Dear Friend of Public Invention, As you probably know, there is a terrible humanitarian crisis in India right now. The COVID-19 disease is rampant, the medical system is overwhelmed, it appears that the infections may actually be increasing, and deaths and infections are almost certainly being undercounted. I would like to tell you that Public […]
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Since its inception, we have known that VentMon has the capacity to save lives. We are excited to report that we’ve received tangible proof of this from Ajit Lahori and his team from Taurus Medical Corporation in India. After sending Ajit Lahori a VentMon, Public Invention received this testimonial highlighting how VentMon is making an
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This past week, Public Invention President Robert L. Read was featured on the Fashionably Late podcast. In it, Rob talks about his journey from computer programmer to Presidental Innovation Fellow to founder and president of Public Invention. He discusses feeling unfulfilled in his corporate job and how his passions led him to Public Invention, and
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A New Kind of FDA Approval: Design Clearance —Robert L. Read 50-Word Summary By creating a new process for clearing tested device designs independently from manufacturing plans as a prelude to full approval to market a medical device, the FDA can allow medical devices to come to market more safely and spur cooperative innovation. 50-Word
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Meet David Jeschke. David has partnered with Dr. Robert Read to work on his Euler Notebook project, which is a computer-based math program with a stylus that acts like a good old fashion pen and pencil. David is the founder of XtraMath, a nonprofit offering a free online supplementary math education program, and prior to
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Introduction This is the final report for grant: #MOSS-2004-07366 to Public Invention from the Mozilla Open Source Software Foundation. Although the grant seems to be closed, based perhaps on our interim report, a final report is worthwhile. Executive Summary In fulfillment of the grant, we spent almost all ($19,795.40) of the $20,000 by Jan.
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On January 9, 2021, Public Invention hosted our virtual “year in review” conference titled PubInvCon 2021: Work To Be Done. The conference was a coming together of dedicated inventors, volunteers, scientists, students, and more interested in humanitarian inventing “in the public, for the public.” We discussed our successes of 2020 and outlined the hard work
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By Ben Coombs “As to diseases, make a habit of two things – to help, or at least to do no harm.” written by Hippocrates in Epidemics. A Diagram of Major Humanitarian Engineering Efforts (Link allows zooming) Early in 2020 the alarm bells rang out. All across the world people tuned into news about
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Recently, Public Invention President Robert L. Read and other volunteers assisted a project with students from Fraunhofer Institute. The Institute released a press release summarized here: In April, COVID-19 began straining healthcare systems as we saw supply-chain breakdowns leading to ventilator shortages. To help mitigate this, individuals, communities, companies, and research institutions began to design
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Avinash Baskaran has been with Public Invention since it was just him and Dr. Robert Read inventing in a basement. And as Public Invention has grown, so has Avinash. “I met Rob at Engineers Without Borders a few years ago, and we talked about our interests, what we were thinking about, and the kinds of
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