LIttle Devices Group

The Little Devices group at MIT develops empowerment technologies for health. We believe that innovation and design happens at the frontline of healthcare where providers and patients can invent everyday technologies to improve outcomes. By comparing the adaptive technology index of a given burden of disease, we can select promising devices that can have an impact on a particular disease. The resulting research portfolio is then matched with specific strategies for participatory design.

The Little Devices Group, housed at MIT, is affilated with Innovations in International Health. The group works with the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology (HST), the Media Lab, Boston University and the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH). International partners and field sites include the Nicaraguan School of Public Health and the Global Health Committee.

Projects involve vaccine delivery, medial instrumentation, adherence diagnostics, prototyping toolkits and innovaiton policy. When these technologies are ready. the group will spin them off into LDTC+Labs for commercialization. The portfolio maps onto 4 different global disease burden domains using a growing toolkit of technologies and approaches: Diagnostics, Therapeutics, Vaccines and Behavioral.