Low Tech Low Cost Incubators Could Be Used To Save Undersized Infants From Deaths
Vinh Nguyen
Posted on January 28th, 2010
Sometimes technology doesn’t have to be complicated to save a life. In this case, a technology that is simple as an infant size sleeping bag with a special material that could be melt at human temperature to create a temperature that could provide warmth for undersized infants; in this way the undersized infants do not have to face deaths due to their little bodies that had so little fat that they could not generate a correct body temperature. It’s low tech and super affordable since getting one of these low tech infant incubator is only costing around $25; comparing this to an incubator in a hospital that could cost up to $25,000 is like day and night. More importantly, this low tech incubator could be distributed around the world where poor countries need most! Check out the video which introduces us all to this low tech incubator for infants after the jump!
