001 – A Better Aerosol Shield

An ongoing, pro-bono development of a light-weight, disposable and high coverage Aerosol Shield. This is being tested and iterated at this point and undergoing further improvements. When the solution is optimized, we will share the instructables and fabrication dimensions here to allow communities to have this wherever it is needed.

002 – Home Nudge

On the lighter side of innovation, we developed a series of 10 ‘print-it-yourself’ door hangers, so that people can use them as a non-confrontational way to remind their family members to stay at home during the COVID-19 crisis.

004 – X-Hood

X-Hood, designed for a major hospital in Singapore as part of our Covid-19 efforts, is a light-wearing, disposable hood that helps to contain infectious droplets when patients are being transferred. Prioritizing low costs, quick production techniques, and versatility, this method of creating a head-worn droplet containment shell provides an added layer to minimize cough droplets from dispersal, while achieving comfort and dignity for the patient wearing it. The project is currently in progress for optimization of ventilation comfort, increased certainty of the seal, and further reduction of costs.

005 – Multi-Band Porthole

Self-sealing portholes are vital during infection crises. Without a good way to allow entry and exit of hands and equipment, infection-control enclosures and barriers become pointless. Part of our Covid-19 efforts, therefore, focuses on creating new mechanisms that can be easily and quickly constructed for such purposes and implementable in a wide variety of situations. The MultiBand Porthole is one new development that utilizes a clever arrangement of elastic components, along with the aid of a soft conduit, to provide an ugly but effective barrier that creates good hole closure while providing the operator with a high degree of flexibility and dexterity.

006 – Quick-Seal Porthole

As another leading candidate in our development of self-sealing portholes, we found a way to use elastic layers, combined with clever geometry, to create an almost magical gateway which opens only as much as it is being pushed, and forms an incredibly close-hugging seal around objects or a doctor’s arm. This solution is neat, compact, and easy to manufacture, and provides unparalleled freedom of motion while maintaining a closed state. The only way to describe this is to see it in action or to put your hand through it. We think this has immense application possibilities as gateways for arms and equipment, as well as for closures around the neck or torso for medical purposes, and its possibilities for non-medical use is also attractive in the way it provides an almost ‘magic portal’ type of interaction for preventing unwanted physical or visual intrusion.

If you’d like to license this for use in for non-pandemic purposes, write to us here. Your commercial support will help us continue to serve the community with necessary and non-paying innovation.