Embrace Warmer
By ASPIREist | Just For A Minute. A baby blanket with life-saving technology embedded in the seams.
How Embrace's infant warmer can save lives
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Meet 7 startups that are innovating for the developing world
Every day, we are awash with news of the latest gadgets, product launches and strategic moves of Internet giants. In this climate, it’s easy to lose sight of the important role technology can play in improving the lives of people around the world.<p>Twenty-three startups recently received awards for …
Developing CountriesInfant Warmer Created to Save Lives in Developing Countries
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Developing CountriesIn India, resource scarcity drives healthcare innovation
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InnovationWatch Embrace
Watch Embrace: A low cost infant warmer video on Moneycontrol Online. SEO_Every year 20 million premature babies are born globally and 450 of them …
What a Life-Saving Baby Warmer Taught Me About Technology
My route to starting my medical device company began over five years ago in a design school course at Stanford. My team was challenged to design a baby incubator that would cost one percent of the $20,000 cost of the incubators you'd see in a modern hospital -- a sum far beyond the means of many …
World Economic ForumThe NGO-business hybrid: more than the sum of its parts?
NGO-business hybrids offer the potential to do more for people and planet than non-profits or companies alone - but they have to overcome mutual scepticism first<p>Turning a profit hasn't traditionally been the sphere of your average non-governmental organisation. The people most inclined to want to …
Harvard Business SchoolA Solution for Poor Mothers, When Expensive Hospital Incubators Won't Do
<i>Tom and David Kelley of the award-winning Palo Alto-based global design firm</i><i>IDEO</i> <i>have been helping private and public sector organizations innovate,</i> …
The Economist Innovation Awards 2013
Social & Economic Innovation<p><b>Jane Chen, Rahul Panicker, Naganand Murty and Linus Liang, Inexpensive incubator for premature babies</b><p>Jane Chen, Rahul …
Extreme By Design
About the Program<p>At a time of unprecedented global challenges, the under-30 “millennial” generation has every reason to be fatalistic and disengaged. …
Brad Pitt’s Modest Oscars Proposal
“You know what I think they should do? I think we should just put a trophy on the table and like one of those car contests, we should all just put our hands on it and see who can hold it the longest.”<p>Oscar-nominated actor Brad Pitt appeared on John Stewart last night and offered what sounds like …
Meet 7 startups that are innovating for the developing world
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The Embrace Infant Warmer Acts As A Cheap Incubator For Developing Countries
In developing countries, low birth weight babies don't always have the luxury of an incubator to help them. Hopefully this $25 Embrace Infant Warmer …
Developing CountriesEmbrace infant sleeping bags save lives
<b>(10-01) 13:16 PDT San Francisco</b> -- In 2009, shortly after Jane Chen moved to India, she met a young woman who had watched helplessly as each of her three babies died.<p>Sujatha's small village, two hours outside of Bangalore, lacked the incubators and other medical technology that might have saved …
The low cost technology saving premature babies' lives
BBC News, Bangalore<p><b>Every year more than 20 million babies are born prematurely or with low birth weight - and an estimated 450 of them die each hour.</b><p>Special Report: The Technology of BusinessCan smartphones clean your house?Tech to free your inner shopaholicIs there life after Photoshop?Happy …
Simple Tech Creates Infant Warmer To Save Lives In Developing Countries
According to the World Health Organization, there are more than 20 million low birth weight preterm babies born annually globally. More startling, more than four million die within their first month.<p>More than 60% of preterm births occur in Africa and South Asia, but preterm birth is a global …
InnovationA warm embrace that saves lives
In the developing world, access to incubators is limited by cost and distance, and millions of premature babies die each year. TED Fellow Jane Chen …
Embrace Infant Warmers Impact Babies Lives India
The Embrace India Program serves under-resourced health care centers and hospitals in Uttar Pradesh, Karnataka, Gujarat, Bihar and Uttarakhand. …
Embrace
Embrace is a social enterprise that aims to help millions of vulnerable babies through a low cost infant warmer, designed for a resource constrained …