✚
Clinical Pilot
DNK Istanbul Hospital is trialing 3 SmartCast prototypes with patients — Farah interns there next summer.
@dnk__istanbul__hospital ↗
First Aid Society
Follow us
First Aid Society
Follow us
A gamified pediatric recovery lab — a smart cast designed to help children heal with courage.
DNK Istanbul Hospital has agreed to trial three SmartCast prototypes with their patients, and Farah will intern at the hospital next summer to continue the work on-site. The project has also been covered in the press and featured on Instagram.
DNK Istanbul Hospital is trialing 3 SmartCast prototypes with patients — Farah interns there next summer.
@dnk__istanbul__hospital ↗Featured on muallim.edu.az: students introducing a smart cast that turns treatment into play.
Read the article ↗SmartCast Heroes featured in a dedicated Instagram post — see the reactions and reach.
View the post ↗SmartCast Heroes began with a personal experience. Farah spent months in a cast and learned firsthand how isolating, boring, and quietly frightening recovery can feel — especially for a child. The idea was simple: what if the cast itself could become part of the healing, not just a thing you wait out?
SmartCast Heroes is a research project building a smart pediatric cast that turns recovery into something children can interact with — gentle gamification, courage-building, and quiet medical sensing all in one device. The goal isn't to replace medicine. It's to make the time inside a cast feel less like waiting and more like growing.
Safe, comfortable, clinician-approved — the cast first, the smart layer second.
Lightweight embedded electronics, designed for a child's body and a child's daily life.
Built around how children actually feel about being hurt — courage, play, agency.
A first look at SmartCast Heroes — the prototype, the interface, and the idea coming together.
SmartCast Heroes is not a launched product yet — the team is in the prototyping and research phase. Follow along on Instagram for development updates, behind-the-scenes work, and the first pilots.
Updates from the lab as SmartCast Heroes goes from idea to prototype.
@smartcast_heroes2026 →