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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...

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Biosand 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...

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Shipping 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,...

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Baby 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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