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On A Mission To Build The Next Big Pet Brand, Whistle Launches A $99 Fitbit (And Health Monitor) For Pooches

“The average dog is a nicer person than the average person.”
— Andy Rooney
Yes, it’s become exceedingly clear that the Internet has entered into a prodigious, lascivious (and hilarious) relationship with cats. But, at the end of the day, when it comes to the title of “Man/Woman/Child’s Best Friend,” it’s the friendly neighborhood pooch that takes the cake. In my own experience, even when The World thinks you’re an idiot, life gets you down and you’ve forgotten to feed them, their tales are still going to wag — just at the sight of you. Sure, they may have questionable taste, but there’s probably no better representation of unconditional love than your local canine.
If what Rooney says is true, then it probably helps explain why some dogs have it better than some actual humans. (Exhibit A.) Lately, humans, at least humans in Silicon Valley, have become enthralled with wearable health tracking devices. So, considering there’s already a Birchbox for Dogs, it was only a matter of time before dogs got their own Fitbit. Enter: Whistle, a new startup launching today that wants to be the go-to activity tracker for dogs (and dog lovers).
Now, diligent readers of TechCrunch may say, “but, Rip, there’s already a Fitbit for dogs!” I’d advise them to go outside once and a while, but they’d also be correct. Last month, Jay Donovan wrote about a startup called FitBark (!) that is embarking (!) down a similar path. If nothing else, entrepreneurs take note: The emergence of a Facebook for dogs, a Birchbox for dogs, an Airbnb for dogs (times two), a “Find my iPhone for dogs,” and an Uber for dog walking proves we have an over-active dog startup market on our hands.
Next: DogCrunch? BarkMeme? (Yes, we’re hiring.)
Now, let’s just get this out of the way, since it’s one of the obstacles that a startup like Whistle is going to face: The idea of a Fitbit or a Nike+ FuelBand for dogs is ridiculous. Crying “Bubble!” or rolling your eyes for 10 minutes over the idea of a dog startup market almost goes without saying. No doubt there are plenty of people who will see this as a perfect example of Silicon Valley going too far. (Here’s Will Ferrell putting a fine point on the matter.)
And, yes, when one looks at Whistle, it’s easy to imagine a bunch of former VCs and private equity types sitting around a table, doing some market analysis and applying every successful tech company formula to the dog market in the hopes of raising a few million bucks. However, no offense to FitBark, but the Whistle founders want to go beyond just being a “Reasonable Device for Pet Owners” to build the next big tech-savvy pet brand around a killer line of devices and products — starting with an activity tracker.
As evidence of just how serious the company is (or, for naysayers, the growing “blubble”), alongside its launch, the company announced today that it has raised $ 6 million in Series A financing led by DCM Ventures, with contributions from a long list of investors, including Red Swan Ventures, Humane Society Silicon Valley President and former VP and GM of Intuit Carol Novello, Pinnacle Foods CEO and former Mars President Bob Gamgort and Rapleaf co-founder Dayo Esho, among others. Guitar Hero co-founder and Throttle Games CEO Charles Huang and former VP of Operations at Nest Labs, Sling Media and Virgin John Gilmore have both joined the company as advisors, along with several other prominent local dogs, and DCM partner and Sling Media co-founder Jason Krikorian joined Whistle’s board of directors as a result of the round.
Again, the real interest in Whistle (and in this space) can be found here and in one of Saturday Night Live’s best re-occurring sketches: Dog Show, which parodies the overzealous and obsessive dog owner. Not only does everyone have a dog, but people love to spoil their dogs. There are more dogs in the U.S. than there are children, Krikorian explains, and Americans spend over $ 50 billion on their pets every year.
Whistle is going after this audience by branding itself as a company that’s dedicated to helping pets live longer and healthier lives — a mission that’s easy to get behind — beginning with its first (flagship) product, a wearable activity tracker that connects to your dog’s collar. Similar to other Quantified Self devices, Whistle’s circular, metallic gadget contains a three-axis accelerometer designed to measure a wide range of motion, and rest, which the startup believes can act as key indicators of canine health.
