Otter: portable newborn warmer designed for hospitals with unreliable power
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Design that Matters and MTTS won the 2026 Seoul Design Award Grand Prize for Otter, a portable newborn warmer with an integrated heat-conducting bassinet and built-in battery, developed over eight years of field research across Africa and Southeast Asia to prevent neonatal hypothermia in low-resource hospitals without reliable electricity.
Otter is a completed design award winner; real-world deployment and impact data are not yet available.
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