Parents would have gone through the motions in the past when it comes to caring for a sick child, and that would include taking down your little one’s temperature whenever there is a fever. Normally, a thermometer would do the trick, and if that happens to be too old fashioned for you, perhaps using a digital thermometer might be your cup of tea. Why not go further with the iTherm? The iTherm happens to be a bracelet which can measure the human temperature using a smartphone, now how about that? In fact, it works great by letting you set alarms to alert you whenever the temperature has reached a certain limit so that necessary action can be taken.
The idea of the iTherm was born when Marcos Oliva, an entrepreneur and founder of the project, saw his firstborn experience the very first cold and fever, with the paediatrician informing him to “Watch out that the temperature does not get too high by giving him antipyretics every 8 hours for 2 days. If there is no improvement bring him back.”
Instead of organizing shifts to watch over the baby’s fever between both parents, the iTherm would step in. Relying on Bluetooth 4.0 connectivity, a temperature sensor is attached to a bracelet, where placing it in the child’s arm would allow one to monitor the temperature without having to disturb the little one’s sleep. Not only that, this particular system can set alarms to wake parents up should the temperature hit a determined level. Right now, iTherm remains as an Indiegogo project.
Filed in . Read more about Crowdfunding.