Next time you slip into your campsite sleeping bag, consider the potential one tiny little sleeper holds in saving a human life!

In Jan 2009, I had a chance to speak to embraceglobal.org co-founder Razmig Hovaghimian who, along with his team from Stanford University, were in the early patent stages of producing a remarkably simple yet elegant solution to infant mortality — a portable incubator.  I had contacted Hovaghimian as I was organizing a panel on visionary social entrepreneurship for a U.S. symposium entitled “Creativity: Worlds in the Making,” and wanted Hovaghimian to share his plan for Embrace.

It’s nearly a year since that phone call and Hovaghimian and team have gone on to develop an extraordinary platform for reversing infant death in developing countries (they just presented at TEDIndia).  As you surf through their website, you’ll see the low cost($25 US) baby incubator is not only portable, but designed as well to be ‘reusable, functional without moving or electronic parts and easy to sterilize!’

When one considers the economic, technological and medical challenges of preventing infant death world-wide, the Embrace Infant Warmer, and the team’s paradigm for social-networking between mothers throughout the globe, clearly model a radiant vision of conscious design.

Always on the look-out for break away innovation with the end user and culture transformation in mind, we at BODIES IN SPACE offer our warm applause (no pun intended) to embraceglobal.org for brilliant application of design and social entrepreneurship to a truly life sustainable cause!  What better way to insure the foundations of a vibrant developing economy than to nurture the human life force and movement potential within every newborn child.

So to all you inventors and entrepreneurs with summer camp sleeping bags stuffed at the bottom of a closet, consider the re-make potential world-wide!