Project: Bicycle-powered centrifuge | MIT SP.718, Spring 2009

D-Lab Health provides multi-disciplinary approach to global health technology design via guest lectures and a major project based on fieldwork. We will explore the current state of global health challenges and learn how design medical technologies that address those problems. Students may travel to Nicaragua during spring break and work with health professionals, using medical technology design kits to gain field experience for their device challenge. As a final class deliverable, you will create a product design solution to address the challenges observed in the field. The resulting designs are prototyped in the summer for continued evaluation and testing.

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Education

Tags:

• global health
• medicine
• developing nation
• third world
• disease
• disease prevention
• vaccine
• immunization
• drug
• health diagnostic
• medical informatics
• appropriate technology
• sustainable development
• co-creation
• inequality
• poverty
• poor
• medical device
• medical device design
• innovation
• prototyping
• medical ethics
• infant mortality

[HotnessTim]

completely useless

[1kingconan]

WHAT IS THE POINT OF THIS?

[akib89]

I m sorry , But nothing so special about it..

[michalchik]

Good idea for a bike driven centrifuge but why not just put the bike on a stand and just have the read wheel drive the central axle of the centrifuge by friction?