EMBRACE INFANT WARMER
People's Choice Award 2011, BODY Category What is the problem?Twenty million premature and underweight babies are born a year and four million of them die. Babies that survive often grow up with...
View ArticleClearRx system
Body category How did this design improve life?: By the time an object, or an apartment, or a company hits the half-century mark, it’s usually been through a redesign or two. The post ClearRx system...
View ArticleSolar pasteurisation unit
Body category Short description of design: No water means no life. AIDS infected breast milk infects babies. You can't find wood where poor people live. This portable solar pasteurisation unit cleans...
View ArticleBio Rubber
Body category Short description of design: A Rubber material with characteristics of human tissue – and therefore with a potential force to replace this. Basically this is an elastic polymer for use in...
View ArticleVivid-i
Body category Short description of design: Vivid-i is the first premium-performance cardiovascular PC-based Ultrasound system in a laptop-like platform, weighing in at 5Kg, with battery operation for...
View ArticleORBIS Flying Eye Hospital
Body category Short description of design: The design is comprised of a series of discrete spaces within the aircraft. Each space was custom architected according to the special needs of training,...
View ArticleHealthNet
Body category Short description of design: HealthNet is an Infrastructure connecting medical professionals wherever they are with those who support them and those they serve. It processes information,...
View ArticleCLEVER SYRINGE WARNS YOU OF PRIOR USE
ABC’S: A BEHAVIOUR CHANGING SYRINGE, INDEX: AWARD 2013 FINALIST. A recent study conducted by the WHO indicates that each year, unsafe needle injections cause an estimated 1.3 million early deaths and...
View ArticleTumbleweed toy seeks and destroys land mines
MINE KAFON, INDEX: AWARD 2013 FINALIST. There are presently in excess of 110 million deadly mines hidden underground, silently and surreptitiously waiting to kill thousands of lives ever year. Afghan...
View ArticleMobile games teach women and children vital survival skills
HALF THE SKY: MOBILE GAMES, INDEX: AWARD 2013 FINALIST. More people have access to mobile phones than they do toilets, and mobile gaming is one of the fastest growing industries in the world. Now, the...
View ArticleDanish playgrounds fight obesity with active play
MONSTRUM’S IMAGINARY PLAYGROUNDS, INDEX: AWARD 2013 FINALIST. Ironically, more often than not playgrounds aren’t very playful. So it is little surprise that kids gravitate towards computer games, and...
View ArticleTRIO OF LIFE-SAVING DEVICES REDUCE CHILDBIRTH MORTALITY
INDEX: Award Winner 2013, BODY Category Two of the UN's Millennium Development Goals are to reduce child and maternal mortality by 2015. Norwegian product developers have designed a trio of highly...
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