Aidex 2011 Innovation Challenge

Aidexpo wrote: The Aid Innovation Challenge is a competition to find inventions that will be beneficial to supplying humanitarian aid around the globe. 2011 winners: Business entry - Leaf Supply with their LeafBed Individual entry - Claire Louise Barrie with MedAlert The challenge was open to various design agencies alongside engineering companies and young designers/engineers who have an entrepreneurial spirit and who were not currently working for an organisation. The type of ideas encouraged included innovations that would provide better medical and health care especially in rural areas, improve basic sanitation, provide more security or enable more people to access education.

Transcript

00:00:03 welcome everybody to the adex aid innovation challenge a competition to encourage creative unconventional thinking and i'm very honored to be invited in to sit down here with the other guys to look through the inventions as they're presented to us i've come here to ask for grant for my product the mental it's a scheduler and dispenser for

00:00:25 anti-veteran biomedication which is for hiv patients now this medication is only effective if it's taken to a strict schedule at dosage time this interior section is compressed which dispenses the drugs breaks the circuit and resets the timer and just talk us through the materials that it's made out of in the manufacturing process the parts would be

00:00:45 polycarbonate which is especially hard material that's a lot of plastic and polycarbonate to be thrown away but i just wonder if there's a way it could be made out of recyclable materials yeah it can be made a lot you can get recycled polycarbonate pellets my name is david hutton and this is my prototype flexi pipe pump it's a simple reliable and low cost water pump it only

00:01:08 has two moving parts and water's brought to the surface with a hose i'm looking at the equipment i like the way it works but isn't it rather fragile at the moment this is a prototype so the actual pump won't look the same it won't have these flanges it'll actually be made and we'll have screw caps we are from leaf supply what we

00:01:29 developed is a bed but it's totally made out of cardboard it can take over 400 kilos so it's very resistant it's also about isolation from the cold it's many factors well thank you very much and what what an intriguing idea i can imagine this being used in in haiti say in in the tent camps there but big problem when the rains come very wet yeah sure that's your big point

00:01:53 actually your ba your bed can face a very high humidity rate in the air so up to 90 percent our new product which is called a survivor still survivor still is an independent ready to use multi-terrain solar still and this is what one looks like when it's all packed up the way that it works is you would put your contaminated water

00:02:15 source into the heat absorbing black bag the rays from the sun would then heat that water source up that evaporates and condensation from that water vapor forms on the outer skin of the unit and and it collects in the fresh water reservoir at the base there it can produce up to two liters of water per day a winner for the individual category

00:02:47 player larry it's great not just the monetary support i got two and a half thousand pounds but also just the support from individuals we felt it would be appropriate to present this award to this company today um i know it is it's leave well done we're very happy to win the overall that's a good recognition from like

00:03:18 people from the industry and all the steps of your competition were very interesting the aid community has sort of struggled to take on modern technologies and the thrust i think of adex is to try and get some of that sort of space race atmosphere going on and drag some of these rather remarkable inventions but cross over into the aid world because it

00:03:41 desperately needs it desperately needs that sort of technology and there's nasa technology needs military technology and this is an attempt at the first attempt being doing pretty well so far there's lots of innovation that i'm seeing that i haven't seen you