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led response to real-world health issues funded and manufactured through the ‘wisdom of the crowd’. In our view, the HealthBand fiction helps to further establish spimes as not merely an extrapolation of current technologies but more so as a lens for envisioning how nascent democratised design-innovation practices might grow and potentially reshape industrial product design cultures over the coming years.
Figure 6. The campaign document explains the origins of and motivations behind the HealthBand device and discusses the success of a crowd-funding campaign which funded the production of the first three bands.
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