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The smart syringe

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Medical waste is possibly the most difficult waste to treat. It can’t be recycled, and it can’t even be carelessly disposed. Tonnes of plastic ends up in landfills because of used disposable-syringes. The Single-Use-Band-aid is a brilliant solution to this problem, greatly reducing the use of plastic. Designed as a flexible vial with the syringe needle attached, it comes with a paper apparatus that can be used to inject the contents of the vial into your blood-flow. Its unbelievably intuitive and minimal design seems ideal for medical practitioners in rural areas where the need of the day is to provide cheap and hassle free medical treatment.

Designers: Horacio M. Pace Bedetti, Carlos Paulino Montero and Andrés Conejero Rodilla.

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The Medical Multi-tool

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In medicine, design gives a massive amount of consideration to function. After all, someone’s life is at stake. Designing a tool that can do two things at once can sometimes buy doctors a few extra seconds and that can be enough to save a life. The DTool is a revolutionary surgical instrument that enables laparoscopic surgeons to perform surgeries with ease.

Laparoscopy (or minimally invasive surgery) is a type of surgery that poses a lesser risk to the health of the patient. However, it’s a great strain for the surgeon since they need to perform everything within a tiny incision in the body. This requires nerves of steel, and a very specific set of tools. However, changing instruments mid-surgery can be complicated. So, the DTool combines instruments together to create a Swiss Knife of M.I. Surgery. Designed to grip and to cut, these tools are operated by triggers at the gripping end of the shaft. The other end contains the gripping pincers and a cutting tool. Any doctors here? I’m sure we’d love to listen to your thoughts!

Designers: Horacio M. Pace Bedetti, Andrés Conejero Rodilla and Carlos Paulino Montero.

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