{"id":1006,"date":"2014-01-19T00:09:51","date_gmt":"2014-01-18T23:09:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.malcolmhardie.com\/weblogs\/angus\/?p=1006"},"modified":"2025-02-01T03:04:14","modified_gmt":"2025-02-01T03:04:14","slug":"teddy-the-guardian-a-smart-toy-and-medical-sensor-device","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.malcolmhardie.com\/weblogs\/angus\/2014\/01\/19\/teddy-the-guardian-a-smart-toy-and-medical-sensor-device\/","title":{"rendered":"Teddy the Guardian &#8211; a smart toy and medical sensor device"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just saw details of this <a href=\"http:\/\/teddytheguardian.com\/\">new stuffed\/plush toy bear<\/a> that contains medical sensors, which seems absolutely wonderful as an idea.<\/p>\n<p>The idea is that instead of having to persuade a child patient to put up with various medical devices and sensors (like thermometers or heart rate sensors), the child just hugs a small toy bear, which contains the sensors. The data is sent wirelessly to a computer device that the doctor can then view.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a brilliant idea and I would think that anything that makes the time children spend in hospitals a little easier is a good thing.<\/p>\n<p>[Via <a href=\"http:\/\/ces.cnet.com\/8301-35301_1-57617429\/from-croatia-to-ces-the-story-of-teddy-the-guardians-unlikely-las-vegas-debut\/\">CNet Interview<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just saw details of this new stuffed\/plush toy bear that contains medical sensors, which seems absolutely wonderful as an idea. The idea is that instead of having to persuade a child patient to put up with various medical devices and sensors (like thermometers or heart rate sensors), the child just hugs a small toy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmhardie.com\/weblogs\/angus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmhardie.com\/weblogs\/angus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmhardie.com\/weblogs\/angus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmhardie.com\/weblogs\/angus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmhardie.com\/weblogs\/angus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1006"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmhardie.com\/weblogs\/angus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1303,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmhardie.com\/weblogs\/angus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006\/revisions\/1303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmhardie.com\/weblogs\/angus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmhardie.com\/weblogs\/angus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmhardie.com\/weblogs\/angus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}