This week I learned about the market and build feasibilities of different products. I focused in on the design I had used for week 6 to gain a better understanding. In my opinion, a lot of what market feasibility is is the perception of a product to...More

This week was really eye opening for me on how technology spreads. It is unbelievable to me that a product that can prevent so much pain and death would not catch on in the masses, especially a product that doesn't seem difficult to grasp. In the ex...More

This weeks lecture taught me a lot about the business model for a great idea. Sometimes, a great ideas isn't enough. As the video showed, the same idea will get more backers if the do group feedback sessions rather than individual meetings with poss...More

This week we delved into deeper meanings behind needs rather than just the physical beings we needed in last weeks paper. I re-watched all of the videos and tried to understand the emotional needs of the communities in the videos. For that you neede...More

This week we saw video comparisons between clinics and hospitals in West Africa and the United States. It was unbelievable the disparity of the hospitals in West Africa. The first clinic, had basically no medical equipment, other than tools to take...More

In this lecture I have learned how difficult it is for the people of West Africa to receive the same health care as those in more developed countries. I was genuinely surprised when I discovered that in underdeveloped countries cell phones and glass...More

This week's lecture was very eye opening for me. I knew that life expectancy and living conditions in underdeveloped communities were harsh, but I did not know that they were this bad. The biggest shocker to me, was what I wrote my report about: lif...More