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A warm embrace that saves lives - Jane Chen

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In the developing world, access to incubators is limited by cost and distance, and millions of premature babies die each year. TED Fellow Jane Chen shows an invention that could keep millions of these infants warm -- a design that's safe, portable, low-cost and life-saving.

Chen counsels other designers and inventors to “understand the root of the problem, instead of being biased by what already exists.” Can you think of other, recent innovations that represent a remarkable, radical departure from what already existed?

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