The gadget also includes both WiFi and Bluetooth capability, allowing it not only to record location-based activity data, but transmit that information to Whistle’s dashboard, which owners can access via the startup’s smartphone apps or via the Web. The device’s location sensing capability is fairly broad, but Whistle co-founder Steve Eidelman (Disclosure at the end of the post) tells us that it can pick up on whether your dog is at home, or, say, riding in the car with you, based on which network it’s accessing (Bluetooth or WiFi). And, by the way, health and activity tracking entrepreneurs, if a pet company can do auto, remote Bluetooth-powered data sync, so can you. Don’t launch without it, you’re insulting your users.
Like the better examples among the Fitbits, Basis(es), FuelBands and Ups of the world, the real key to Whistle’s concept is not its device or apps, but its cloud platform and the data crunching it’s doing behind the scenes. Eidelman tells me that the company has been working with a lot of the biggest pet companies, veterinary clinics and so on to aggregate dog health data and break it down into categories. The more data it collects, the more the startup can build an accurate picture of health patterns and where your dog should ideally fall on that map based on its age, breed, weight and activity.
As it pulls in activity data in realtime, Whistle then weighs those indicators against its dataset (and “doggie demographic information,” as I’m calling it) to see just how well Fido is, or isn’t doing. And, really, dogs could care less about how many miles they log each day chasing cars, it’s really about the owner. If we assume the average dog owner wants to treat their pet well, then Whistle provides them with the benchmarks from which they can glean their success rate. Activity levels looking pretty low? That’s on you, pal, not your dog.
Plus, dogs generally have to be in a lot of pain if they’re going to outwardly show it. Generally, they’re going to suffer silently. (See? You just unconsciously bought into Whistle at the thought of a sad, whimpering dog, didn’t you?) With the ability to track your dog’s general activity and health levels in realtime, there’s a better chance that you will be able to identify problems before they get out of hand — or so the thinking goes.
And, if you’re willing to go with it, the real genius here is that, because Whistle is really playing into the motivations of the dog owner (not Fido himself), if they can convince you to buy their health tracker, they can then up-sell you on a string of other dog-focused products and services. Since Whistle is just launching today, they haven’t gotten there yet, but plans are in the works. Eidelman wouldn’t say what they’re working on next, but it is clear that the startup intends to become a brand (with a line of products), rather than simply holding fast to the “Fitbit for pooches” space.
Unlike, say, Amazon which sells hardware at a loss to get you using its other services, at the outset, Whistle is giving its apps, analytics and cloud service for free to get you to buy its hardware. The gadget will run you $ 99, which although it may seem like a lot, really isn’t for avid pet owners who will spend ten times that in a couple of weeks. Whistle is taking the same approach as RunKeeper (or Runtastic) in that it wants to build a platform and eventually stake a claim to the “pet graph.” Though my eyes just involuntarily rolled, this means that as more of these devices pop up, if Whistle can be the data platform which they all connect to, it would potentially be holding the keys to the kingdom.
But that’s getting a little ahead of the tail. While companies can always generate a little revenue from selling to really passionate, committed audience on their own site, the real key for companies like Whistle is retail. More specifically, retail partnerships. Considering people spend $ 50 billion on pets every year, somewhat surprisingly, a small handful of chain pet stores own most of the marketshare. For Whistle to become a viable company, getting its products into PetSmart or the equivalent is critical. If they can do that, and even perhaps capture an entire aisle, they’ll be rolling in dog treats.
For more, find Whistle at home here.
[Disclaimer: Though all of my posts should be taken with a grain of salt, for sake of full disclosure, I should say that I have known Steve Eidelman for several years and consider him a friend. While I have no personal financial stake in Whistle, I do admit a bias insofar as I hope they achieve fame and glory, alhough, admittedly, this can be said for the majority of startups I cover.
Disclaimer #2: I like. DOGs.]
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Health & Wellness Retailer Vitacost Turns To Tablets To Drive Serendipitous Sales
Vitamin and health food online retailer Vitacost has launched a tablet app that’s designed to encourage shoppers to put more than just the core items on their shopping list into their digital basket. Introducing a little serendipity into the buying process makes a lot of sense when you’re selling 40,000+ different products but what’s interesting is that Vitacost sees tablets as the place to do this.
