Comments on: “Design For Hack” in Medicine

By: dZed

dZed — Tue, 28 Aug 2012 13:14:10 +0000

I have had this tab open in my browser since April, and I finally took some time to read it. It’s a fantastic article, and one I would encourage every engineering student to read. The world that the original appropriate technologists worked with in the 70s was very different from the world today, and some of the real insights in this article — distribution of game systems vs. glucometers, for instance — point directly at those differences. A great read and I wish the author luck.

By: “Design For Hack” in Medicine | Digital Health Journal

“Design For Hack” in Medicine | Digital Health Journal — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 22:47:58 +0000

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By: Biologic DIY and bio printing | Pearltrees

Biologic DIY and bio printing | Pearltrees — Sat, 07 Apr 2012 06:46:17 +0000

[...] If you’ve ever tried to explain over the phone something like how to replace a headlamp in a foreign car, you know how frustrating it is to lack a language of design. “The little plastic knob with screws … yes I understand there are four knobs, try the first one….” Languages of Design MAKE | “Design For Hack” in Medicine [...]

By: Paul Spinrad

Paul Spinrad — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 18:19:52 +0000

That’s terrific — 11-year-old girls with a “girls work in hospitals” frame create a “laptop hospital” and start fixing laptops!

By: monopole

monopole — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 18:02:08 +0000

Reminds me of the OLPC laptop hospital in Nigeria:

http://pixelqi.com/blog1/2010/03/07/diy-pixel-qi-kits/

Luckily: An 11 year old girl decided to open a laptop hospital. Unfortunately the boys really missed out here, because in this part of Nigeria “everyone knows” only girls work at hospitals, she eventually recruited girls as young as 5 to help out in the hospital. This group of girls armed with screwdrivers starting taking apart the laptops and reseating the cables. Sometimes they’d change out a screen, or a speaker. They learned about the hardware of their laptops. They got to see what was inside. They got better and better at fixing things by learning as they went.

Ministers of Education had a tough time believing that these girls could fix the hardware, so they would visit – to see it with their own eyes – and start thinking differently about maintenance of hardware. We kept preaching that ownership was the best way to assure maintenance.

Yet, most people are scared to change their laptop screen. It’s only slightly more difficult than changing a lightbuld: it’s basically 6 screws, pulling off a bezel, unconnecting the old screen and plugging this one in. That’s it. It’s a 5 minute operation.

By: MAKE | How Toys Can Save Lives on CNN’s The Next List This Sunday (April 1)

Tue, 03 Apr 2012 18:02:02 +0000

[...] Jose contributes to the MAKE blog and wrote a fantastic article on his MEDIKits for our special issue Ultimate Kit Guide last year. We’ll publish the article here on the blog next week. [UPDATE: Here it is: “Design For Hack” in Medicine] [...]