Ergonomic Otoscope (patent pending)
Team: Rulifson, Faludi, Cimbalo

Initial Prototypes

"The faster you get your failures prototyped, the faster you can get on to a good solution."

In the roughest of prototyping rounds we took our sketches and made them into something real. Pretty amazing what feedback you can get with a turkey baster hot glued to a PVC tube.

We proceeded to explore the "vulcan" option, as it seemed to be most promising in terms of our core goals:

• range of hand sizes and hand positions
  
• more contact with head = better control of procedure
  
• small relative battery weight
  
• friendlier look
  
• larger imaging area = better diagnosis