Innovators Under 35
INNOVATIVE Humanitarians
Finding the technology solutions that can directly
improve, and sometimes save, people’s lives.y solutions that can directly improve, and sometimes save, people’s
lives.
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H1. Eyad Janneh, 31
Field
Ready
Rescuing endangered civilians in Syria,
using local materials.
In
the video, two flat black bags resembling large hot-water bottles expand
slowly, gradually lifting a collapsed concrete-and-rebar wall and creating a
space between the wall and a mound of rocks beneath. The film shows a test of a
design by Eyad Janneh and his team at nonprofit Field Ready that is now being
deployed in Syria, where it is used to lift heavy debris during searches for
civilians following bomb attacks.
Janneh was raised in
Syria but left in 2010 and now works in Istanbul. His team designs and tests
tools that can be made locally from available materials. The airbags, for
example, are made from a polyester fabric with a rubber sheet cover and some
binding accessories—repurposing materials already being used as covers
for cargo trucks. In April one of these airbags was used in Syria to help
rescue two people trapped in rubble.
—Nanette Byrnes
—Nanette Byrnes
MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEW
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