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Home category The intelligent electricity meter transfers domestic power consumption data to the user’s computer, so the user can check online and in real time how much his fridge, his washing machine, or his hi-fi stereo system actually consume (in terms of watts, kWh, and money). Thus, the user has complete cost control and may easily find electricity guzzlers. The customer can control consumption and use electricity more efficiently. | 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. | Home category The $700 House is a demountable house that can be built in two days by inexperienced workers. |
Play category ‘City Invader’ is a game that utilizes a public institution building after office-hours, by restoring the building’s exterior into a recreational space. | Play category PeaceMaker is a video game that can be used to promote dialog and understanding among Israelis, Palestinians, and people around the world. | Community category The Alluvial Sponge Comb is designed to slow down and help block floodwaters by absorbing, rather than resisting, the moisture. It is made of super-absorbent mateterial and formed in seaweed-like configurations, almost whimsical to see. |
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. | 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 Street Swags is a bed and a bag designed to provide more comfort, warmth and protection from weather for people living on the street. |
Home category What Frederick Kruger and Anastasios Calantzis have created in the Arivi Paraffin Stove is designed for low-income households as a safe, efficient and clean-burning answer to the raging shack fires that annually affect more than 60,000 South Africans and cost the country an estimated $10 billion each year. | Home category Among INDEX:Award 2009 finalist awards already in production and widely available, the Magno radio is meant to personalize communications technology. Its distinctive case is crafted of wood harvested from Indonesian plantations near the designer's home in Kandangan and his company employs local young craftsmen to make the radio. | 3B CART IN THE RAMPMATE SYSTEMWork category Based in a philosophy of examining the "in-between" areas of vulnerability in industrial systems, CPH Design's 3B cart integrates baggage handling with other airport operations to speed luggage to the right place, reduce lost and damaged bags, improve security, staff conditions and airline safety. |
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. | 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. | Body category SizeChina has created the first 3D digital database of Chinese head and face shapes based in a little-recognized set of differences in how Asian and Western apparel are made to fit. |
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Kiva.org is the world’s first person-to-person micro-lending Web site, empowering people to lend directly to unique, small entrepreneurs in many parts of the world. At the site, you read about many entrepreneurs who would like loans, decide what you'd like to lend -- and you're paid back. | Work category The Story of Stuff is an interactive website and a web-based documentary about the life-cycle of goods and services. | 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. |
Body category The X-Finger® is the world’s first active-function artificial finger assembly designed specifically for partial finger amputees. The device allows users to regain complete control of the flexion and extension movements of an artificial finger in a self-contained device. | 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. | GREEN BUILDING PRODUCTS FROM FLYASHHome category Green building products look and perform like normal building products, but are made of fly ash, a waste by-product of coal power plants |
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. | 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. | 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. |
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. | 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. | DESIGN INDABA 10x10 LOW COST HOUSING PROJECTHome category The sandbag house is a low cost house designed for residents of the Freedom Park in Cape Town, South Africa, as a part of the Design Indaba 10x10 Low Cost Housing Project. |
Community category ¡GuateAmala!, is a vision and multi-year communications strategy designed to create optimism in Guatemala. | Community category The Voice Labeler with frequent contact list is a software tool that enables illiterates to manage their contact list on a mobile phone. | 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. |
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