Sudden Infant Death Syndrome
Columnist and host/writer of miniseries “Triumph of the Nerds”, Robert X. Cringley, writes about his son dying, 74 days old, of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS). He writes that very little research is done in this field, but that his plan is to produce 100,000 devices to monitor babies to gather a lot of data about respiration, temperature, etc.
“That’s my plan, but I can’t do it by myself. I need your help. I need hardware engineers, software engineers, I need people experienced with biomedical sensors and sifting mountains of data. I need folks who make tiny processors and RAM chips. I need people who know more about this stuff than I do. Yet they must also be people who are willing to believe that there is an answer, since the medical establishment seems to have given up.”