Footfalls & Heartbeats Ltd.
Smart knitted textiles for quantified self and patient monitoring
This article was originally published in Start Up
Executive Summary
As health care becomes more personalized, diagnosis and monitoring needs to follow suit: New Zealand-based Footfalls & Heartbeats Ltd. is using smart knitted textiles with electrically conductive yarn to make clothes where the knitting itself forms a sensor. The start-up’s first product, scheduled to launch in January 2014, is a compression “smart sock” for use in the treatment of chronic venous leg ulcers.
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