With global demand for ventilators skyrocketing due to the coronavirus pandemic, an Australian designer has created a low-tech prototype using everyday items, like a bucket and bicycle wheels, that could be used in hospitals in developing countries.Sam Canning, an industrial design lecturer at Queensland's Griffith University in northeastern Australia, told Kyodo News he was inspired to make the ventilator prototype after hearing how a doctor in Papua New Guinea used a ventilator bag to save a woman's life."A doctor in PNG had a lady who'd just given birth. (There were) lots of complication…READ FULL ARTICLE
