Maybe you can save a lot of babies.
保育器の値段ってご存じでしょうか。未熟児の赤ちゃんを寝かせる、ケースみたいなものです。あれが実は4万5,000ドル（約520万円）くらいする場合もあって、先進国ならともかく、発展途上国の病院とか助産院さんが買うには難しいものでした。そこで従来の100分の1以下の価格で手に入る保育器がデザインされ、見事ダイソン・アワードの国際最優秀賞を受賞しました。"Western nations use childcare devices," said James Dyson."We didn't think about the inefficient design of the conventional childcare organs in developing countries and disaster areas." Dyson is known for the breakthrough vacuum cleaner design.However, the Dyson Awards operates the Dyson Foundation, a non -profit organization to nurture young inventors, and is held once a year as part of that.
This year's international work was inspired by statistics on childbirth in developing countries.According to the World Health Organization (WHO), 15 million babies are born every year as premature babies, of which one million are prone to premature babies, especially hypothermia.For example, in Uganda, 85 % of hospitalized babies are hypothermia.Looking at refugee camp alone, 275,000 babies died every year due to a lack of heat retention environment each year.
So 23 -year -old British college student, James Roberts, created a childcare device "MOM".MOM is a childcare device that is used to inflate and has a small folding design.Both ends are hard plastic, spreading like accordions when inflated, and plastic beds to let your baby sleep inside.The battery of the car can be used as a power supply so that it can be used even in places without normal power supply.
The price of MOM is only $ 400 (about 46,000 yen).Roberts sold his car to make his first working prototype, but he received 30,000 pounds (approximately 5.5 million yen) by the Dyson Award award, and this project could be further advanced.rice field.By the way, he will also be awarded a prize of £ 10,000 (about 1.8 million yen) to his university.
In addition to Roberts's childcare devices, there are some inexpensive devices for improving the health status of infants in developing countries.For example, co.EXIST introduced in August EMBRACE is a childcare device created by Stanford University Student team, which has been used for more than $ 25 (approximately 2,900 yen), which is actually used and has won several awards.Embrace is assumed to be users not only for hospitals but also for mothers who give birth, and the MOM may be inferior to the price alone.
However, EMBRACE is a childcare device that focuses on reducing the price anyway.MOM, on the other hand, assumes a slightly different usage, and is not the mothers themselves, and the midwifery and hospitals that cannot be reached by millions of yen for millions of yen.In addition to maintaining the body temperature of the baby, it has a temperature and humidity control, and it has a special light for jaundice treatment.
"This childcare device is not necessarily the only developing country that is useful for developing a childcare device," said Dr. Bernie Marden, a pediatrician and neonatal doctor."You can imagine how to use local midwife in the UK and follow birth at home."
This year's Dyson Awards had many other good ideas.However, there are many millions of babies that benefit from this MOM, and there is no comparable thing in terms of reach.The top 20 including other works can be seen here, so please check it out.
Source: James Dyson Awards
Kelsey Campbell -Dollaghan -Gizmodo US [Original]
(MIHO)