Simplicity

A pet card for pet sitters

You leave your animal with friends for a week and spend half an hour explaining what to feed it, where the food is, which pills it takes, who to call. A simple card on the fridge …

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★ 4.73 marks

A smartphone app called "Mutual Interest"

Masha likes Petya, but Petya doesn't know it. And Petya likes Masha, but Masha doesn't know it. What's to be done? Could a smartphone solve this?

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★ 4.33 marks

An ambulance call button in the homes of retirees

The problem of quality medical care is getting more and more acute by the day. Russians' discontent is growing by the minute.

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★ 4.52 marks

Build your own pool table!

Why build a table yourself when you can just buy one at a store? First, a store-bought table will cost an order of magnitude more than one you put together yourself. And if you've…

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★ 4.52 marks

A utility bill in plain human language

The bill has twenty lines, half the names aren't explained anywhere, and it's impossible to figure out what exactly made the total go up. What we need isn't a new form but a short…

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★ 5.01 mark

A book swap shelf on the ground floor

We put a simple shelf in the building's entryway: bring a book you've read, take another one. No tracking or sign-out sheets, just one rule: "take one, bring something in its plac…

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★ 5.01 mark

Medication reminders for the elderly

An elderly person takes five medications on different schedules and gets mixed up. Apps don't work well for them. What's needed is a box with compartments and a simple sound signa…

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★ 5.01 mark

Inserts for cigarette packs

That cover up those awful pictures. Do you smoke? Don't the pictures on the back of the pack get on your nerves? That's exactly what they're there for - to get on your nerves! But…

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★ 5.01 mark

Convenient bike rental.

A bike rental where you can leave the bike anywhere.

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★ 4.02 marks

The pickup deadline in plain sight, not in an app

A parcel sits at the pickup point for a limited time, and you learn about it from a notification long since lost among all the others. It would be enough to print the date in big …

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★ 4.01 mark