DiabetesMine Announces Diabetes Design Contest to Foster Innovation for Life with Diabetes; Good Design can Transform Life for Diabetics

San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) May 14, 2008

DiabetesMine, a leading informational and community web site for people with diabetes, announces the 2nd Annual DiabetesMine Design Challenge, a competition designed to foster innovation in diabetes design and encourage creative new tools that will improve life with diabetes.

This web-based competition is co-hosted at DiabetesMine.com and MedGadget.com, the Internet journal of emerging medical technologies, and supported by the world-renowned design and innovation firm IDEO, with headquarters in Palo Alto, CA. The campaign is generously sponsored by Cory and Justin Oringer, two young brothers (ages 14 and 11, respectively) who have both been living with Type 1 diabetes for more than 10 years each and have already seen and personally experienced many wonderful benefits of design innovation in diabetes technology.

Submissions are being accepted in two categories: under age 18, and over 18. The package of prizes offered to help further the winners' creative efforts includes $ 3,200 in cash, a two-hour workshop by IDEO design consultants specializing in health and wellness to help the winners refine their concepts, and free access to the next "innovation incubator" Health 2.0 Conference in San Francisco in October 21-23, 2008, for one adult winner.

"People with diabetes are so varied. There's the 8-year-old kid going to school every day, versus the older gentleman who may be retired and barely gets out of his house. Consumer design takes that variability into account, but traditionally medical design does not. What people with diabetes really need and want are choices," says Cynthia Rice, head of new technology at the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF). "We applaud what DiabetesMine is doing, because it sheds light on this need."

Last year, creator of DiabetesMine Amy Tenderich posted an Open Letter to Steve Jobs, calling for the gurus of consumer design to help revolutionize design of diabetes devices. In the weeks and months that followed, numerous individuals and organizations came forward with compelling new prototypes, designs, and ideas. These included new concepts for glucose meters, insulin pumps, lancing devices (for testing blood glucose), devices for transporting medical records or tracking glucose results, diabetes supply carry cases and more.

This year, the official competition is open to anyone passionate about diabetes and product design. "Whether you're a pharma R&D pro, an independent engineer, a design student or an enterprising patient, we want to hear from you," Tenderich says. "Remember, good design can be applied to anything, even something as 'low-tech' as a special container for disposing of used glucose test strips. Let the innovation begin!"

Submissions are accepted in the form of a 2-minute video to be uploaded to the DiabetesMine YouTube channel, or a 2-3 page written "elevator pitch" plus supporting graphics. The deadline for submissions has been extended to midnight PST on Monday, June 16, 2008. Winners will be announced on Friday, June 20, 2008.

The official contest announcement and rules can be found at http://www.diabetesmine.com/2008/04/2nd-annual-diab.html.

For more information, please contact:

B. Tenderich at DiabetesMine.com

650-652-9430

info @ diabetesmine.com

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Eli Clarke, a 12-Year-Old New Jersey Musician, Writes/Performs "Good Song" To Raise Funds For Joplin, MO

Montclair, NJ (PRWEB) August 10, 2011

Eli Clarke, a 12-year old bassist and guitarist from Montclair, NJ, has written and performed an instrumental rock music track entitled Good Song in an effort to raise money for victims of the devastating tornado that ravaged Joplin, MO in May 2011.

Good Song is available as a download for 99 cents at GoodSongForJoplin.com, and will soon be available on iTunes and other online music stores. 100% of the revenue thats generated by the online sales of Good Song will be donated to Music For Relief, a non-profit organization dedicated to disaster relief and mitigation that was created by the band Linkin Park. All proceeds will be earmarked specifically to benefit Music For Reliefs efforts in Joplin.

Music for Relief is grateful for Elis support in raising funds for families impacted by the tornadoes in Joplin, MO, says Whitney Showler, Chief Operating Officer for Music For Relief. Its inspiring to see young, talented artists using their music to help others.

Good Song was produced, mixed, and engineered by John Ginty, a Grammy-winning musician who has toured and recorded with Warren Haynes, Sheryl Crow, Santana, Citizen Cope, Jewel, and The Allman Brothers.

I began working with Eli in June 10 when I was Music Director at School of Rock Montclair, and he was one of my first students, says Ginty, who also played drums and keyboards on Good Song. When he came to me with Good Song, I thought that his idea of using a crunched-up ukulele over a big fuzzy bass was cool and very unique. We recorded it in one day, with just a couple of takes. The track totally rocks, and this is the first of many good songs to come from this talented guy.

Clarke, who is an 8th grader at Mt. Hebron Middle School in Montclair, brought the influences of some of his favorite artists to Good Song, including the sound and feel of The Deftones, The Meters, Return To Forever, Mastodon, and Mars Volta with a touch of Black Sabbath, Pink Floyd, and The Red Hot Chili Peppers.

I wanted to create a song that was powerful and energetic to reflect the strength of the people of Joplin, says Clarke. Theyve been through a horrible experience and theyve lost a lot, but theyll survive and revive and Good Song is a tribute to their tough spirit.

Along with the performances of Eli and John Ginty, Good Song also features guitar work by Mark Dollar, who is Clarkes guitar and bass teacher at School of Rock Montclair. Dollar has recorded and performed with Eminem, Mary J. Blige, Christina Aguilera, Akon, and Justin Bieber.

Eli is grateful for the generous contributions of the following corporate sponsors that are helping to create awareness of Good Song and revenue for Joplin, MO via Music For Relief:

DOMAIN.com Domain registration (GoodSongForJoplin.com, GoodSongForJoplin.org) and URL forwarding

REVERBNATION.com Digital distribution subscription to sell Good Song online

PRWEB.com Premium distribution subscription, to build awareness of Good Song among print, television, web, and radio media outlets

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