Week+2

Designing for the other 99%

__1. Which product interests you the most, and why? (200 words)__

Looking at the products that were invented although they were all interesting, the Q-drum is the most interesting to me. Its purpose is to make it easier for people to transport water from one location to another. A common site in Africa is seeing people carry the water on their heads, however this creates strain for them and they are limited to the amount of water they can bring back. Since water is a necessary part of life not having clean water puts the people at risk of diseases and death. The Q-drums design is similar to that of a doughnut which makes it easy for the people to transport the water. Simply adding a string to the design puts less strain on the people an d they are able to transport 72liters of clean water.

This product interests me because having clean water is a struggle and challenge of everyday life is not limited to Africa. Although there are programs to help give clean water to these countries its not enough. Developing tools like the Q-drum help them retrieve water on their own, instead of relying on people from other countries.

__2. Which category would interest you to research further for your group project, and why? (100 words)__

I would enjoy further researching either the health or ecology categories for the final project. The health category is always in demand, people of the poor nations always suffer in regards to their health and trying to receive health products to cure certain diseases. Once certain medications were delivered it would be good to train the people on how to distribute the medication. On the other hand it would be interesting to look at the ecology category as well because pollution and using green technologies effects everyone in the world. Therefore it has a big impact on the world in its entirety and teaching everyone on how to decrease pollution or using green technologies will help the entire world.