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I wanted to share one of our producer's amazing idea: a $25 Infant Incubator design called Embrace. http://www.embraceglobal.org/

This Incubator is designed for extreme affordability to help serve the over 20 million babies born premature each year that can not afford $20,000 conventional incubators. Embrace does all the critical stuff for a fraction of the cost.

The basic design of the product is a "sleeping bag". Heat is provided by a pouch containing phase change material (PCM,) placed in a safe compartment within the sleeping bag. To heat the PCM, the user simply pours hot water into compartment, upon indication by a thermal strip. This device uses no electricity, has no moving parts, and works for over 4 hours without needing to be reheated.

The product could save millions of babies. The design was awarded the Echoing Green Fellowship and is currently one of 25 Finalists for the American Express Members Project.