- Seed
- Daye
- Invevo (nice pink marketing)
- THE NEED FOE SWAB?: Harley street private gut microbiome clinic. Ask their perspective on sampling tools / swabs and patient opinion. Ask to interview – how do people digest the process
- COST: Is there a way to minimise the cost? Make it more accessible? Focus on certain cultures? Invevo has maybe done this?
- MATERIALS: but plug as alternative material instead of inserting plastic swab device (look into skin microbial testing using sticker) think about lambs skin, natural latex, hyper allergenic?
- DESIGN: but hole mechanics, what shapes are comfortable/pleasurable. Have some designs ready to make next week. If the device was an applicator, how does it hold a swab, how does it get cleaned? Also what are the surrounding processes eg plastic tubes and instructions etc think about nerve endings. Look into tampon applicators and pessaries.
- VIBRATION: make connections that it could affect the body’s intake of nutrients? Is there a variety of frequencies that could do different things or is this speculation / creative license? What tech do I need to make a device vibrate?
- QUESTIONS: microbiome profiling isn’t there yet… swabs are used so sampling can be done without needing to travel in the post… is it about the room at the clinic? could the project become about all the microbiomes? pleasure tools for the body? or about sampling to broaden the data base
Research:
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THINKING RESEARCH 