http://www.psfk.com Your Go-To Source For New Ideas And Inspiration Wed, 15 Feb 2012 16:53:32 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.psfk.com/2012/01/solar-lamp-phone-charge.html Fri, 06 Jan 2012 14:30:18 +0000 This affordable and eco-friendly lighting solution is small enough to fit on a bottle and therefore more versatile for the global south.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/08/the-last-mile-is-the-toughest-delivering-help-on-two-wheels.html Tue, 23 Aug 2011 17:37:03 +0000 PSFK interviews the CEO and Co-Founder of the international initiative, Riders For Health, that deliver medication and health services to remote areas.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/07/micro-donations-help-1000-students-get-an-education-headlines.html Thu, 28 Jul 2011 15:42:36 +0000 A Seattle non-profit has used crowdfunding and micro loans to help 1,000 students in third world countries go to school.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2010/10/car-parts-incubator-provides-care-and-comfort-for-babies.html Mon, 25 Oct 2010 16:50:23 +0000 A creative medical device is built almost entirely from used automobile parts.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2010/05/can-an-ethical-guide-to-shopping-affect-new-business-models.html Mon, 24 May 2010 15:22:33 +0000 Ethical shopping tenants we can all use to revamp our consumer habits. ]]> http://www.psfk.com/2010/01/pics-aid-packages-transform-into-footballs-for-impoverished-children.html Thu, 14 Jan 2010 17:17:35 +0000 South Korean design firm Unplug Design has developed a concept for delivering footballs to impoverished children.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2008/12/a-medical-test-for-the-third-world.html Wed, 24 Dec 2008 18:00:28 +0000 A team of Harvard University chemists have developed a simple technology that takes an expensive medical device know as a microfluidic chip and puts it within reach of the third world.  Using paper and double-sided tape as opposed to rubbers or plastics that require multimillion dollar fabrication equipment, these chips can eventually be made widely available for mere pennies on the dollar.     [They] operate much like a home pregnancy test, in which liquid creeps up a cellulose strip toward a color-changing line. But unlike the pregnancy test, these new chips can split a single stream of liquid intoRead more...]]> http://www.psfk.com/2008/12/vision-eyeglasses-with-a-tunable-prescription.html Tue, 23 Dec 2008 17:30:14 +0000 If you’ve ever been for an eye exam then you’re familiar with the process of looking through various combinations of lenses as the optometrist attempts to determine your ideal prescription.  Now imagine taking the power and versatility of this rather unwieldy machine and putting all its capabilities in a pair of glasses. That’s exactly what retired Oxford University physics professor Joshua Silver has done by creating the world’s first pair of tunable eyeglasses, a process that has taken him the better part of two decades to develop. Daily Tech explains the technology behind the innovative design:  His lenses use liquid lensesRead more...]]>