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designthatmatters.org - 12/16/2008

Incubator Article Archive

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DtM Debuts its Latest Incubator Model Last summer, DtM partnered with the CIMIT Global Health Initiative, and recruited three Industrial Design students from the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) to develop the Neonatal Incubator's second phase prototype. Building off of the insights from ...

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nytimes.com - 12/16/2008

Looking Under the Hood and Seeing an Incubator

— nytimes.com — The creators of the car parts incubator, which can be built for less than $1,000, say it... could prevent millions of newborn deaths in the developing world. > (more) Looking Under the Hood and Seeing an Incubator

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"Organic Resourcing": Incubators made from car parts
Core77 — ... The Science Times today features a story both inspiring for its design thinking and heart-breaking for the problem it addresses. Design That Matters has contributed its efforts toward a low-cost neo-natal infant incubator...made from car parts. We love ...

BehindTheMedspeak: Car Parts Incubator
bookofjoe — ... just don't last very long — if they work at all. But there always seems to be a Toyota 4Runner in working order. Timothy Prestero, founder and CEO of Massachusetts nonprofit Design That Matters, told Madeline Drexler for a story that appears on the front page of today's New York Times Science section that "The idea was to start with a 4Runner and take away all the parts that weren't an incubator." Depicted above is the result, a working incubator for under $1,000. The Times article about this inspired hack follows. ...