Arcking
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Older article, but still need to see 4Runners fulfilling other roles!
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/16/health/16incubators.html?_r=1&nl=8hlth&emc=hltha1
In his discussions with doctors who practice in impoverished settings, Dr. Rosen learned that no matter how remote the locale, there always seemed to be a Toyota 4Runner in working order.
It was his “Aha!” moment, he recalled later: Why not make the incubator out of new or used car parts, and teach local auto mechanics to be medical technologists?
Cimit then hired Design That Matters, a nonprofit firm in Cambridge, Mass., to design the machine. “The idea was to start with a 4Runner,” said Timothy Prestero, the firm’s founder and chief executive, “and take away all the parts that weren’t an incubator.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/16/health/16incubators.html?_r=1&nl=8hlth&emc=hltha1
In his discussions with doctors who practice in impoverished settings, Dr. Rosen learned that no matter how remote the locale, there always seemed to be a Toyota 4Runner in working order.
It was his “Aha!” moment, he recalled later: Why not make the incubator out of new or used car parts, and teach local auto mechanics to be medical technologists?
Cimit then hired Design That Matters, a nonprofit firm in Cambridge, Mass., to design the machine. “The idea was to start with a 4Runner,” said Timothy Prestero, the firm’s founder and chief executive, “and take away all the parts that weren’t an incubator.”
