating Festival held in Yulin, China.
Designed by: Danny Li, Minglei Miao, Yu Gao, Yiqiang Liang and Yini Ma of Mcgarrybowen Shanghai for Honeycare
Easy, Affordable Vision Screening for Developing Countries
Access to eye care is taken for granted in the West, but for over 2.5 billion people living in smaller communities in developing countries, little help is available. ClickCheck is an intuitive device for self-diagnosing eyesight. With a production cost of $5, it is cost effective for NGOs to distribute in developing countries. ClickCheck was designed for the social and cultural environment it aims to aid. It is passed from person to person without the need for a professional. The ultra-simplicity and low cost of this solution has made it a success where other vision screening apps or kits have met barriers to entry.
Designed by: Paul Hatch, FIDSA, Andreas Bell, Holly Howes, Ross Brinkman and Eric Wiegman of TEAMS Design for Essilor
Music: Not Impossible
Music: Not Impossible is a wearable vibro-tactile vest that enables deaf and hearing fans to experience concerts together by translating music into tactile vibrations. It consists of a vest, two wristlets, and two anklets with a total of 24 actuators linked to different instruments and sounds that distribute vibrations all over the body. When a drummer hits a bass drum, actuators in the anklets vibrate. The snare drum causes the wristlets to vibrate, and as vocals get louder, vibrations across the tops of the shoulders grow stronger. Wearers may adjust the intensity of the vibrations, which are visually represented via customizable color LED lights.
Designed by: Bresslergroup, Cinco Design and Avnet for Not Impossible Labs
ATLAS | Community-based telehealth for local veterans
Working closely with the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), this community-driven co-creation process brought together key VA leadership, clinicians, veterans, and business partners to gather the deep insights needed to design an enhanced VA telehealth experience. The resulting solution optimizes technology, software, and services to improve veterans’ experience in accessing and adopting telehealth as an adequate and reliable complement to in-office care. The project reimagined how to best deliver clinical care at a distance to make it more convenient for veterans in remote and hard-to-access communities to access the high-quality care they are entitled to.
Designed by: Philips Experience Design Team for Philips
ElectionGuard Voting Machine
The ElectionGuard voting system combines the flexibility and clarity of touch-screen technology with the reliability of printed paper. Voters mark their ballot on a touch screen, print their ballot to verify their choices, and take it to an election official, who scans the printed ballot, which is saved for a paper trail. Hardwired to the system, the printer is covered with a slip-on shroud that obscures, controls, and prevents opportunities for monkey business. It's all open sourced, so any vendor or manufacturer can use or modify any part or all of the system.
Designed by: Tucker Viemeister of Viemeister Industries, Ed Wood, Israel Fuentes and Jean-Pierre Mutti of Radii, and Whitney Quesenbery of Center for Civic Design
Microplastics-Sensing Autonomous Underwater Vehicle
This drone can detect and analyze microplastics and enable scientists to understand where they are originating from, where they are most prominent and how to prevent them from contaminating our waters.
Designed by: Jordan Nollman, Jason Wilbur, Rich Orsini, Matt Bettencourt of Sprout Studios and Robert de Saint Phalle for Draper
Mobile thermoelectric refrigerator
This cost-efficient low-energy mobile refrigerator allows villages in India (the world’s leading milk producer) to store their milk overnight and transport it up to 15 miles to pasteurization facilities.
Designed by: Jordan Nollman, Jason Wilbur, Rich Orsini, Matt Bettencourt of Sprout Studios and Robert de Saint Phalle for Draper
USee: Vision Screening and Prescription Glasses for All
An estimated 2.5 billion people have vision issues correctable with prescription eyeglasses. In developing regions, access to vision care is minimal with roughly one optometrist for every 1 million people. The USee Vision Kit system works through existing local organizations and infrastructure to meet this need. The USee is a portable self-refractive screening tool with variable curvature lenses. As the lenses move vertically in the frame, the prescription viewed through the slit changes. The user simply rotates the dials until they can see clearly. The dial tip aligns with a color-coded number that indicates which lenses to select from the kit. The lenses easily snap into the durable, lightweight frames. The process takes 15 minutes and delivers prescription glasses for less than $5 per pair. This simplicity enables larger-scale vision care by vastly expanding the number of individuals capable of identifying blurry vision and providing prescription eyeglasses.
Designed by: Brian Everett, John Church, and Jane Spikowski of PolyOne IQ Design for Global Vision 2020
Sympfiny
Sympfiny is a system for dosing and oral delivery of multi-particulate, dry powder and microsphere drug formulations in low-resource settings. According to the World Health Organization, almost 3 million children needlessly die from pneumonia and diarrhea each year. Drugs for the treatment of pneumonia are available in developing countries, but not in the recommended dose or formulation. Multi-particulates, nano-sized bead-like drug formulations akin to microspheres, can solve this problem. However, the delivery of multi-particulate drugs to children has previously required unfamiliar procedures and limited one-size-fits-all doses. Sympfiny eliminates these problems because it uses the same method of dosing as traditional oral syringes.
Designed by: HS Design in partnership with Röchling Medical
i-LINK
In 2016, i-LINK founder Chen Shibin spent the summer with local children in the Naqu region of the Tibet Autonomous Region. He noticed that children wore unsuitable shoes, or even no shoes, which severely affected their foot health. Therefore, the i-LINK program was established. Every Duozoulu store continuously donates shoes to a corresponding school in impoverished regions. The program hopes to break geographic distance and establish a true connection with the children to bring them closer to the world with love.
Designed by: Moonwk Culture Technology Co., Ltd
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