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Body category The Oticon Streamer is a compact bluetooth device that connects a hearing instrument with external sound sources. | 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. | Play category PeaceMaker is a video game that can be used to promote dialog and understanding among Israelis, Palestinians, and people around the world. |
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.
| 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. | Play category When Christien Meindertsma spent three years researching all the products made from a single pig from a farm in the Netherlands, this Rotterdam designer found 185 products contributed to by the animal. She has published her findings in a book titled Pig 05049. |
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. | Home category Pink Project is an art installation addressing the problems that hurricane Katrina has left behind in the New Orleans neighbourhood Lower Ninth Ward. The area was the one hardest hit and were many inhabitants were left devastated and homeless in the wake of the hurricane. | 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. |
Work category These adaptable solar textile kits enable people with no access to electricity to use traditional weaving and sewing techniques to create clothing, blankets, and bags that harvest energy from sunlight. Weighing only 340 grams, a 4-watt solar textile can easily be carried and charges in 3 hours, corresponding to 8 hours of light.
| Body category Project Masiluleke is a HIV Self-Test Kit that combines existing, low-cost diagnostic technologies with mobile support services. | 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 Redsense is an alarm system for monitoring the vein needle during hemodialysis by detecting blood loss from the human body. | 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. | 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. |
Home category Set for three, five or eight minutes, the ShowerMinder uses the internationally recognized traffic signal -- green, yellow and red photovoltaic-charged lights -- to help you keep track of how long you're showering. | 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. | 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. |
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. | 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. | 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. |
Work category tagtype is a keyboard that simplifies typing in Japanese and enables high-speed typing using only the thumbs. | Home category The $700 House is a demountable house that can be built in two days by inexperienced workers. | 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. |
Home category The Good Kitchen is a meal service for senior citizens in Holstebro Municipality, Denmark, and the result of a service design solution. | Work category The Story of Stuff is an interactive website and a web-based documentary about the life-cycle of goods and services. | 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 The Universal Generator is a simple device that generates electricity from any kind of rotary motion. | 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 The Voice Stick is meant to translate printed text into a voice for people who are sight-impaired. Its controls are labeled in Braille. |
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