TIME: Best Inventions of 2022
Announcement - TIME: Best Inventions of 2022
TIME: Best Inventions of 2022
Rediroom - Instant Patient Isolation Room (Medical Care)
LAVO Green Hydrogen Energy Battery (Sustainability)
TIME reveals its annual list of the Best Inventions, which features 200 extraordinary innovations changing our lives.
To compile the list, TIME solicited nominations from TIME’s editors and correspondents around the world, and through an online application process, paying special attention to growing fields—such as the electric vehicle industry, green energy, and the metaverse. TIME then evaluated each contender on a number of key factors, including originality, efficacy, ambition, and impact.
Of the new list, TIME’s editors write: “The result is a list of 200 groundbreaking inventions (and 50 special mention inventions)—including life-mapping artificial intelligence, diamonds made from excess carbon in the air, and the most powerful telescope ever—that are changing how we live, work, play, and think about what’s possible.”
See the Full List of the Best Inventions of 2022 here →
GAMA Healthcare + Care Strategic: Rediroom | TIME Best Inventions of 2022 (Category: Medical Care)
Rediroom is the world’s first instant temporary patient isolation room. Able to be deployed on-demand, in any ward environment and fully operational in five minutes, Rediroom is designed as an alternative to hospitals needing to build permanent, expensive and space-consuming isolation facilities that may only be used occasionally. Rediroom enables hospitals to safely + effectively control pathogens and outbreaks, reducing the spread of infection. Developed by D+I, GAMA Healthcare + CARE Strategic — Rediroom conforms with Australian health facility guidelines + UK Department of Health (NHS) Guidance on “Infection Control in the Built Environment”. Rediroom has been deployed in a number of UK Hospitals to help assist with the effective isolation of COVID-19 positive patients + patients awaiting test results.
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LAVO | Green Hydrogen Energy Battery: TIME Best Inventions of 2022 (Category: Sustainability)
The world’s first integrated hybrid hydrogen battery that combines with rooftop solar to deliver sustainable, reliable and renewable power to your home and business. Developed in partnership with UNSW and Design + Industry, LAVO™ is a hydrogen hybrid battery that stores over 40kWh of electricity – enough to power the average Australian home for 2 days. Integrating with standard rooftop solar, LAVO™ generates green hydrogen for renewable power when you need it. Globally competitive + strikingly styled, contemporary lines of the main system and the iconic hydride vessels place LAVO™ at the leading edge of architectural inspired aesthetics.
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About D+I:
D+I is a product design and development consultancy with studios based in Melbourne, Sydney and Newcastle. D+I offers an integrated product design, engineering, electronics, and production management service (ISO 13485:2016 Certified) — delivering successful commercial outcomes by creating class-leading products and user experiences for local and global markets. The team at D+I is internationally recognised for design and engineering excellence, validated by having won over 235 local and international industry awards. Over three decades, D+I has established itself as a trusted + proven partner to industry innovators looking to translate ideas + discoveries into commercialised real-world solutions.
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