WearGood inventors tackling social ills, turning inspirations into companies

Story excerpt provided by Columbus Business First.

Written by Carrie Ghose.

Put a bunch of entrepreneurs and tinkerers in a room with a pile of sundry gadgetry, talk to them about social problems like homelessness and chronic disease, and give them three days.

Columbus, Ohio nonprofit CivicHacks asked inventors to find more meaningful solutions than counting footsteps in the wearable technology trend in its WearGood competition, held Aug. 22-24 at TechColumbus.

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Originally published September 3, 2014.