Vitacost already has a smartphone app but says its tablet “experience”, which is designed for the iPad but built in HTML5 so is not a native app, is “entirely different” to the smartphone app — with a focus on allowing shoppers to discover new items, rather than just making it quick and easy to shop by category.
“The tablet size and form-factor encourages browsing,” says Vitacost CMO David Zucker. ”Information-rich, large catalog retailers work really well in a browsing format on a tablet, which is difficult to achieve on a smartphone.”
“The iPad experience is not an app but an actual website in HTML 5 to exploit the tablet and its functionality. Our phone app is optimized for that size screen while the new iPad experience is designed for the mid-size screen and the iPad functionality,” he adds.
It’s still early days in the retail gold rush to mine riches out of tablets. As slate ownership ramps up — with almost 200 million tablets predicted to ship globally this year (Gartner‘s figure), powered by YoY growth of nearly 70% — the swelling addressable market for selling stuff via slates is putting the dollar signs in retailers’ eyes. Especially as tablet owners are already showing signs that they are in the mood for casual browsing – so may be more likely to make an impulse buy.
Designing tablet-centric ecommerce that encourages a more casual kind of shopping, to help shoppers discover products they didn’t know they were looking for, seems like a natural next step in digital retail strategy. Certainly for ecommerce companies that have a large number of SKUs to sell.
“The tablet is the ideal ‘couch commerce’ browsing environment,” says Zucker. ”Their large screen, high resolution and good sound make rich browsing experiences possible… We see the growth in tablet usage as a ‘third screen’ and interaction with commerce and brands is increasing. Tablet usage has grown 10x faster than smartphone usage comparing the first two years after introduction [and] is expected to grow at 50% compounded annual rate through 2015 – this is where the puck is going.”
So what exactly does Vitacost’s tablet “experience” do to get more shoppers encountering stuff they didn’t already know about? Firstly, the shopping experience is built around gestures to make it easier to browse and choose items, with swipes to quickly flick through scores of items on virtual shelves. Products that the shopper wants to buy are then dragged off the virtual shelf to the bottom of the screen where they are added to the basket.
Another feature, called ‘browsing bubbles’, displays related info next to the products (such as ingredients and dietary info) but also bubbles up similar products to get users to widen the spectrum of their search.
Add to that, a proprietary ‘sprinkler algorithm’ introduces an element of pure serendipity by pushing random categories and items into the mix too, so that shoppers end up encountering a much broader collection of products than if they have been shopping via the traditional ecommerce staple of drop-down category menus.
The effect Vitacost was aiming for was to digitally recreate a bricks and mortar style shopping experience where the act of shopping naturally involves discovery, says Zucker. “Consumers using our new digital platform are offered an endless array of product suggestions through the browsing bubbles, increasing awareness of the vast selection of products and brands that Vitacost carries,” he adds in a statement.
The company gets 1.5 million unique views to its ecommerce website per month but does not yet publicly disclose traffic to mobile devices. Zucker tells TechCrunch that “mobile/tablet revenue is a non-trivial portion of our total revenue” but said, first and foremost, the decision to develop the tablet shopping platform was driven by “the desire to remove friction in the buying process for our 40,000+ SKUs”.
“We chose the iPad to exploit the functionality that this device has, such as dragging, swiping and other functionality that enables more gesture-based shopping. Second, we needed a user experience that better enabled a consumer to discover the products we have; since a typical consumer will enter a brick and mortar grocery shopping experience and emerge with items they did not initially intend to buy,” he says.
“This ‘discover’ process is difficult to build in a website and we believe we have made significant strides with our new experience to develop a sense of discovery using our shopping bubbles and sprinkle algorithm. Finally, we wanted something that people actually liked to use and found fun to interact with. I don’t think anyone would say that web shopping is in itself a fun experience, although theVitacost iPad experience is.”
