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
HODOHKUN Guideway
HODOHKUN Guideway is a soft rubber mat used to guide visually impaired people through an interior space. They can recognize the route by feeling the difference between the surface of the mat and the surrounding floor using their foot or cane. Also, since the surface is flat and smooth, wheelchair and stroller users, people who have difficulty walking, the elderly and others can safely pass over it. The color of the mat can be modified to match the surrounding environment for people with low vision.
Designed by: Takahiro Yamada of Ripple Effect Inc. for Kinjo Rubber Co., Ltd.
Hacking STEM
Microsoft Hacking STEM provides affordable inquiry and project-based activities that use everyday materials to visualize data across science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) curriculum. Middle school standards-based lesson plans written by teachers for teachers.
Designed by: Microsoft Hacking STEM Team
Contact: cakling@microsoft.com; aka.ms/hackingstem
Stone Cold Systems – Iceless Vaccine Refrigerator
Current vaccine storage and delivery technologies use unreliable ice-based cooling technologies that freeze the vaccines and result in huge waste. The Stone Cold Systems Electric-10 is an actively cooled ice-less cold-storage device with no risk of freezing. It uses thermoelectric cooling technology to keep vaccines cool, and is powered by a high-performance battery that can be charged by a variety of power sources such as AC mains, DC from vehicles and solar panels.
Designed by: Robert Miros, IDSA, Barley Forsman, James McCrea, Jaquelyn Miyatake and Ramji Rengarajan for 3rd Stone Design Inc.
Play Possible: School Edition
Based on 10 years of research, Play Possible is a deck of cards that presents a framework for applied creativity with more than 45 forms of play possibilities. Each card defines and describes why that specific play element is a power, particularly for a future that requires increased creativity, flexibility and adaptation. Each card provides analogous examples of the play element and provocations to help students and teachers understand and leverage the power in a tangible real-world way. Ultimately, the deck of cards invites participants to create change in themselves and the world through the power of play.
Designed by: Laura Seargeant Richardson and Martha L. Fierro of argodesign for the Kirkwood School District in Kirkwood, MO
Contact: laurasgt@yahoo.com, www.argodesign.com
Haechi
The Haechi is a handheld mobile device for public safety and disaster relief operations, integrating the functionality of a digital two-way radio and a smartphone to deliver secure and resilient voice communication and enable coordinated responses between police, paramedics, fire crews and the military in the event of a disaster. Public Safety LTE is a telecommunications technology for reliable and fast communications in disaster prevention, preparedness, response and recovery efforts. Haechi establishes a converged common network dedicated to 330 public safety agencies nationwide for prompt emergency response
Designed by: Sunwoong Ham and Hakdo Kim of Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
Contact: saejin.cha@samsung.com, www.samsung.com
Raw Factory - Biological Nutrition Control (BNC) Manufacturing Process
Raw Factory envisions an alternative vision of human and nature interactions by proposing an innovative manufacturing
system called Biological Nutrition Control. Raw Factory’s customers are form curators, embracing worms and woodpeckers to reveal organic and artistic forms inside an industrialized system.
The ashtray is an example of how natural processes can offset industrial mass production by harnessing what nature already
does well. It also provides an alternative future for manufacturing.
Designed by: Shihan Zhang
Contact: shihanzhang.design@gmail.com www.shihanzhang.com
ELEVA
ELEVA is an all-in-one wash sink and hand dryer system that can adjust its height to optimize the experience for children and people with disabilities. ELEVA features a mechanical structure that with the simple touch of an LED array, drives the sink and hand dryer up and down to adjust to the user's height. It also has a simple and intuitive user interface.
Designed by: Jingwei Dang
Contact: dangjingwei@gmail.com
High Risk Pregnancy Toolkit
The High Risk Pregnancy Toolkit was designed to reduce maternal and infant mortality. It consists of a checklist, a waterproof pocket-sized booklet, and a dual function bag that when opened becomes a poster to facilitate training and group communication in primary care facilities and in the field when reaching out to pregnant women and their families. It also includes the Heart for 2 fetoscope, a battery-free device that supports the training of midwives and healthcare workers in finding and listening to fetal heartbeats to facilitate the timely referral of at-risk pregnancies. Pregnant women and their families also can listen to the fetal heartbeat to improve the experience of their healthcare visits.
Designed by: Philips Design for International Committee of the Red Cross and Philips Foundation
Contact: inge.wagemakers@philips.com | http://www.philips.com/a-w/foundation/philips-foundation.html