INDEX:Award 2009 | Freeplay Fetal Heart Rate Monitor

http://www.designtoimprovelife.dk -- John Hutchinson, CTO of Freeplay Energy in Cape Town, has accepted the INDEX:Award 2009 in the Body category for the Freeplay Fetal Heart Rate Monitor.

This design puts state-of-the-art childbirth technology into the hands of midwives and doctors in rural Africa and other developing regions in a wind-up format, so no outside source of electricity is needed. Developed with the assistance of Prof. John Wyatt, MD, of University College London. INDEX: Design to Improve Life gives the richest prize for design in the world -- 500,000 euros -- on a biennial basis, as the Danish government's outreach program for humanitarian design. Design to Improve Life is Denmark's INDEX: to a better world.

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