In four days, we assembled a team of over forty experts in design, engineering and medicine to develop a face shield PPE for front line healthcare workers. We took the Prusa Printer RC2 design as a starting point, focusing on the need for improved protection for the wearer from aerosol and splatter from above, and improved washability and re-use. Here’s how you can get involved.
A two-year study comparing Firefly phototherapy treatment to standard single-sided phototherapy devices showed an increase in the hourly rate of bilirubin reduction by 54%, and a reduction in newborn treatment time by 21%. Firefly’s faster treatment saves hospital costs and allows babies to go home with their parents that much earlier.
We’ve learned that in addition to a well-posed problem, effective collaboration requires the elimination of “nuisance distance”. What can you do to reduce the nuisance distance between you and your most important partners, and what incentives can you provide to get them to cross the nuisance distance you can’t eliminate?
We’ve just passed a major milestone in the development of the Otter Warmer: the design and fabrication of our alpha prototype, the first iteration to both look like and work like our expectations for the finished product. It includes two key new features: a numerical user interface and a heating assembly manufactured from a translucent polymer film.
We recently launched a Kickstarter campaign to raise funding for international research, and as campaign rewards we offered collections of some of our favorite research and travel gear.
Great products meet the user’s expectations and their circumstances. Every designer can tell you how understanding user needs requires lots of direct observations and interviews. DtM has learned that the most valuable feedback requires something more than the standard research toolkit. This short video explains why we go back to some of our favorite hospitals overseas again and again.
With bonus footage from Otter testing in Vietnam!