Here’s a screengrab of the less fun/more utilitarian shopping experience offered on Vitacost’s website:
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Google Glass Early Adopters Hope to Develop Knowing, Health care, Ease of access & Safety Apps
Wondering who has succeeded a Google Glass? Stanford PhD student Andrej Karpathy has actually made use of Twitter ’ s API to assemble a partial list of the so far close to 4,000 winners of Google ’ s Glass Explorers first adopter competition who used to get the high tech specs through Twitter. Google still hasn ’ t confirmed that the last Glass winners have been named yet so there may yet be a few more invites to go out. Update: Karpathy ’ s listing has actually now been updated to 4238 people, so Glass invites are still going out today. Huge G has actually been active this previous week sending out notices to champions of its # ifihadglass investment project (and even rescinding a few that fell short to equal its T&C s). Winners put on ’ t actually succeed a free pair of Glass. Rather they get a VIP pass to spend $ 1,500 to be amongst the first group of people to possess a pair of the Glass Traveler Version of Google ’ s high tech specifications. So it ’ s a high stakes, high presence marketing competitors as Google finds to both evangelise, humanise and normalise a modern technology that ’ s brand-new, various and impossible to overlook — being as it sits right on the face. Successful candidates on the Twitter listing(whose Twitter descriptions are revealed above in Word Cloud kind)include well-known names such as previous Speaker of your home, Amphibian Gingrich, who pledged “ # ifihadglass i would take it on tours of zoos and galleries to share the animals and fossils ”, and — at the polar opposite end of the celebrity spectrum — electronica singer songwriter Imogen Load who wishes to ” hook them up w/my gloves to help me browse music making in 3D ”. As you ’ d expect, the list of winners weighes on entertainers and extroverts guaranteeing to livestream their gig/music/show / art/sports activity/skydive. There are likewise a reasonable couple of marketing kinds — pledging to do things like “ learn & write how it will alter advertising & brands ”. But — more interesting than either of these classifications — are the designers with app ideas for Glass. Previously this month Google demoed a few of its own Glass apps such as Gmail, as well as revealed a few 3rd celebration apps from the likes of the New york city Times, Evernote and Path. But Glass will fly or pass away based
on cool new apps that likely wear ’ t exist on various other platforms yet. I ’ ve collated a listing (see below)of some of the app concepts that Glass champions are pledging to produce — and, past the apparent use-cases of audio and streaming a first person viewpoint, styles for possible Glass apps are already arising. Education and learning, healthcare, ease of access and safety application concepts are numerous amongst this wave of Glass very early adopters(albeit, these designers likely place ’ t had a possibility to effectively cope with Glass yet
). It looks likely that Glass will be the tech sector where augmented truth can seriously remove — thanks to both the natural visual overlay and the hands-free nature of the device. On smartphones and tablets AR stays something of a trick, because the individual has to hold the gadget approximately produce a field-of-vision overlay — limiting how they can interact with it and how long they can utilize it for. Neither are problems for Glass. I would create information retrieval apps that deal with the Glass # ifihadglass – like repair info, and so on. [link] we develop a completely new shopping app leveraging the power of glass+android. [link] I ’ d make a http://t.co/WWcsHNbZcD app so that little “ icons of trust ” hover over individual heads. I ’ d understand who to trust, quickly / [link] I ’ d develop an application for tourists to correspond with their loved ones. Show appeal is in examination of the Glass holder. [link] I ’ d develop a micro-expression detector that would enable suitable feedbacks to the occasionally subtle responses in others. [link] I would establish cutting-edge apps for publications [link] I ’ d produce an app that had real-time details about taxis when you looked at their taxi number making use of AR # ifihadglass [link] Being partially blind, # ifihadglass I ’ d utilize it to augment my absence of peripheral vision, use presence apps to avoid bumping into others, etc. [link] I ’ d help develop brand-new applications for its use in wellness & medication & inspire others to as well http://t.co/JKNXWI4Dyk [link] I ’ d write apps for smartwatches that show tokens for the Glass to get and show expanded information @ projectglass [link] I ’ d make mashups with @ LeapMotionDev for augmented reality apps like these http://t.co/JZlTdeD0rc and evangelize to devs [link] I would develop a driving security app to assist decrease driver diversion, find drowsiness, and display upcoming roadway issues [link] I ’ d develop a ski app to reveal you speed, distance, calories. Take activity pics in collection.
