There’s a lot more to the word ‘design’ than just the outer appeal and looks. A design has the power to make our lives better in countless ways. Discussed below are some of the great designs that have the power to revolutionize a lot of things we do in our day-to-day lives! Let’s explore some of these….
Smart Phone for the Blind
Unbelievable, isn’t it! This smart phone design, especially for the blind, has been crafted by Shikun Sun. The DrawBraille Smart Phone allows visually-impaired people to send messages, get directions and even do a Google search. Its keyboard comprises of Braille characters and there’s a screen as well.
One Laptop Per Child
The One Laptop Per Child Group aims to provide the children of under-developed countries with complete access to information and a host of benefits that are accompanied by it. The group’s main focus is to provide children across the globe with cost-effective yet durable laptops. If numbers are to be believed, the group has supplied as many as 2.4 million laptops to children in third-world countries.
Hippo Roller Water Transport
In countries such as Africa, people have to spend lots of time fetching water for different purposes. The journey tasks as much as three to four hours. However, with the advent of Hippo Roller Water Transport, people can now easily fetch more quantities of water with fewer efforts. This object consists of a cylindrical barrel that has a push handle as well. One can easily collect water for an entire family in just one trip.
BioLite Kitchen Stove
Across the globe as many as 2,000, 000 people die every year because of diseases related to smoke-inhalation that arises out of poor-ventilated conditions while cooking food. The BioLite Stove promises to tackle this problem quite effectively. The stove lets people in the third world countries to cook food in a way that is really clean, efficient and smoke-free using wood. Besides this, the Stove is also equipped with a USB charger allowing people to charge their mobile devices.
AirDrop Irrigation Water Source
An award-winning design, made by Edward Linacre, promises to irrigate crops even in drought conditions. What it does is that it collects water from the thin air to provide irrigation to the crops in arid places. This device consists of a turbine which gathers humid air and as soon as the air passes via different water tubes to the cooler, the water condenses. No matter how harsh the conditions are, the AirDrop collects as much as a liter of water every day to irrigate crops.