In the course of the pandemic, the interest in creating more innovative medical devices has run high, as recent years showed how unpredictable the situation in healthcare can be. Never before have we faced such an acute need for masks, ventilators, oxygen cylinders, and other must-have devices to conquer the pandemic.
All this has become a trigger to develop devices that can work autonomously for a long time, without access to the internet or cloud, just on batteries with ultra-low power consumption.
And most importantly, it's vital that such devices can be made by a wider range of people, even without in-depth technical skills. Perhaps, you’ve heard the story about two engineers from Lombardy who, at the peak of the epidemic in Italy, really saved their city as they began to print plastic valves for ventilators on 3D printers in their office and provided them to hospitals for free. The pandemic unified all, even those who were far from medicine before.
