“Babies” filmmakers (and parents!) Susan Wise and Frazer Bradshaw teamed up with Embrace, a project founded by a students in the Entrepreneurial Design for Extreme Affordability class at Stanford who traveled to Nepal with instructions to build a less expensive incubator. “When they got there they discovered that in fact the hospitals have incubators, but the reality is that babies born prematurely are born in villages and simply never make it to the hospital in Kathmandu,” says Wise. Instead of building a cheaper version of a traditional incubator, they created low-cost infant warmer that looks like a sleeping bag and contains a phase change material that can be made warm with boiling water.

Embrace was the beneficiary of the film’s San Francisco premiere, raising over $8000 for the program, and encouraging continuing online donations.

Trailer for | Babies over at MakingOf.com

No word yet on who she’ll be playing, but we can rule out the part of Marylou, who’ll be played by “The Twilight Saga” star Kristen Stewart.

So… yay or nay on this casting? How about the idea of Kerouac’s classic being adapted?

The project, currently titled “Surrender Dorothy,” was originally announced in 2002 with Barrymore set to star.

Meanwhile, another “Oz” sequel is in the works with Sam Mendes helming.

Yay or nay to an Oz sequel?