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| Sensorised teddy bear tracks your baby’s health Posted: Teddy the Guardian is a plush toy made from organic cotton and wool and equipped with sensors that measure heart rate, blood pressure, oxygen levels, and temperature, while relaying the data via Bluetooth to a parent's smartphone. WHILE sensorised health tracking devices are a hot trend for adults, what about babies? A new start-up based out of Zagreb, Croatia, has developed and launched a new sensorised teddy bear for tracking the health stats of young children. Teddy the Guardian is a plush toy made from organic cotton and wool and equipped with sensors that measure heart rate, blood pressure, oxygen levels, and temperature, while relaying the data via Bluetooth to a parent's smartphone. TechCrunch reports that the bear's sensors are located in various places around its body – sensorised paws can track heart rate and oxygen levels, for example. One of the benefits of the bear is that it can help provide accurate, consistent data on a baby's vital signs, which sometimes can become skewed at a doctor's office where a child may become stressed. Plus, busy parents can keep tabs on their child's stress levels over the course of a particular day. Future versions include sensors for tracking blood sugar levels for diabetic children. While no launch date is set, Teddy the Guardian's sensors have already received FDA approval and the company, IDerma, hopes to seeks CE approval, plus they've received interest from markets in China and India – the increase in disposable income in rapidly developing countries has resulted in an interest in spending more money on a family's first-born child, IDerma co-founder Josipa Majic told TechCrunch. – AFP Relaxnews |
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