Cutting Board for Use with One Hand

Cutting Board for Use with One Hand - open-source assistive technology product by the 2021 TOM Global Innovation Challenge (GIC) community

About this project

Cutting Board for Use with One Hand is a simple, cheap, and easy to manufacture solution with metal clip handles that are attached to an existing thin cutting board and a vegetable catcher that attaches to the center of the board allows cutting and transferring vegetables to a bowl with one hand.

The challenge

People with one functioning hand have often find it hard to be independent in the kitchen. Cutting board for use with one hand provides independence in several operations in the cooking process.

Cutting board for use with one hand was developed in collaboration with the therapeutic kitchen at Loewenstein rehabilitation hospital. The product was designed for one hand functioning.

Who it helps

Metal clips handles that interface to an existing thin cutting board, and a vegetable catcher that attaches to the center of the board and allows cutting and transferring vegetables to a bowl with one hand.

How it works

This product is accessible to the public thanks to TOM's partnership with Poalim for the Community.

Cutting board for use with one hand won the most inclusive design award at the 2021 Global Innovation Challenge.

You can learn more about the challenge on the GIC website or browse the projects on the GIC community page .

The team: Raz Israel, Nitzan Tabib

The product is intended for people with one functioning hand due to amputation, stroke, or other conditions.

Cutting board for use with one hand was designed with and for Shiri and the therapeutic kitchen team at Loewenstein rehabilitation hospital . The team developed the solution as part of the "Fixperts" course in the Industrial Design department at Holon Institue of Technology and have won the Most Inclusive Design award at GIC 2021 👏.

People with one functioning hand have difficulty functioning independently in the kitchen. Our product facilitates them in several operations in the cooking process and allows them independence in trivial operations in the kitchen.

We found a simple, cheap and easy to manufacture solution. Any “Handyman” can produce our product easily. The feedback we received from the patients in the therapeutic kitchen was very gratifying. The product seems to have met their needed.

Product Specs

Approximate Cost of materials: USD $20

Machine time: 1 hour

Assembly time: 0.2 hours

Project details

The build files for Cutting Board for Use with One Hand are free to download from this page - open source, shared by TOM: Tikkun Olam Makers.

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