????德?布勞威爾同時認為，這款產品的成功取決于人們在社交網絡上開放程度的提高。有人分享自己的飲食習慣時，該產品能對其進行分析。他說：“人們分享的信息越多，它的診斷范圍就越廣泛。公開隱私是未來的發展趨勢——我們認為這是件好事。”

????這款產品的創造者們從來沒打算將人為因素排除在診斷過程之外。實際上，該產品的第一版欣然接受人為因素，而且非常人性化：深更半夜，孩子突然生病了，你該怎么辦？對于父母而言，這也許是世界上最無助的事情。富有傳奇色彩的設計公司艾迪歐（IDEO）的設計師戴維?韋伯斯特目前正在與Scanadu合作設計這款產品。他說：“它能告訴你，這種情況究竟是性命攸關，還是虛驚一場。”韋伯斯特

????對于德?布勞威爾而言，這種情況絕非危言聳聽。他是在特護病房外的等候室孕育出這個點子的。當時，他五歲大的兒子跳出窗外，頭部重傷。德?布勞威爾束手無策，只能憑空猜測兒子的情況。那一次，他在特護病房里呆坐了整整三個月。之后，他覺得應該做點什么，讓家長們不必再茫然地傻等。德?布勞威爾稱：“我們必須要讓他們有所作為。”

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????De Brouwer also said the success of the device is contingent on people becoming more open through social networks. So when someone shares his eating patterns, the machine can analyze his diet. "The more people share, the more the device can rule out," he says. "No privacy will be sustainable -- and that's a good thing."

????The product's creators never wanted to divorce the human element from the diagnostic process, just its infallibility. In fact, the first version of the product embraces it, taking an earnestly human approach: What do you do when it is the middle of the night, and your child is ill? For a parent, it's one of the most helpless feelings in the world. "This will let you know if it's a mountain or a molehill," says David Webster, a designer at the legendary design firm IDEO, who is working with Scanadu to hatch the product.

????For de Brouwer, the situation is far from hypothetical. He conceived the idea while in an intensive care unit waiting room. His 5-year-old son had jumped out of a window and suffered severe head trauma. De Brouwer could only guess as to what his son's condition might be. After spending three months in the ICU, he felt he needed to do something for parents waiting cluelessly. "We need to empower them," he says.