The Institute for the Future has announced the winners of its BodyShock contest, a call for ideas to improve global health over the next 3-10 years by transforming our bodies and lifestyles.

The winners are Anjna Patient Education, for targeting free clinics and reaching out to socioeconomically disadvantaged patients; PLAY IT! SAY IT!, which proposes to use the existing communication functions of video game consoles (voice chat and messaging) to provide phone and online counselling to the people who use them; Thrive Portion Ware, whose cups and plates help steer people to eat 20% less per meal; two Stanford students, together with faculty from the Stanford School of Medicine, for zedAlert,  an iPhone application that records user sleep data and uses mathematical models to determine the optimal times for each individual to sleep to maximize restfulness; and The Recovery Project, which would organize patients’ personal narratives of recovery so that they can be best learned from by others.