Covid-19
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Team 3D prints a tool to open doors without using hands
Solution Shared by sara.di.fabio@patient-innovation.com on 2020-03-19 12:29
Because door handles are among the most germ-ingested objects, a team at Materialise developed a tool that allows to open doors without using hands. The easy-to-use openers do not require drilling holes or replacing doors’ handles. The tool is composed by ...
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Puzzle solving game to fight Covid-19
Solution Shared by Ana Ribeiro on 2020-04-15 16:44
Eterna is a citizen science initiative in which people are invited to solve puzzles and, in the process, help design molecules with medical applications. Through Eterna,several functional RNA molecules have been designed, outperforming top existing search ...
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Cultural institutions read poetry to alleviate people’s day
Solution Shared by sara.di.fabio@patient-innovation.com on 2020-04-22 17:35
In Lisbon, workers from Casa Fernando Pessoa and from EGEAC (Empresa de Gestão de Equipamentos e Animação Cultural, E.M.) started the initiative ‘Readings to the Ear’ to maintain the connection between Casa Fernando Pessoa and the public during COVID-19 ...
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Writer shares lockdown stories and raises money for charities
Solution Shared by sara.di.fabio@patient-innovation.com on 2020-04-28 11:41
Meg Zukin, in a tweet, asked the internet for relationship drama during the COVID-19 pandemic to document under the lockdown. People can submit stories anonymously and readers were initially asked to donate $1 to see the posts that were collated on a ...
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Mobile App to track the coronavirus outbreak
Solution Shared by Ana Ribeiro on 2020-03-26 15:25
Lee Jun-young was living in South Korea during the Covid-19 pandemic and, while trying to keep up with the news, he found the data provided by the government hard to understand. The date released by the health officials contained information about the ...
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Psychotherapists create card set to help people cope with the Covid-19 pandemic
Solution Shared by Ana Ribeiro on 2020-08-05 18:41
Due to the unprecedented challenges humanity was facing, brought by the Covid-19 pandemic, many people were feeling their mental health deteriorating. To help people navigate these feeling, Dr. Michael Bohne and Dr. Sabine Ebersberger, two experienced ...
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Engineering company shares ventilator’s hardware design to spin up production
Solution Shared by sara.di.fabio@patient-innovation.com on 2020-04-21 15:24
To help in the fight against COVID-19, Medtronic is issuing a special permissive license, sharing the full design specifications, product manuals, design documents and software code for its Puritan Bennett (PB) 560 portable ventilator hardware. The PB 560 ...
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Inventor finds an idea to save and reuse protective gears during the COVID19
Solution Shared by sara.di.fabio@patient-innovation.com on 2020-03-26 12:48
Yoav had an idea to save and reuse multi-purpose gloves, respirator masks and other protective items that have become very costly and hard to find. Using empty cardboard boxes Yoav created a cluster of seven cubbies. Each cubby may include two hooks to ...
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Inventor creates system that detects if people are wearing a mask
Solution Shared by Ana Ribeiro on 2021-01-21 22:04
During the Covid-19 pandemic, Rahul Khanna D (known as “the lonely programmer”) decided to use his skills as a Computer Vision Engineer to create a solution that would help fight the coronavirus. He created a system that is able to determine if a person ...
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Experts created protective shields especially designed for dentists
Solution Shared by Ana Ribeiro on 2020-07-16 09:33
During the Covid-19 pandemic, the Portuguese government ordered the temporary suspension of dentistry and stomatology practices, except in cases of emergency, due to the potential for infection during those procedures. “The proximity with the oral cavity, ...
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