Imagine that you go to the bank to take out cash from the ATM. You will have to touch a surface that many others have had contact with throughout the day. It is not very common for someone to carry hand sanitizer and very few establishments offer it. On average you will have to wait 30 minutes to have access to soap and water to be able to properly wash your hands. During this time you will touch other objects that could host the virus. You yourself might be now carrying it and could leave traces on these objects that others in turn will touch and possibly become infected.

With prevention as our goal, we gave ourselves the challenge of designing in one day a better way to provide immediate disinfection, as well as redesign the current way of dispensing hand sanitizer.

We created small pearls that contain the necessary amount of gel to disinfect hands.

The pearls, very similar to hydrogel spheres, work in a very simple way: you just have to squeeze them softly to break them open and rub the contents on your hands. The external shell dissolves in the gel without leaving any residue.

Our idea is to also make the pearls easily and hygienically dispensable. We did not want to just create an object that provides a function for an individual, but to create a way of dispensing it to another simply and easily, as if you were offering your friend a piece of gum.

At the same time, placing a large amount of sanitizing pearls in an automatic dispenser, located in spaces where many people pass, can increase the reach of this product to individuals in need of disinfection, in a simple and efficient manner.

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Awards: A' Design Award. War on virus. 2nd place

Role: Research, Conceptualization, Design lead, Visualization

Team: Fernando Ventura, Luis González