A prize winning project (RSA SDA's 2017 Wearing Intelligence brief) redesign of the urinary catheter leg bag, with more focus on user dignity and application of modern technology. The project was originally done as a two week university module, then continued as a downtime project alongside my dissertation and was presented to the judging panel at the RSA, London, and exhibited at New Designers 2017.
The aim of this project was to create a concept for a discreet, easy to use active-pumping urinary leg bag. With the use of Artificial Muscles around a fluid bag, a peristaltic pumping mechanism similar to a human bladder is used to pump fluid from a bag on the upper leg to the crotch, where a nozzle in the underpants can evacuate into a toilet, in a manner simulating natural urination.
The design also has scope to embed wireless technology to interface with other devices e.g. a nursing station in a care home, or to a mobile device to send push notifications when full.