Include sensors to jacket for more security. [link] i ’ d create a skill/barter app where people could possibly indicate skills/goods they have/need for trade. Haves/needs appear overhead. [link] I ’ d create the best nerd app — crosshairs. [link] I develop an app to reveal people how much carbon energy they were making use of. [link] develop apps that can be beneficial for moms and dads and children like medical [link] I ’ d make an app that converts the sheet songs you see into a MIDI file. =D [
link] I ’ d explore applications for education [link] I would build apps for individuals who go shopping. [link] I would develop an input and recall application for simply. me – an app that enables us to capture, share and remember our life. [link] I would construct an app to display essential running and heart rate information
to me while I run and bike / [link] I ’ d develop an app called momento that allowed me to bear in mind where things are by using playback. [link] I would construct applications for dental practitioners, doctors, and makers to empower the industrial AR dream. [link] I would build a dating app (that would inevitably be considered creepy). [link] i ‘d develop an app to assist ppl with their dieting/eating routines by revealing you nourishment info for things you consume. (hook me up)[ link] I will produce a face awareness app to advise me the name of the individuals I satisfy and count the amount of time I invest with them. [link] I would check out and discuss the feasible retail applications … i.e., shop my glass off [link] I would establish a location and image awareness based increased truth app for blind or aesthetically impaired individuals. [link] I would construct a persistent knowledge AI: construct an application to instantly bring search results page apropos of discussion [link] I would develop some kind of app to assist children establish art abilities. [link] I would right away begin on my commute/family journey monitoring support app, and wear glass daily on … http://t.co/T7dneqFsfN [link] To prevent and reduce excessive weight, with an app that records exercise and food intake to offer dietary guide # ifihadglass [link] Look into Tour, a concept directed tour app for Google Glass # ifihadglass. Making the unnoticeable noticeable http://t.co/GZsFZrvVi1 [link] I would write an app to determine lawmakers on the fly. A covert aesthetic shazam. [link] I ’ d write an app to make it simpler to check out nourishment facts on processed food [link] We would utilize our AR to make the very best ever before # travel app with details about monument/landscape and boards translation overlay # ifihadglass [link] I want to make an app that helps deaf people “ see ” exactly what others are chatting about. [link] I would develop a speedometer app to track my top and ordinary speeds while luging, http://t.co/RnDFKyFw5w [link] construct an app that suggests individuals to meet based upon who is nearby. [link] I would write a running app that would reveal the @ strava course names and course records of whatever streets I was running on [link] I would use the heads-up/subject-overlay credit to make better apps for healthcare experts, analysts and students [link] I would work to discover applications for its use in hospitals and other medical care setups. [link] I would develop GhostRunner. An application that enables me to run against my own best time. Visually. http://t.co/wF2loUrOqz [link] I would develop an app that utilizes facial recognition to meet again lost pets with their parents # ifihadglass http://t.co/zVaD80lWwv [link] I would develop an app efficient in taking signboards, and changing them with things you are attempting to bear in mind (or cat images). [link] I would develop an app to have the “ Yellow Line ” at football games in real life.
http://t.co/REmY5GrX [link] I would create a Marine Navigation application for both the laid-back cruiser and racing seafarer # WindSpeed # BuoyLocations [link] Client service application
that uses live video from callers to walk them through options # ifihadglass [link] I ’ d build an app to recognize fashion on the road and find a place to purchase it. # iloveyourdress #
wheredidyougetit [link] I ’ d write an app that tapes a minute buffer of video that will conserve to Google Drive on command.
