Adjustable Eyeglasses: Provide Corrective Glasses for Someone for Just US$7!
About one billion people in the world need some sort of corrective measures for their vision. Unfortunately, many in third-world countries do not have access to vision care and those with vision...
View ArticleBiosand Filters: Low-cost, Low-maintenance Water Filtration System
It's estimated that contaminated water accounts for more than half of the diseases and deaths in third-world countries. One of the most low-cost, low-maintenance methods of water filtration is the...
View ArticleShipping Container Homes: A Viable Solution for Housing?
While working on a project to help design housing solutions for migrant farmworkers called "Breaking New Ground," my colleague and I explored the idea of turning shipping containers into durable,...
View ArticleBaby Incubators Made from Car Parts
Sometimes we send expensive and complicated equipment to poor countries and then find them broken or unused after a while. A solution is not real solution unless it's suitable for the recipients....
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