This strange looking device offers a great solution for the 10 million Americans who suffer from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Instead of relying on medications and strenuous coughing to help clear up unhealthy amounts of mucus in their lungs, now they can vibrate it out with the Lung Flute. The Lung Flute, which is close to receiving its FDA approval, was created by
Sandy Hawkins and provides 16-hertz vibration in the user's torso just by blowing air through it.
Hawkins had been trying to make a device to produce these vibrations for years, but he couldn't come up with one that was portable, inexpensive, and human-powered until he took a big step back and thought about different existing ways to create vibrations and remembered the reed of woodwind instruments. What I walk away with was this, if what your doing isn't working, then try and think of something else that does the same thing in another application. Inspiration is all around us.
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