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Public Invention Begins 6-month Oxygen Production Experiment at Kids Operating Room

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Oxygen is a miracle drug for many conditions, and is absolutely essential for serious surgeries. Kids Operating Room (KidsOR)  (https://www.kidsor.org/) installs pediatric surgical theaters in the poorest countries of the world. Recently, they installed their 101st operating room, and have now performed 722,401 pediatric surgeries. Generally, these operating rooms use either bottled oxygen or pressure-swing […]

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Postdoc Bridge Funding Initiative (PBFI)

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Postdoc Bridge Funding Initiative (PBFI) – Robert L. Read, PhD, Public Invention, April 2025 Note: This work is now obsolete; it was a prelude to a workshop. The project has evolved, we suggest you look here. In early 2025, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and National Science Foundation (NSF)’s normal funding processes were disrupted.

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Mentorship and Teamwork: The Story of the Krake

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Development of a Wi-Fi Enabled, Wireless Medical Alarm Device: the Krake One of Public Invention’s most prominent projects, the General Purpose Alarm Device, or GPAD, which was recently published in HardwareX, has developed into a wireless version called the Krake. Both versions aim to be used in a medical setting as a peripheral annunciator, connecting

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Recognition by RecognizedGood, Public Infrastructure, and Public Invention

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What is Public Infrastructure? Why is it important? Who is impacted by it or involved in it? All of these questions are valid and crucial to understanding the limitations of current supply chains and enterprise-based innovation. More specifically, a critical weakness of production, manufacture, or supply of commodities by corporations is the lack of modularization

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Did you know your support carries a 3-fold impact?

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Support Public Invention and Humanitarian Engineering Have you ever wondered where all those individuals that take part in humanitarian efforts come from? Like, how do they get initial funding and grow? Even if a group like this existed and took off, how could I contribute to something like this? Well look no further because we

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Please Support our Portable Incubator Project at Experiment.com

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Fund Public Invention’s Portable Incubator Project Out of a pressing need I discovered as a volunteer for Engineers Without Borders USA, Public Invention has been working on a portable incubator for several years now. We recently got a great new volunteer, Melanie Laporte, who is being invention coached by Forrest “Lee” Erickson. We’ve create our

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