Wearables UNICEF – Here are the contest finalists

Will there ever be UNICEF wearables? I don't know, but a competition launched in May by theUNICEF, ARM and Frog was intended to encourage designers and developers to come up with innovative wearable ideas.

These UNICEF wearables, or at least these wearable ideas, were meant to help children in developing countries. The two winners will receive $ 15,000 in funding to help them realize their idea with the support of ARM and Frog Design; two giants of the high-tech sector.

Among the ideas put forward were: portable water purifiers, a malaria alert system and even a device to stop child abuse. The participants in this competition came from many countries around the world: from the United States to India and Africa. Denise Gershbein, Creative Director at Frog explained that: “Wearables are no longer just devices that we carry with us to measure our heart rate or to count our steps. They can now be integrated into networks and have a significant sustainable social aspect. "

Denise Gershbein continues, "We are delighted to help the 10 finalists meet this challenge and join this global community that is seeking new potential uses for these portable devices. The next step is therefore to transform ideas into functional prototypes.

The full list of finalists is:

– Communicaid, United States: a bracelet that allows you to follow a drug treatment

– Droplet, USA: a portable wrist water purification device

– Guard Band, Vietnam: a bracelet that helps protect children from abuse

– Khushi Baby, India and the United States: a collar to follow the vaccination of children in the first two years of their life

– Raksh, India: a device worn in the ear to monitoring a child's breathing, heart rate, body temperature and relative breath humidity

– Soapen, India and the United States: a device that encourages hand washing in young children

– Telescrypts, East Africa and the United States: a portable device that measures taking vital signs and sends them to doctors

– TermoTell, Nigeria and the United States: a bracelet used to monitoring and analyze a child's temperature in real time to save the lives of children exposed to malaria

– Totem Open Health Patch, The Netherlands: a small sensor-based device that is part of a larger health-oriented system

– WAAA!, United Kingdom: a sensor-based neonatal health surveillance tool

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AB SMART HEALTH REVIEW