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If someone's drunk, you can measure their blood alcohol concentration with a breathalyzer. But there's been no equivalent for measuring how high on THC someone is. "In an era of cannabis legalization," writes...

I have a friend who lost his father to cancer last year. During his final moments, his entire family was gathered around him on his hospital bed.When you die of COVID-19, you die alone. Family and friends are not...

The bottom line is, people are not good at wearing things on their face--even if it might save their lives. Look at these people on an airplane that has just gone depressurized, as one example; for another, look at the...

The first problem with face masks is that we don't have enough of them. The second is that they're made with unsustainable materials. The third problem is that they're opaque, concealing our expressions; this provides...

In an effort to slow COVID-19 infections, particularly among their homeless population, San Francisco rolled out rotomolded, sidewalk-sited public hand washing stations. It will be interesting to see if, post-COVID-19,...

Industrial designer Julia Behm has been designing medical equipment since 2007. On Coroflot, we spotted her portfolio of medical cart designs, which are crucial and unsung pieces of kit these days. Check out the sheer...

This week Apple CEO Tim Cook took to Twitter to announce the company is making face shields, at a production target of one million per week, for healthcare professionals. (This is on top of the 20 million facemasks that...

In this time of Coronavirus, you may searching through your medicine cabinet, cycling through the supplements, vitamins, ointments, pills, creams, in search of something that will protect you from this increasingly...

A study from UC Davis, published in Nature and called "Aerosol emission and superemission during human speech increase with voice loudness," finds that:"The rate of particle emission during normal human...

An astrophysicist attempting to invent an anti-COVID-19 necklace had to go to the hospital to have magnets removed from his nose.While recent news is filled with promising stories of medical inventions--James Dyson...

Apple has released a free app that provides basic information about COVID-19, along with a "screening tool" (i.e. a questionnaire) to help you determine what to do next.The COVID-19 app has up-to-date...

Issinova, the Italian 3D printing company that used digital fabrication to save the day at an Italian hospital, has come up with another brilliant innovation. The doctor they previously collaborated with, Dr. Renato...

Best known for their vacuums and fans, Dyson has developed the CoVent, a new ventilator "designed and built from scratch," according to the BBC. And according to Dyson's statement (reprinted on ITV News), it...

StatGear's Hygiene Hand, a small handheld object made of brass for its antimicrobial properties, was designed so the user can avoid touching potentially germy surfaces. It's currently killing it on Kickstarter ($60,000...

Do you have N95 masks in your shop that you can donate? Industrial designer Craig Mackiewicz writes:"Calling all industrial designers, model makers, painters, builders and those in the trades: Our industries use...

Wearing gloves to protect yourself from germs isn't much help if, in the process of removing them, you accidentally wipe those germs all over your bare skin. Here's the right way to take them off.As seen here in the...

Alcoholic beverage manufacturers have plentiful supplies of the main ingredient required to make hand sanitizer. A bunch of them are making it and giving it away for free.New York Distilling Co. It's ironic that in...

While Elon Musk has already volunteered, multiple governments around the world are pressing automakers into service to help deal with the shortage in ventilators.The idea is that with their state-of-the-art...

After a fan of Elon Musk tweet-asked him to make ventilators, to deal with the looming shortage, Musk--who has been downplaying the severity of the COVID-19 crisis--sent the following reply: Statistician Nate Silver...

A 3D printing startup in Italy saves the day by producing a critical replacement part for a medical device. This points to a potential role industrial designers could play in the fight against COVID-19.Patients...

A handy way to disinfect surfaces, killing COVID-19 particles and other germs, is to use ultraviolet light. Specifically, UVC light, which is the only type of ultraviolet light powerful enough to be germicidal. (There...