Mobile Refrigeration Unit designed by student for vaccines

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A 22-year-old British student has invented a mobile fridge that could save millions of lives across the world.

Will Broadway's "Isobar" has been designed to keep vaccines at the ideal temperature while in transit in developing countries. And Will doesn't plan to make money from his creation. His focus is to get it to people who need it, which is why he won't be trying to get a patent.

"I make things every day for people who have everything," Will, an industrial design and technology graduate from Loughborough University, tells Newsbeat.

"I wanted to make something for people who have next to nothing. It should be a basic human right, in my opinion, to have a vaccination.

"I don't think that it should be patented to restrict use."
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/artic...could-save-millions-of-lives-across-the-world

What an incredible piece of kit. Really goes to show what having a vision can do along with a drive and desire to help people. Faith in humanity partially restored!
 
kinda sad that someone else will likely patent it for him and start making money from it.

he should pursue the ip protection and then after make it freely available to copy and distribute.
 
This definitely doesn't sound like something he should just be throwing out there as adolf hamster says someone will snap this up and make a mint out of it.
 
Yeah, someone else will patent it and start selling it for nothing but a profit :/ Definitely needs some protection.
 
I agree about the IP protection. Brilliant and heartwarming to see such work being undertaken.

In a related story, my colleagues and I (here in evil, BIG PHARMA HQ) have just completed working on a clinical trial for a medication which stops post-partum (immediately after birth) bleeding in women. In the developed world there is a simple shot that is administered to new mother's but it is temperature sensitive and has to be stored refrigerated. The new formulation is a powder which can be trasnported & stored even at desert temperatures. Hopefully it'll save many lives across the world.

See, life ain't all bad. :)
 
checjb said:
I agree about the IP protection. Brilliant and heartwarming to see such work being undertaken.

In a related story, my colleagues and I (here in evil, BIG PHARMA HQ) have just completed working on a clinical trial for a medication which stops post-partum (immediately after birth) bleeding in women. In the developed world there is a simple shot that is administered to new mother's but it is temperature sensitive and has to be stored refrigerated. The new formulation is a powder which can be trasnported & stored even at desert temperatures. Hopefully it'll save many lives across the world.

See, life ain't all bad. :)
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Not all big pharma I bad and not everything about big pharma is bad. You are proof. Sadly the bad comes when avarice is a fundamental solution to a product being sold/commercialised.
 
I don't think you can patent something someone has already published freely lol.

anyway pharma companies would love this

after all if a new container opens up thousands of new customers...
 
dowie said:
such a patent would be useless as there is rather obvious prior use here
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That was my thinking to. You can't just go out and patent something someone else has designed and sold. :p

Sure, a generic could copy it, but that's in part what he wants I assume.
 
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