Document outstanding things. [link] I would make a doorbell app, so I might see who ’ s knocking and quickly let them in. http://t.co/fL4gJ3w1DF [link] # ifihadglass remind individuals of their consultations, would utilize Google maps to figure out when to send out pointer, ie farther away, earlier ping [link] Innovate: App 2 reduce weapon violence! http://t.co/zCzxF5ESfv
[ link] Hands-free training! Not tethered to a laptop computer or Elmo, unlimited innovative & useful classrm applications! [link] Hate it when your Dr. constantly looks down throughout your appointment
? I ’ m going to alter that with Glass. http://t.co/LnW8po2FfV # ifihadglass [link] I would create an app to let general aviation aviators prep and fly their airplanes through lists they can see in the glass.
[ link] I ’ d built-in voice-control for all of our attributes in our products so that customers could use our apps while on the treadmill
. [link] I will test my AR android app for climbing, suggesting enhancements, and sharing this experience with the climbing up community [link] I would create an app that would make people, specifically young females like myself, feel safe in their existing surroundings. [link] I will develop a driver-training app to detect incorrect driving habits and provide training feedback.
[ link] I would establish an application to allow the communication with deaf individuals by revealing a live transcription in Google Glass 1/2 [link] establish an application for musicians,
by taking part in a data source that would help tablature to play the instrument [link] I would establish an app that can recommend desired dishes by just exploring my refrigerator and scanning its food products [link] i ’ d establish
an app to help waiters try to keep track of tables, orders and client inclinations [link] i would create an app measuring tension levels by the size of your pupils. Information could possibly show tension visualised throughout the world [
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to the road while driving. [link] 4 Architecture app Glasses can be conected with SketchUp so the customers could possibly se the building proposals directlly on website. [link]
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Make an app or hardware mod that understands mood to change UX(based on pupil expansion)# ifihadglass [link] I would build a real-time medical history taking app that would tape & upload doctor/patient communications into an EMR! [link] I ’ d make apps
to control all my Internet of Things with # Android @ House. [link] I would develop an application that makes home improvement tasks simpler by changing measuring tapes and basic box levels [link] I would establish place mindful applications, like car equate of spotted text, information on items seen etc.
[ link] Program brilliant subtitles to truth. Hyperlink objects. Design apps for self-directed learning # edtech http://t.co/QGE49Q82uC [link] I would make an app to alert the deaf when a loud noise recognizes a
danger outside of their field of vision [link] Use it to develop an app the incentives individuals when they toss their trash away, would take pictures to verify it [link] I would make an application that makes it possible for individuals to crowdsource live coverage of public occasions. # youtube2 [link] Consider applications for use with kids and learning handicaps. [link] I would make them Wi-Fi instinctive with app support so that you can
use them to readjust setups on your DSLR or GoPro. [link] I ’ d develop tools to make measuring the self throughout multiple domains easier, even more transparent, and more efficient than ever before. [link] I ’ d build details sharing devices for enriching IRL chats.
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Health Tracking Gets More Up-Close And Personal With Tiny Blood Monitor Implant

I thought it was outstanding that Withings now provides an inexpensive house scale that tracks your body fat percentage and heart rate, however experts have actually developed a tiny Bluetooth-capable blood monitoring gadget that resides pleasantly under the skin, baseding upon the BBC this morning. It ’ s most likely to go into screening with intensive care clients soon, however it ’ s an instance of how intense house health tracking could overcome the course of the next couple of years.
The device was produced by a group of Swiss medical experts, and is created to be installed (that really is the most proper term right here) in a patient ’ s abdomen, leg or arm skin, utilizing just a needle. It can last for months, and reports back details about blood sugar and cholesterol levels, so as you may imagine it would be very beneficial for clients with persistent conditions like diabetes who are utilized to having to draw blood on a far more regular basis.
It ’ s not a brand-new concept, but the Swiss team ’ s design is special because it can track a lot of various markers at once. In shorts, it ’ s the eventually measured self gadget for genuine internal hints. The instant advantage of this technician is undoubtedly for those with severe conditions, which ’ s likely who will see the advantages in the immediate future. The team hopes to have it typically offered to clients in demand within the next 4 years.
However beyond that, it ’ s easy to see comparable unobtrusive sub-dermal implants gaining traction with the expanding variety of people who appear to desire to try to keep close tabs on their bodies and wellness. Cholesterol degrees and various other signs that can be found by this type of close monitoring will additionally probably become much more intriguing to existing advocates of the Quantified Self motion as the populace ages.
