Teddy the Guardian, a bear who watches over your children

In childhood, the teddy bear represents a defender, a friend. Without going as far as Calvin and Hobbes' performances, Teddy the guardian is aptly named.

Teddy the guardian, a smart health connected teddy bear

There was already a sensor smart health connected to the child to define, among other things, the room temperature, here, it is more specifically the child that we are taking care of. The papatas of this teddy bear are equipped with multiple sensors to determine the heartbeat, oxygen saturation and temperature.

To do this, the child must hold one of the paws of the bear, it is then instantly captured its heartbeat and his oxygenation rate. To be sure of the temperature, however, you have to go through the application to ask it to calculate it, all that remains is to put the furry hand of the bear on its forehead.

The data recovered in a few seconds is transmitted in real time to the smartphone with the application.

A little technology

The Teddy the Guardian app allows you to monitoring temperature changes. It also performs reminders and provides the ability to create a family of phones that will benefit from the data.

The information is transmitted by Bluetooth, nevertheless, its creators planned everything, for hospitals in particular, a version of Teddy in Wi-Fi was created.

The materials used are European and the assembly is planned to be able to pass to the washing machine and prevent the child from electrocuting with the sensors.

This Croatian company benefited from an English investment fund for an amount of $ 400,000 and now sells its teddy bear at the price of 169 euros, it will have it exported to European hospitals by April 2015.

This teddy bear has the advantage of not traumatizing the child with thermometers or other devices. It reassures parents and provides information that is usually lacking and that is important, including the oxygenation rate of children with asthma.

On the other hand, it is not won that a child spontaneously goes to hold the hand of his teddy bear, it is more likely that he drools on his ear … Therefore, it will certainly be necessary to hold the hand of the child on the paw of the bear at the risk of upsetting it and causing a refusal of the said comforter.

There is one last point on which your devoted editor could not find an answer, how long does this bear last? this however seems essential to him…

source: techcrunch.com

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