She Was Told She Wasn't Wired for Computers. At 66, She Built an App to Protect Her Family.
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Featuring Geniene Preston, founder of Scan Me Save Me
In 1985, an aptitude test told a young Geniene Preston that computers weren't for her — landscape gardening was the suggestion instead. Fifty years later, two days after her own app launched on Google Play and the App Store, she joined Lindi Tshabangu on JustGospel Radio's JustBusiness show to talk about the winding road that got her there — secretary, programmer, publisher, radio — and the two family moments that finally led her to build Scan Me Save Me.
Her sister lives in a care home for people with Alzheimer's and dementia, where residents have wandered off and turned up hours or days later, unable to say who they were. Closer to home, her husband — who had a stroke and takes a blood thinner, and still rides a motorbike — could be treated wrongly by a first responder who has no way of knowing what he needs them to know.
Scan Me Save Me solves it with an NFC chip worn as a bracelet, watch, or even a car's licence disc — tapped by any NFC-capable phone, no app, signal, or internet required on the other end, with nothing stored anywhere except on the chip itself.
Quote: "95% of this country just wants to raise our kids, be kind to one another."
Find them: scanmesaveme.com, or WhatsApp/call 082 610 7380
In 1985, an aptitude test told a young Geniene Preston that computers weren't for her — landscape gardening was the suggestion instead. Fifty years later, two days after her own app launched on Google Play and the App Store, she joined Lindi Tshabangu on JustGospel Radio's JustBusiness show to talk about the winding road that got her there — secretary, programmer, publisher, radio — and the two family moments that finally led her to build Scan Me Save Me.
Her sister lives in a care home for people with Alzheimer's and dementia, where residents have wandered off and turned up hours or days later, unable to say who they were. Closer to home, her husband — who had a stroke and takes a blood thinner, and still rides a motorbike — could be treated wrongly by a first responder who has no way of knowing what he needs them to know.
Scan Me Save Me solves it with an NFC chip worn as a bracelet, watch, or even a car's licence disc — tapped by any NFC-capable phone, no app, signal, or internet required on the other end, with nothing stored anywhere except on the chip itself.
Quote: "95% of this country just wants to raise our kids, be kind to one another."
Find them: scanmesaveme.com, or WhatsApp/call 082 610 7380
