Danish 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...
View ArticleCan plants replace eggs?
The same way that INDEX: Award 2013 Finalist Beyond MeatTM has created artificial meat from plants, a San Francisco start-up company claims to have found a replacement for eggs. The startup is housed...
View ArticleThe Good Kitchen
INDEX: AWARD CASE. 30% of all elderly in nursing and care homes are malnourished due to social, psychological, and physical factors. The service design solution The Good Kitchen is aiming to improve...
View Article10.000 HAPPY BIRTHDAYS
Laerdal Global Health continues to save the lives of mothers and infants. The INDEX: Award 2013 winners are using their award money to roll out training programs for midwifes in Africa and establish...
View ArticleLIFESAVING STATISTICS
We all see them, the statistics that shows all the bad news of the world. The amounts of refugees, the thousands of people loosing dear ones due to traffic, the amount of food we waste. Well, there is...
View ArticleBILL GATES NEEDS HELP!
That’s a new one – normally Bill Gates seems quite capable in quite many fields. However, the fact is that Bill Gates needs help. At a recent TED Talk he said, that our general inability to respond...
View ArticleFoldscope: 50c paper microscope to revolutionise health education and...
Made from a single sheet of paper, the Foldscope optical microscope can be easily, cheaply and sustainably mass-produced and distributed. A number of developing countries around the tropical belt –...
View ArticleEmbracing Life: Cooling Cap Protects Chemo Patients From Hair Loss
The Embracing Life scalp-cooling cap helps sustain the quality of life for cancer patients facing chemo-induced hair loss. Personal appearance is not the largest worry during a battle with cancer, but...
View ArticleSmart Contact Lenses: A tiny chip to change the lives of diabetics
Eliminate the pain, time, and inconvenience of checking blood glucose levels for diabetics. No more blood, only tears. Smart Contact Lenses measure the glucose levels in tear fluid rather than...
View ArticleIKO: Kids customise their own prosthetics with LEGOs
What’s better than your own limb? A superhero multi-function one that you created yourself. Kids use their imagination to make new limbs a reality. Whether born with a deformity or victim to an...
View ArticleVentum: Room to breathe – the future of pediatric respiratory treatment
Ventum gives children with breathing difficulties the freedom to live, laugh and play with a compact respirator in the form of a backpack. Ventum functions the same as a traditional respirator, but is...
View ArticleDESIGN TO IMPROVE LIFE HEADLINES – MAY 3
‘Design to Improve Life’ headlines this week: designing the perfect donor cells to help beat cancer, cruelty-free leather made from tropical fruit, and a new app by Samsung that will allow parents to...
View ArticleKIDS OF ELSINORE TO ADDRESS THE CITY’S HEALTH
The design brief for the second Design to Improve Challenge in Elsinore is up! This time, the city’s youth will be coming up with new solutions to improve health… “Health is a state of complete...
View ArticleELSINORE’S CHALLENGE: THE PROJECTS ARE IN!
To improve the city’s health, the youth of Elsinore have come up with some amazing design solutions – ranging from exercise initiatives for the elderly to apps that curb smoking. This year, students of...
View ArticleLIFESAVING STATISTICS
We all see them, the statistics that shows all the bad news of the world. The amounts of refugees, the thousands of people loosing dear ones due to traffic, the amount of food we waste. Well, there is...
View ArticleBILL GATES NEEDS HELP!
That’s a new one – normally Bill Gates seems quite capable in quite many fields. However, the fact is that Bill Gates needs help. At a recent TED Talk he said, that our general inability to respond...
View ArticleFoldscope: 50c paper microscope to revolutionise health education and...
Made from a single sheet of paper, the Foldscope optical microscope can be easily, cheaply and sustainably mass-produced and distributed. A number of developing countries around the tropical belt,...
View ArticleEmbracing Life: Cooling Cap Protects Chemo Patients From Hair Loss
The Embracing Life scalp-cooling cap helps sustain the quality of life for cancer patients facing chemo-induced hair loss. Personal appearance is not the largest worry during a battle with cancer, but...
View ArticleSmart Contact Lenses: A tiny chip to change the lives of diabetics
Eliminate the pain, time, and inconvenience of checking blood glucose levels for diabetics. No more blood, only tears. Smart Contact Lenses measure the glucose levels in tear fluid rather than...
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