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Concept:
Healthcare Kiosk
Computerized Health Kiosk should have certain basic monitoring systems built in like the steth, Blood Pressure, Blood analysis, First Aid equipment, etc.
This will look like an ATM Machine and has the attachments that the user will be guided to use.
This could optionally have a basic medication dispenser that can give some basic life saving medication and first Aid consumables.
This kiosk can work as a computer guided system or can take assistance of a remote doctor just like tele-medicine.
Concept:
Emergency IV Pack
Attached is a concept for an emergency IV pack. The pack includes a simple electronic pump that monitors and regulates the flow of any IV solution. It works by massaging the solution through the flexible tubing that connects the IV bag to the patient. Although the unit would cost more than the proposed 35 cents (realistically costing around $3.50 to $5), it does not come in contact with any of the IV solution and can be re-used indefinitely. Therefore if the unit was used 10 to 20 times it would make it economically viable and satisfy the original criteria. The proposed design is extremely simple to use and most importantly could be setup quickly by volunteers with little experience. Updated by Leigh Mullin on 2009-03-31
Posted by Leigh Mullin on March 29, 2009, 07:18 PM
Concept:
Biogas tank
I wanted to design a system that would meet health code and be relatively easy and inexpensive to
build. The system is sealed as well as any modern septic system and is built by molding fiberglass around
a surplus weather balloon. A person of moderate mechanical/construction skill could build this system in
a home shop in a matter of weeks.
The purpose of this tank is to take household sewage as input and concentrate the solids in the
fermentation chamber, this is known as dewatering and facilitates efficient fermentation.
Part legend:
1. The main tank is a spherical tank that is probably made out of fiberglass. This tank might be
made by forming the fiberglass around a rubber balloon (at this time I am unable to locate the
proper type of balloon, weather balloons that are common today look too light to serve the purpose).
2. This is a cylindrical partition within the spherical tank that creates the fermentation chamber
in the middle of the tank.
3. This is a rubber diaphram that could be cut from the rubber balloon after the spherical tank
has been formed. This diaphram captures the biogas for use, or the gas can be stored for later use.
4. This is the inlet. The effluent flows into the inlet and into the first chamber where the
solids settle under the cylindrical partition and the liquids are shunted through the liquid isolation
loop(#6)
5. This is the isolation loop. The purpose of the isolation loop is to shunt the liquids away from
the effluent and towards the riser.
6. This is the riser. As the liquid flows through the isolation loop it picks up
spent solids from the bottom of the tank and flushes them up the riser and out the drain.
7. This is the drain assembly.
8. These are vents which are necessary for proper operation of the system.
Caveats:
1. I don't know how well this system would work, it has never been built or tested.
2. I don't know if a health inspector would sign off on this design.
Challenge:
User Research Social Networking Service
Imagine a site where companies could identify products they are bringing to market, and potential users would voluntarily, directly guide their product development.
Too often, user-centered design is still an afterthought in product design. Its costly to do correctly, and the benefits (although very obvious after the fact) are hard to identify, quantify, and communicate. Its practically impossible to do as a one-man programming team, and its still not easy when youve got just a few team members. Enter UR SNS - the user-research focused social networking service.
Companies will post products that they are developing, along with some pre-defined customer markets that they believe to exist. They will post a series of qualitative questions about the niche they are trying to fill.
Users sign up, and pick a product they are interested in using. They self-identify from the list of customer roles that the company predefined, and then proceed to answer the qualitative research questions that the company put together. They can either do a voice recording (which will be transcribed automatically), or type up their notes. At the end of the day, users who fill out these surveys can earn software discounts and reputation points which they can use to boost their profiles visibility on the site.
The software may help the company to conduct qualitative analysis by allowing the company to later hilight quotes and identify key user mental models and behaviors.
This site, while promoting open collaboration and a fun atmosphere, will help to bring down the cost of conducting good user-research. It will encourage users to take an active role in developing their software. It might even be viable for open source projects to use this model to conduct user research - imagine what could happen then? http://jaresty.tumblr.com/post/26844302
Posted by Joshua Aresty on February 21, 2008, 11:37 AM
Concept:
Rhizomatic knowledge building
Rhizomatic design is a concept that i've been working and writing about for a little over a year. It's meant to address the difficulties faced by disparate communities of volunteers working in a single knowledge base without a central organization committee committed to organizing the concepts. Traditionally communities either heavily structure a working environment thereby prescribing what knowledge will be produced, or allowing free range construction which leads to orphaned nodes of knowledge and difficult navigation. The screencast attached describes how a rhizomatic approach could deal with these issues. There are also various other links on the blog to other issues related to rhizomatics. http://davecormier.com/edblog/2008/02/02/creating-a-rhizomatic-knowledge-node-on-a-website/
Posted by dave cormier on February 17, 2008, 06:09 PM
Challenge:
Roadside smog filters
I think we are in desperate need of some preventative action towards are smog and particulate matter problems. Please take a look at this first draft idea for a self sustained smog & particulate matter roadside filter design. And please if you have any ideas on how to improve on this design post your comments and let me know your ideas. thank you for taken the time
Posted by Steve West on December 22, 2007, 01:14 AM
Concept:
Seed - A Wonder Tool with Immense Potential for Research
