AWARD YEAR
2019
CATEGORY
Body
GOALS
Good Health & Well-being
KEYWORDS
Distributable, Value, Reproducible
COUNTRY
Italy
DESIGNED BY
About FABCARE
FABCARE, is an experimental initiative created and developed to stimulate independent designers, makers and innovators to design open source products in healthcare, which can be distributed through digital platforms and materialize in Fab Labs. FABCARE is designed, coordinated and developed by Polifactory all inside the Distributed Design Market Platform project.
Ilaria Vitali
Mila Stepanovic
Patrizia Bolzan
WEBSITE
http://www.polifactory.polimi.it/polifactory_progetti/ddmp-fabcare
Mole Mapper
Mole Mapper is a small tool for skin cancer prevention. It can be used to self-check all skin moles.
Throughout the years, is important to examine your own skin, in particular if you have many skin moles and fair skin. Self-exams can help you identify potential skin cancers early, when they can almost always be completely cured. For a successful self-exam you obviously need to know what you are looking for: that is the aim of Mole Mapper. It is a small tool, made with lasercut PMMA scraps, that summarizes what physicians call “the ABCDE of melanoma”, the warning signs to recognize changes in the moles on your body.
With Mole Mapper you can:
• Check if your moles are bigger than 6mm
• Check if your moles are asymmetical
• Be reminded to control moles’ borders, color, and evolution in time
• Easily snap a picture of your mole, to control it is evolution and
dimensions
MoleMapper comes with a postcards with all instructions. The postcard doubles as packaging f
