Digital health startup ID Guardian, formerly iDerma, raised $400,000 from London-based investors to bring its health-sensing plush bear to market, according to a post from TechCrunch.
The handmade stuffed animal, called Teddy the Guardian, is embedded with sensors that monitor a child’s health. The bear senses a child’s pulse, body temperature, and oxygen saturation when children put their finger...
Mimo onesie and "turtle" device
Last week, Boston-based Rest Devices, maker of a smart baby monitor attached to a onesie called Mimo launched a campaign on crowdfunding site Dragon Innovation. The baby monitor connects to a smartphone and tracks the baby's respiration, skin temperature, body position and activity level and offers an audio feed in real-time.
But this isn't even the first baby...
