The Aid personal health management device provides the possibility for users who love to be an active member in their community but have difficulty in leaving their homes due to the health issues. This cane-like unit has been designed to become useful ICT device in user’s daily lives where it features services that are integrated with social infrastructure.

The Aid is actually focused to help elderly people and traumatized people who usually don’t have the confidence to step outside their house. They are isolated from the outside world and usually depressed because of the lack of social interaction with other people. This device works as a walking cane, a ‘helping hand’ to this people. It provides security and guidance from being lost or receiving the attention/help they need immediately. The integrated navigator works as a service and health device that provides information about blood pressure temperature and pulse rate. The SOS button when pressed will contact the help center and send the user’s current health status and location to provide immediate help from qualified individual.

The Aid personal health management device will help people with limited lifestyle to become more independent, confident, and sociable.

Designer : Egle Ugintaite

U-Haul Emergency Response Conversion Kit has been specifically designed for the American Red Cross to quickly convert an ordinary rental truck into a temporary emergency response vehicle. In a major disaster, thousands of response vehicles are needed in a short period of time, however it usually takes over a week for these Emergency Resnpose Vehicles (ERVs) to arrive on the location while the need for food and water is immediate. The challenge of this project is to find affordable solution that enables the Red Cross to respond to a large scale disaster in a short period of time.

Designer : Pengtao Yu

Instead of designing a new generation of ERV, Pengtao Yu, an industrial designer, has thought of utilizing common rental truck into a temporary ERV. Thousands of pre-staged kits can be air shipped to the disaster area in one or two days, volunteers can turn any rental truck into ERV by following detail instructions. These converted vehicles can be used to provide stationary sites for distributing food and water. It will certainly drastically cut down on the time and cost to respond.

U-Haul Emergency Response Conversion Kit is a low cost solution that will increase the capability ofAmerican Red Cross to respond faster and better to a large-scale disaster in a short period of time.

Here’s one of great attempts to design future Health Assistant Device from Rochus Jacob. The interfaceof this medical device features a cell-phone-like display to provide patients access to their health information. Using this device, patients can synchronize their medical data with an external server where their doctors can also monitor their patients progress and optimize the treatment.

This Health Assistant Device features dual layer where the outside layer works just like a cellphone with an e-ink touch display to operate the phone. There are several button layouts which can be chosen depending on the user’s experience. Simply slide open the outside layer to reveal your medical data. The minimalistinterface prevents user from getting lost in sub menus while in health assistant mode.

Designer : Rochus Jacob