Tuesday, August 25, 2009

The $25 Incubator Aims to Save Countless Lives

Filed under: Pediatrics

A student project at Stanford University has led to the development of a low cost incubator powered by boiled water. Intended for premature babies born in the poor areas of the world, the $25 device is essentially a sleeping bag with a phase change material pouch that helps regulate the internal temperature of the child's environment.

The students involved in the development of the Embrace, which they hope can help thousands survive where $20,000 incubators are simply not to be found, have formed an organization called EmbraceGlobal.org to raise the money and distribute these units throughout the developing world.

Here's George Kembel, Executive Director of Stanford's Institute of Design (d.school), presenting the Embrace at the Chautauqua Institution in New York:

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Via d.school news...

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