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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. | 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 It’s the girth of an average honeybee. 6.40 millimeters. The standard wasp is two to three times larger. And what this design is made to do is prevent costly attacks on bee hives by wasps. |
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. | 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. | 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. |
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. | BETTER PLACE ELECTRIC VEHICLE (EV) SERVICECommunity category The vision of a universal switch from "gas-guzzling" petrol-powered vehicles to more energy-efficient electric ones can't become reality, many say, until electrical charging is as easy to access as your local filling station. Better Place has designed a systemic concept for a vast network of power supply and other services. | Home category What began as Tokyo fashion designer Issey Miyake's concern about paper waste has become a chair hand-crafted with organic simplicity -- the seat of a new message of re-invention, human ingenuity, delicate beauty and a meeting of minds between not one, but two designers. |
CHILDBIRTH ASSISTANCE OUTSIDE HOSPITALSBody category The Childbirth Assistant is a set of basic equipment designed to make childbirth outside hospitals safer and more comfortable. | Home category The Chulha is a stove designed to limit the dangerous health conditions caused by traditions of indoor cooking in many rural areas of the developing world. | 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. |
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. | 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
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. |
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Drivers of Change is a box set of cards identifying some of the leading drivers of change that affect the future in order to raise awareness and educate. | Work category e-Charka is a spinning wheel that produces both yearn and electricity. | 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. |
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 | Work category Home Phototheray is a simple medical system to treat infants with jaundice at home. | 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. |
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. | Work category
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. | 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. |
LUNAR-RESONANT STREETLIGHTSCommunity category
Anton Willis' design uses white LEDs to provide the light source for street lights which sense and respond in brightness to the phases of the moon. The arc of the shape is inspired by the lunar analemma, a geometrical diagram of the moon's movement. | 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. | Body category Malaria Must Go is a system designed to fight malaria. It includes a mosquito killer, vaporizing lamps and bed nets. |
Body category The Medilabel Safety System© is system for labeling medicine designed to prevent medication errors in hospitals. | 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 Open Green Map is a system of interactive maps that explore and highlight local green living sites. |
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