wearable have been such a failure.
it's time for a markeatable moment. Plague and quarantine ; challenge, to prevent asymptomatic people from spreading the disease sans repressive and costly medical quarantine.
Fear of Ebola is growing by the day. Quarantine is becoming a 'thing' but quarantine itself is bad for commerce and the consumer and it is inhibitive. it can score politicians points but only to a certain extent.
THE solution; the ebola monitoring bracelet.
People can now be provided a (mandatory?) monitoring bracelet of temperature , sweat, oxygen in the blood, and pulse----and gps. a networked cloud vitals monitoring system detects early symptoms and automatically notifies wearers to come in for voluntary or mandatory checkup with Ebola clinic. Bracelet , options include, audio-visual compliance 'alarm' for 3rd parties, haptic vibrator alarm, remote (un)lock, and biometric-time-stamp confirmation wearer ID.
Healthlet sold to government employees, WHO, west african residents at large.
No more quarantine for the asymptomatic.-- teslaberry, Oct 27 2014 150 mill of hazmat suits on gov dime. http://wgno.com/201...-50-on-ebola-fears/ [teslaberry, Oct 27 2014] And we know which category it's in.-- normzone, Oct 27 2014 150 million dollars? How many of these suits did they buy?-- zeno, Oct 27 2014 hazmat suits are profiteable! when you have government tax dollars to buy them with.-- teslaberry, Oct 27 2014 I found they got 160,000 suits for 192,000,000
1200 a piece-- zeno, Oct 27 2014 how long do they last ?-- FlyingToaster, Oct 27 2014 I just noticed - multiple capital letters, and in appropriate places.
Sort out the category choice and I'd bun this.-- MaxwellBuchanan, Oct 27 2014 Deliberately infect everyone with ebola. See who survives without treatment.
Et viola; instant population control, and no need to spent money developing a vaccine or a treatment.
What could possibly go wrong ?-- 8th of 7, Oct 27 2014 You do know that cats are resistant?-- MaxwellBuchanan, Oct 27 2014 Bugger.
Oh well, back to the CAD system -- 8th of 7, Oct 27 2014 random, halfbakery