We just wrote about one of the two UNICEF Wearables for Good challenge winners (well, we lifted it from our sister site Health Tech Insider). There was another winner -- one that weds RFID with a cultural totem to help health-care workers know whether a kid has been vaccinated. In rural places, access to the Internet is limited, as is access to reliable written medical … [Read more...]
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SoaPen Wins UNICEF’s Wearables for Good Challenge
UNICEF’s Wearables for Good challenge -- hosted by UNICEF, Arm Holdings, and Frog -- found its two winners among 2,000 registrants and 250 design submissions. The key goal of the challenge was to identify the best products that can help fight infant mortality. One of the two winners is SoaPen, a wearable and portable soap designed to encourage children to wash their hands in … [Read more...]
UNICEF Announces 10 “Wearables for Good” Finalists
UNICEF has announced finalists for its "Wearables for Good" challenge, where entrepreneurs with wearable health startups are competing for one of two $15,000 prizes. The finalists come from seven countries, and present ideas ranging from encouraging hand-washing to tracking temperatures, APGAR scores, or immunizations. You can see the list of finalists and get more … [Read more...]
Wearables to Reduce Infant Mortality
WAAA! (wearable, anytime, anywhere, APGAR), a finalist in UNICEF’s Wearables for Good challenge, is designed to help newborns all over the world, especially the 40 million who are born without medical people attending them. APGAR (Appearance, Pulse, Grimace, Activity, Respiration) is the first test a newborn gets. WAAA! is a silicon band with a sensor module that measures a … [Read more...]