Exoskeleton designed for safety with lifting patients. Lean on me. Designed by Erik Ulises Lanuza This post comes to you straight from the heart, because I have been in a situation where I have had to care for my mother each time she had her joints replaced. I’m talking about 2 hips and 2 knee replacement surgeries! Professionals like nurses and physiotherapists or family members like me, who have to look after such patients need to take extra care [read more]
Yanko Design created an image that has been used in various articles this month. Some like this one seen on Singularity Hub discussed monitoring of our bodies by way of computer hardware built in. The image seen here became more than just a sarcastic design image. Jerry Jalva is a computer hacker. He lost his finger in a motorcycle accident with a deer and decided to replace the digit with a USB drive. His silicone prosthetic has the drive housed [read more]
Designer Jeong Hoon Cha Too Weak to Open Caps. Need a U-Cap Plastic caps were designed to keep liquids in. Then at the last minute somebody realized people actually have to remove them to get to the liquid so they threw on some groves around the cap for grip and called it a day. Bah I say! I will admit sometimes I can’t do it! That cap just won’t let go. Maybe I need a U-Cap. There’s a soft asymmetric [read more]
Voice Stick Braille is still the standard when it comes to helping the visually impaired read. Unfortunately translating text into braille is costly and time consuming thus the disproportionate number of braille books. Voice Stick is an advance optical character recognition scanner designed to make all books available to the visually impaired. As you pass the wand over a page, text in translated and read to you in a friendly voice. It can be used to convert any text from [read more]
Those of you plugged into the post modern scene know the name Eames. The duo that brought us molded plywood in every shape and form is aped left and right by today’s designers. That aesthetic could be translated into almost anything as demonstrated by designer Joanna M. Hawley and her Prosthetic Leg concept. Most prosthethics are cumbersome looking, ugly, and lack humanity. This new leg starts by a 3D laser scan to generate a point cloud from which data is [read more]
You may not put much thought into it but it takes a symphony of small muscles in your hand to operate a pen/pencil. For some people this is beyond their ability so designer Oskar Daniel set out to create a pen the Easy Writer. A pen or graphite tip is inserted into a small hourglass shaped holder which provides all the support. The rubberized knob makes it easy to grip with your palm to move the pen. Effort is powered [read more]
The difference between Alzheimer’s and normal age-related memory changes Memory loss. Forgetting recently learned information is one of the most common early signs of dementia. A person begins to forget more often and is unable to recall the information later. What’s normal? Forgetting names or appointments occasionally. Difficulty performing familiar tasks. People with dementia often find it hard to plan or complete everyday tasks. Individuals may lose track of the steps to prepare a meal, place a telephone call or [read more]
Implanting an eye-mounted camera inside your head might be, for some of you, a crazy thought. Tany Vlach, who lost her eye in a car accident, disagrees. She wants to embed a small webcam into the ocular cavity which will capture and save all incidents Tanya encounters. Even though her artificial eye is an excellent aesthetic replacement, the reason behind this project is to “enhance the abilities of [her] prosthesis for an augmented reality,” she says. Vlach isn’t the first [read more]
“Even inside a hospital, a sick person is not a patient if she doesn’t have an admitting physician, a diagnosis and a numbered plastic wristband.” An extremely interesting look at visitor turned patient from Theresa Brown. Check out the full article on Well in the New York Times Health blog.
How would you like to know how an attorney views your marketing materials? What is the difference between the trash can and the attorney picking up the phone to call you? Ben Glass is one of the plaintiff personal injury attorneys who understands the new marketing model. In addition to running a successful practice, Ben has a thriving coaching program to teach attorneys how to more effectively market themselves. He shares many of his techniques in an easy to read [read more]
