Outreach Event: Engineers Save Lives
A few weeks ago we hosted an outreach event in collaboration with UCL Engineering department and the Royal Institution.
We set the children a brief entitled: Design for Disabilities.
Disability is being transformed by engineering: new wheelchairs, hearing aids, better prosthetics and smart bandages are all making the disabled more able to take part in society.
Spectacles are a product designed to aid vision these are now much more of a fashion accessory. Why shouldn’t hearing aids be as fashionable as eyewear?
In June last year the BBC trailed a low-cost brainwave-reading headset to control iplayer. It allowed users to select programes without lifting a finger. They headset uses two sensors; one that rests on the forehead, and another clips to the ears, these measure the brains electrical signals.
A chip in your brain can control a robotic arm.
Oscar Pistorius was one of the first double amputee to win an able-bodied race. During the 2012 Summer Olympics to win a medal in the mens 400m. Did Oscar’s carbon-fibre running blades give him an unfair advantage over other able-bodied competitors? Did this technology, the International Olympics Committee asked, take him beyond normal human limits?
The brief was to design and prototype a product in this market sector.
Outreach Event: Engineers Save Lives
A few weeks ago we hosted an outreach event in collaboration with UCL Engineering department and the Royal Institution.
We set the children a brief entitled: Design for Disabilities.
Disability is being transformed by engineering: new wheelchairs, hearing aids, better prosthetics and smart bandages are all making the disabled more able to take part in society.
Spectacles are a product designed to aid vision these are now much more of a fashion accessory. Why shouldn’t hearing aids be as fashionable as eyewear?
In June last year the BBC trailed a low-cost brainwave-reading headset to control iplayer. It allowed users to select programes without lifting a finger. They headset uses two sensors; one that rests on the forehead, and another clips to the ears, these measure the brains electrical signals.
A chip in your brain can control a robotic arm.
Oscar Pistorius was one of the first double amputee to win an able-bodied race. During the 2012 Summer Olympics to win a medal in the mens 400m. Did Oscar’s carbon-fibre running blades give him an unfair advantage over other able-bodied competitors? Did this technology, the International Olympics Committee asked, take him beyond normal human limits?
The brief was to design and prototype a product in this market sector.