Introducing Trans Tanz
June 26, 2009 by Simon Berry · Leave a Comment
Meet the people of the Trans Tanz Project. And a big thank you to them for helping the ColaLife Campaign by taking these photos and sending them in.
Trans Tanz is a charitable organisation that works in the Bagamoyo district of Tanzania with a local community based organisation called UKUN. Together they provide free transport for people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) in rural areas to access antiretroviral (ARV) drugs. These drugs are available without charge, but many poor Tanzanians living with HIV/AIDS are unable to afford the cost of public transport to access them. Our project will help keep hundreds of PLWHA alive.
Seeing these pictures, thinking and talking about the Trans Tanz project makes you think. “What about personalised aidpods”, my partner cried! An aidpod with your name on it and the drugs inside it that you need.
ColaLife to play Glastonbury!
June 24, 2009 by Simon Berry · 2 Comments
Thanks to the ‘can-do’ attitude of two people in particular: Robert Richards at Worthy Farm and my son, Sam, the ColaLife animation will be screened throughout the Glastonbury festival on the 25 square metre double screen at William’s Green. Please tweet @colalife if you see it!
I’ve written to Michael Eavis
June 22, 2009 by Simon Berry · Leave a Comment
Last week the ColaLife animation (below) registered 8,000 views on YouTube. Not bad. But it deserves a much bigger audience - don’t you think?
So last week I wrote to Michael Eavis to see if he’d be willing to show it on the big screens at the Glastonbury Festival. I included the animation on CD. Watch this space!
Still photos of the Mark III AidPod
June 20, 2009 by Simon Berry · 1 Comment
Here are some still photos of the Mark III AidPod as a Flickr set or as a slide show below:
Update:
Video explanation of the Mark III AidPod design
Introducing the Mark III ColaLife AidPod
June 17, 2009 by Simon Berry · 8 Comments
This short video describes the features of our third version of the ColaLife AidPod.
The key features are:
- It has the same cross-section as the Mark II aidpod
- It is a two-part design: the lid and the container sections (first sketched here)
- The lid fits over a collar which is the same length as the inside of the lid so that longitudinal crushing will not occur
- The length of the ‘closed’ AidPod, with the lid in place, is the same as the internal dimensions of a Coca-Cola crate so the AidPod cannot burst open when in transit in the crate
- The shoulders of the AidPod which run along its length mean the aidpod clips below the lip of the crated bottles. This helps prevent the AidPod from popping out of the crate and also gives the AidPod longitudinal strength
- Aid Pods could be of two different lengths to either fit the crates width-wise or length-wise: shorter AidPods would be stronger and up to five could be carried per crate. The length-wise AidPod is long enough to carry a LifeStraw and up to three could be inserted per crate
Onwards and upwards. 
Update:
Still images of the Mark III AidPod
Innovation need not be complicated - giant aidpod installed at NESTA
June 11, 2009 by Simon Berry · 4 Comments
After work today I popped along to NESTA as a little bird had told me that the giant aidpod had landed there. And here it is. I got quite emotional! NESTA’s strapline is ‘making innovation flourish’ so it will get attention it deserves here.
Thanks are due to many but allow me to give a special mention to Helen Milner of UK online centres, Mark Pearce from theWorkshop in Sheffield and Todd Somerville at NESTA as key to making this happen.
Will a LifeStraw fit in an AidPod?
June 8, 2009 by Simon Berry · Leave a Comment
Over the weekend I got a message from ColaLife Facebook Group member Matthew Carter in South Africa. It went like this:
The answer Matthew is ‘Yes’!
The problem is that we only have cardboard models of the AidPod at the moment. We don’t even have a fully developed prototype and this is one of the reasons we are considering setting ColaLife up as an organisation so that we can raise money to develop and manufacture the aidpods. But we will probably not be quick enough for you Matthew.
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