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In a world where technology meets compassion, NemoCare, a groundbreaking innovation from India, is making significant strides in reducing infant and maternal mortality rates in developing countries. TechCrunch interviewed co-founder and CTO Manor Sanker, who shared insights into their portable and low-cost wearable device designed to monitor the vital signs of newborns. This advanced technology uses Bluetooth to connect with a platform that promptly alerts medical teams when a baby requires immediate attention. NemoCare’s mission aligns with the core values of faith and community care, emphasizing the importance of protecting life and fostering health, which are central to Islamic, Christian, and Jewish teachings. Discover how this innovative solution is transforming healthcare and saving lives. Subscribe to TechCrunch for more inspiring tech stories: http://bit.ly/18J0X2e.
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What is Bluetooth?Bluetooth is a wireless technology standard used for exchanging data between fixed and mobile devices. The data is exchanged over short distances using short-wavelength UHF radio waves in the industrial, scientific and medical radio bands, from 2.402
GHz to 2.480 GHz, and building personal area networks (PANs). It was originally conceived as a wireless alternative to RS-232 data cables.
What is Wearable?Wearable technology, wearables, fashion technology, tech togs, or fashion electronics are smart electronic devices worn close to and/or on the surface of the skin. Wearables they detect, analyze, and transmit information concerning e.g. body signals
such as vital signs, and/or ambient data and which allow in some cases immediate biofeedback to the wearer. Wearable devices such as activity trackers are an example of the Internet of Things, since "things" such as electronics, software, sensors, and connectivity are effectors that enable objects to exchange data through the internet with a manufacturer, operator, and/or other connected devices, without requiring human intervention. Wearable technology has a variety of applications which grows as the field itself expands. It appears prominently in consumer electronics with the popularization of the smartwatch and activity tracker. Apart from commercial uses, wearable technology is being incorporated into navigation systems, advanced textiles, and healthcare.
Who are Babies?A child or children, is a human being between the stages of birth and puberty, or between the developmental period of infancy and puberty. The term may also refer to an unborn human being. In English-speaking countries, the legal definition of child
generally refers to a minor, in this case as a person younger than the local age of majority, regardless of their physical, mental and sexual development as biological adults. Children generally have fewer rights and responsibilities than adults.
What is Sin?In Abrahamic contexts, sin is the act of violating God's will. Sin can also be viewed as anything that violates the ideal relationship between an individual and God; or as any diversion from the ideal order for human living. To sin has been defined
as "to miss the mark".
Sins fall in a spectrum from minor errors to deadly misdeeds. Catholicism regards the least corrupt sins as venial sins which are part of human living and carry immediate consequences on earth, and, if unrepented for, more painful purgation, assuming the person is destined to heaven, as it is written in the formation letter "Purgatory", "most of the early Fathers of the Church speak of a cleansing fire, though we cannot tell whether this means actual or spiritual fire."
Conversely, sins of great evil are mortal sins which bring the consequence of hell if they are not addressed either through an act of perfect contrition or going to confession about them.