Biotechnology and Tissue culture industry spends large amount of money and time to fix an appropriate media for the growth of a species. Biotechnologists follow a complicated, money and time consuming process to fix a gene into biological system. These objectives can be achieved in a simple manner using a germinating seed and its potentials. This is a concept and an accidental discovery. It was noticed that when epicotyl and hypocotyl of a germinating cashew seed was cut and the system is kept in moist environment, a bunch of shoots differentiate from the axis of the cotyledon and a ring of roots appeared from the cut end of the hypocotyls. [pictures are shown in the main article]. They appeared to form from single cells, with tendency to form embryoids, however by virtue of their attachment to axis of the parent, they seem to differentiate into shoot and roots to support the parent plant than differentiating into independent units!!!. A simple tilting of the axis of the mother plant produced isolatable complete plants at the edge of the axis. This opened up immense possibility for the fundamental studies. In fact it formed the root of all my research on physics of force in biological system which led me to the secret of universal existence and understanding of the quantum dance. The seed as a tool can be used to quickly develop an appropriate media for a species, it can be used introduce genes in to the species, it an used for developing disease and stress resistant species, to check chemical for its effect on the plant systems, it could lead to developing new plant hormones etc. http://www.geocities.com/new_age_research/seed.htm
Posted by John Paily on December 20, 2007, 08:14 PM
Concept:
Secret of Consciousness and Intelligence
Consciousness is defined as an awareness of change within its field or of the field in which it exist and vice-versa. To be aware a system should have field and it should have entity that is getting aware. This is a simple argument. A hydrogen atom that is aware of the change in heat content of the environment and changes accordingly therefore is conscious. It has a field and it has an entity, which is getting aware. The entity is intelligent and it helps the system to adapt to the situation making changes. It could be understood as balance trying to balance itself. Nature is designed to be conscious. When west awakes to light and becomes disordered, the east simultaneously sleeps to become ordered. When light peaks in the west it gives way to darkness and simultaneously east peaks in darkness and gives way to light. The left and right are instantaneously communicated. The energy flow in it represents a double pump or heart. Any disturbance on the left will produce an equivalent opposite action on the right. The system is dynamic and self sustaining. A direction to such system comes from the mind of human system, which by design is least conscious and intelligent and needs a mediator to make him conscious and intelligent to survive time and change. This draw back of human is deduced to molecular design of the particle that goes to form human life. The parent article secret of consciousness and part 1and 2 discusses it at depth. Reader can also read article Divine Secret Divine Design, Dynamic Design, Beyond Genes, Physics of Soul at the parent site http://www.geocities.com/consciousness123/index.htm http://www.geocities.com/consciousness123/secret_of_consciousness.htm
Posted by John Paily on December 20, 2007, 11:58 AM
Challenge:
Beyond Genes - The Particle that Sustains Life and the Living Universe
Our modern knowledge of life revolves around information, its unfolding and enfolding. However, if you stop to think, you realize that the informations are not the foundation of life. They are the product of evolution of some thing that exit beyond genes that survives by developing information. Observation of life shows that they are instinctively anti-gravitational. Since gravity is based on non-equilibrium, anti-gravity should have equilibrium at its foundation. This means there should be a particle behind life, which has some form of equilibrium. The instinct to maintain the equilibrium manifests as information build up. Breathing, mitotic, and meiotic divisions, originates from a point as a wave and spreads only to return to the point to form a new cycle. Particle physics tells us that waves are associated with particle and particles are associated with waves. This idea of particle behind life gives it unique identity and also tells us the information is processed and action to maintain order originates from the central particle. All information about the state of the system [unfinished order] is recorded in the basal waves. Information for maintenance of information, creation and perpetuation of information comes forth from the basal particle and associated wave. What we see as unfolding and enfolding of genetic information are information already held in the basal particle from time immemorial and evolved with time though mixing of information. The basal particle that goes to form life is dynamic, indestructible and self sustaining. In exposing this author is taking science of biological information and knowledge of life to higher level. He goes one step ahead to show that the universe is also dynamic and living and essentially follows the biological principles to sustain it self. Reader can read article, Beyond Genes, Secret of Consciousness, Physics of soul, Divine Secret, Divine Design, Dynamic Design, Living Universe, at the site of the author http://www.geocities.com/consciousness123/beyond_genes.htm
Posted by John Paily on December 20, 2007, 08:53 AM
Challenge:
Creation Science and Jesus Christ - A Biological Theory of Creation
Knowing time its origin and its initialization is an important preoccupation of science. Einsteins work led to big bang theory where origin of time was mathematically deduced to a point to which everything collapses and explodes. This theory is beyond human sense and all the laws of science breaks down at his point. Non linear science in contrast present a theory in which an initial pulse causes a disorder in clam sea of energy, which in time goes to create great disorder and an attractor state emerging form it around which everything collapses into order. Even this theory fails to figure the whole thing sensibly. Can we have simple explanation to this question from taking clues from biological systems? Biological system conquers time by meiotic division and sexual reproduction. A new body is created in the process to perpetuate against time. Does universe adopts a similar process to conquer time and go in cycles. Author working in this direction exposes a non failing theory that goes to include all partial theory of science and at the same time including the spiritual theories. Interested readers are referred to authors articles Creation Science, Divine Design, Devine Secret, Living Universe
It is humble and open challenge to intellectuals resting in Temples of Science
http://www.geocities.com/consciousness123/index.htm http://www.geocities.com/consciousness123/blog_creation_science.htm
Posted by John Paily on December 20, 2007, 02:41 AM
