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SoaPen Wins UNICEF’s Wearables for Good Challenge

Team behind soap-crayon design wins $15K in funding.

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By: Christine Esposito

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A wearable soap that helps limit the spread of infectious viruses by encouraging hand washing is sharing top honors as a winner of the Wearables for Good challenge run by UNICEF as well as tech/design firms ARM and frog.   Launched in May 2015 the Wearables for Good competition is focused on moving the perception of wearables from nice-to-have devices to life-saving products that could work in any environment. The competition atttracted 2,000 registrants from 65 countries that resulted in 250 de...

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