AWARD YEAR
2015
CATEGORY
Body
GOALS
Good Health & Well-being
KEYWORDS
Ebola, diseases, Africa
COUNTRY
Spain
DESIGNED BY
Ariel Martín Pérez and Howard Boyle
WEBSITE
https://openideo.com/challenge/fighting-ebola/highlights/gloves-against-ebola
Gloves Against Ebola
A glove design that allows you to take off gloves without touching them - thus preventing Ebola.
How to take off gloves without producing additional biological contamination? The Gloves Against Ebola design enables the user to take off gloves without using his/her hands.
Gloves are renforced around the border and they have a small ring. By hooking the ring on a hook and pulling the glove sideways, it can be taken off without using the other hand. Afterwards, a small touch is enough for it to fall from the hook and into a biological waste bin. There are hooks pointing both ways so one glove can be taken off before the other. A security seal on the rings could be implemented so they don't get hooked on other elements in the hospital.