# Project Description
Guy Turner
10033242@network.rca.ac.uk
guyturner.io
linkedin.com
About
Guy is a multidisciplinary designer, engineer, and strategist whose work explores innovation across environmental & health tech, disruptive consumer products, and applications of the Internet of Things and edge machine learning.
Duco
His latest work, Duco, explores non-invasive methods of continually sensing hormones to aid in the management of hormonal health conditions. These conditions affect over 2% of the adult population, including cortisol insufficiency, abnormal sex hormone levels, and steroid treatment for conditions such as vasculitis, among others. Treatment for these conditions often involves complicated prescriptions, regular blood tests, and serious side effects. Currently, clinicians’ primary means for hormone diagnostics is through blood tests. In line with the revolution seen in diabetic glucose monitors, simple continuous hormone monitoring would transform treatment.
Duco is the world’s first wearable medical device for continuous hormone monitoring. Needing no needle, Duco is stuck on the inside of the bicep, collecting small amounts of perspiration from the skin. Sweat is analysed hourly with results shared to your phone for immediate treatment insights, acting as a relay between you and your clinician to manage your treatment remotely. Duco is also the first of its kind in sustainable medical wearables with reusable electronics and recyclable pods, which are easily changed every two weeks. Duco allows you to lead your hormonal health, with no needle required.
Sixth Sense
His previous work with Daphné Biestro and Cyrus Richards includes Sixth Sense, a wearable biodiversity sensor which logs the ecological health of an ecosystem as you hike. The device has the form-factor of a credit card, and is passively powered through NFC, ensuring it is accessible and low-cost. Sixth Sense aims to democratise ecological surveying to all, allowing anyone to contribute to the fight against the climate crisis in their local environment.
Chair of Cards
Chair of Cards is a flat-pack chair made from aluminium. Inspired by the challenge of recycling modern mass-consumer furniture made of composite materials, the design utilises a mono-material approach needing no fastenings. The flat form of the chair fits on a single sheet of 3mm aluminium, which can be tesselated for mass production, minimising offcut waste. The chair is assembled by bending a series of perforated lines and slotting together, creating a robust chair, alongside providing the illusion of a stack of playing cards.
Awards
InnovationRCA Patent Award
Industrial Design Studentship, Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851
Whitworth Award, Institution of Mechanical Engineers & Whitworth Society
Royal College of Art Vice Chancellor’s Award
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