Created by a dad owns and baby product store, Wishbone is a smart thermometer designed to make the tedious process of taking the temperature of an easy baby. With about a week left to go in its Kickstarter campaign Wishbone collected over $ 140,000, blowing past its $ 20,000 goal.
Now developers of the project, based in China Shenzhen, Joywing Tech, target a broader objective that includes a mode designed to take the temperature of pets and integration with IOS HealthKit.
Wishbone can also be used to take the ambient temperature or on objects or as a bottle of formula. The device starts at $ 33 and is expected to ship in April.
Joywing Tech founders Harry Hu and developed Gong Robin Wishbone because traditional thermometers are difficult to use on a sick child and moody. Parents often take their children down or awaken from a nap at regular intervals to ensure that their fevers are not worse.
Wishbone is Y-shaped, with a 45-degree angle, and designed to plug into the headphone jack of a smartphone Android or iOS, with an infrared sensor in one end and a battery in the other. To use Wishbone, parents make the sensor three to five centimeters from the head of their child and wait about two seconds to detect a temperature, which is recorded in companion app Wishbone.
Hu says the accuracy of Wishbone is comparable to a traditional contact thermometer in a range of +/- 0.2 degrees Celsius.
There are already a lot of smart thermometers out there (including Kinsa, which recently raised a $ 9.6 million Series A). There are also many relatively inexpensive infrared thermometers saving parents and their babies discomfort in the armpit or rectal temperature readings.
Wishbone hopes its small size, faster temperature readings, and additional features will stand out.
Hu is confident boom will reach its shipment goal, because it already has samples of work and most of the work left to do is the application development side.
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