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Body category Alzheimer100 is a project that has used creative solutions to the challenges presented by dementia by turning health workers and people living with dementia into co-designers. | Work category Mor-power is a portable carabineer solar panel that follows a “buy one - gift one” system. For every sold product, one is gifted to countries in poverty. | Community category Familiar even to the U.S. art audience from its appearance in a show at the Museum of Modern Art, INVERSAbrane is an exterior membrane and infrastructure that can cleanse air, recycle water and convert light into energy. It's a skin in search of a body, a sustainability solution in search of a trial -- a design in search of implementation. |
Community category Singapore's multi-disciplinary design for a sustainable water supply aims to make the island city-state as nearly self-reliant as possible, through water recycling, rain harvesting, seawater desalination, and catchment augmentation initiatives.
| Body category Herman Potgieter, CTO of Lodox Critical Imaging Technology, talks about how the design work his team initiated to detect diamond theft for the world's best-known diamond company now is saving lives in trauma centers. | PLANET EARTH-Directions for useCommunity category ‘Planet Earth – Directions for use’ is an environmental campaign designed as a comprehensive guide on how to use the planet. |
Body category Pathfinder is a navigational tool for mobile phones designed not only to provide information to a physically or cognitively impaired user but to also offer a range of ways the user can get the data. | Work category e-Charka is a spinning wheel that produces both yearn and electricity. | Body category Malaria Must Go is a system designed to fight malaria. It includes a mosquito killer, vaporizing lamps and bed nets. |
Community category The Universal Generator is a simple device that generates electricity from any kind of rotary motion. | Community category PHILIPS SMILE is a lighting program that combines modern lighting technologies with renewable energies such as solar power in order to change the lives of the many people worldwide who have no access to electricity. | Community category
Paul Sandip's design, nominated for INDEX:Award 2009, is a collapsible one-use mug meant for washing after using public lavatories on India's trains. It is inexpensive, holds more than a liter of water and disintegrates less than an hour after use, answering price, hygiene and waste-disposal challenges. |
WOOLWORTHS "Making the Difference Through Design" ProgramCommunity category Woolworths “Making the Difference Through Design” Program is a project that supports design education in South Africa. | WHALEPOWER TUBERCLE TECHNOLOGYCommunity category WhalePower Tubercle Technology offers retrofitted blades for wind turbines that increase efficiency and performance while
reducing noise. | Play category (RED)WIRE is a digital music service, which promises subscribers exclusive music by major artists in exchange for $5 a month to fight AIDS. |
Community category The Bambulance Project is dedicated to improving health transport in rural Kenya by providing safe, affordable medical transportation in the form of a bicycle-pulled stretcher made primarily from strong bamboo. Locally manufactured and distributed, the project also seeks to develop skills and provide economic opportunities within the communities it serves. | Body Category Pill Time is a simple and user-friendly pill management system that automatically loads the pills and has a safety lock to prevent accidental overdose. | Work category Creative Pitch is an effort to get art materials that might be discarded by professional designers into public schools' art programs. The name in American English is a play on the "creative pitch" an agency or designer makes to a client for work and "pitch" as a term for throwing out something unwanted. |
Body category When designer Hugh Gill joined the i-LIMB team, one challenge was getting a "tendon" into this prosthetic hand from Touch Bionics that could hold 75 pounds of weight. In 40-thousandths of an inch. | Play category The Penguin Army is an online community that creates awareness among young people and call to action in the fight against global warming.
| Body category The Medilabel Safety System© is system for labeling medicine designed to prevent medication errors in hospitals. |
Work category The Center of Appropriate Technology (GrAT/Gruppe Angepasste Technologie) at the Vienna University of Technology developed an integrated concept for sustainable building with its "S-House." In an attempt to achieve best-practice standards of such work, the structure is made of natural materials including straw, wood, clay, and bio-plastics. | THE FREEPLAY FETAL HEART RATE MONITORBody category The Freeplay Fetal Heart Rate Monitor works off-grid, where there's no electricity to support a delivery. The Washington Post reports that some 500,000 women die annually in childbirth, often from causes that could be prevented with basic care. Getting an aid like this into the hands of midwives in the developing world can mean the difference in life and death, both for mothers and infants. | Community category Although it's the size of a fingertip, this bulb is powerful enough for area, architectural and industrial lighting. Rated to burn for 30,000 hours, the bulb is dimmable to 20 percent, operates in all orientations, has digital controls and doubles the output of high-end LED bulbs through heat management. |
RESUSCITATING THE FEZ RIVERCommunity category Resuscitating the Fez River is a multi-approach rehabilitation plan for the river in Fez, Morocco, that combines solutions to infrastructural problems with solutions to social, economic, and environmental concerns. | Body category Touch Sight is a digital camera for visually impaired people giving them the opportunity to share their photo documented experiences over the Internet. | Community category What puts the "smart" in the name Smart Shelter is the program's insistence that a local population be involved and engaged, creating affordable, durable and eco-friendly structures for which they take responsibility and feel ownership. |
Home category Ecodrain is a heat exchanger that can be easily installed in any new construction or bathroom remodel project. It takes heat from drain water and transfers it to fresh water, preheating it before it gets to the shower. | Play category Recycle Factory is a toy to create paper models with waste paper. It educates children to understand how recycling works and improves their creative skills with sustainability in mind. | Community category Solar Water Plant is a water cleaning system that cleans water without the use of chemicals, firewood, or electricity, preventing waterborne diseases, environmental consequences, deforestation, and CO2 emissions. |
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