It may seem bizarre to think of a future where the basic need to know and track more information about ourselves in real-time extends to gadgets we use underneath the skin, however ten years ago who could ’ ve forecasted the rise of effective fledglings like Withings who have developed a brand on house health tracking, or the introduction of a gadget like the Basis wristband? Instruments like this one might just be the following wave of wellness monitoring technician mature for consumerization.
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Researchers print biometric sensors directly on skin, make wearable health monitors more durable
MC10 may be best known for its wearable electronic devices aimed at athletes, however the business also makes a medical diagnostic sticker called a biostamp. Its developer (and MC10 co-founder), John Rogers has actually fine-tuned that design so that it’s not an elastomer sticker label– now he could use the biostamp’s thin, stretchy electronics straight on human skin, and bond it with commercially available spray-on bandage material. By losing the elastomer backing of the original biostamp and applying the circuits directly to the skin, Rogers and his group at the University of Illinois were able to shave the gadget’s density to 1/30th of the (currently quite thin) biostamp. That incredibly thin profile indicates it conforms even much better to the curves of human hide and makes it shower- and swim-proof during the 2 weeks it lasts before being naturally exfoliated with your skin.
For those unpracticed what the biostamp does, it’s a mesh of circuits and sensors that could tape-record electrophysiological information like skin temperature and hydration state of the individual. The new biostamp won’t be in your doctor’s device box any time quickly, nevertheless, as Rogers and his group are still refining the cordless power and interaction technologies it leverages. Naturally, when those problems are resolved, there’s a good chance we’ll see MC10 turning it into an industrial item.
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Jawbone buys Massive Health and Visere to boost app design for wearables
Jawbone has actually been materializing development on the software for its tentative steps into wearable technology like the Up bracelet, however it’s safe to say there’s some space to grow. The company might simply feel the exact same means in the wake of 2 crucial acquisitions focused on app interfaces and design. It simply purchased Large Wellness, best understood for its crowdsourced meals app The Eatery, and Visere, a design residence recognized for its work on both hardware and software. While Jawbone hasn’t yet described its plans past scooping up the “best skill” for app development, Huge Wellness expects to preserve its namesake focus– it does not see much work on Bluetooth sound in its future. However things shake out, it’s clear software will play a bigger role for our ears, wrists and beyond.
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1). Core Pushup The Core Pushup is an excellent instability strength training device that increases the intensity of pushups and planks and maximize upper body and core strength. The steel platform and balance ball combination create an unstable surface for a variety of strength training exercises including 7 configurations printed directly on the platform. The durable balance ball inflates/deflates for variable difficulty. 9.992). AquajoggerThe Aquajogger is a fantastic in-water exercise system that comfortably suspends you at shoulder level in deep water allowing you to breathe normally and move freely while performing a wide variety of water exercise. The Aquajogger components allow the person working out to determine the level of resistance they want for their leg and arm motions, ranging everywhere from very low, approximating a walk, to very strenuous, similar to a full-body fitness machine workout only without the joint discomfort and machinery. Makes low-impact, in-water exercise much more enjoyable, effective and beneficial. 4.95 and up.3). ePulse2The ePulse2 is the world’s first strapless, armband continuous heart rate monitor, pedometer and calorimeter. Until now, dynamic heart rate monitors required an uncomfortable chest strap and special watch practically restricting their use to serious athletes. ePulse2 is the first device to make this technology practical and convenient for anyone who exercises or is interested in tracking calories burned or monitoring …
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Alt-week 9.8.12: Moon farming, self powered health monitors and bringing a 50,000 year-old girl to life
Alt-week peels back the covers on a few of the even more curious sci-tech stories from the last seven days.
Some weeks things get a little science heavy, in some cases it’s a little on their weird side, and there’s usually a bit of space travel included, however these week’s trend seems to be “mind-blowing.” Want to expand carrots on the Moon? We got you covered. Just how about delivering a 50,000 year-old early human back to life? Sure, no biggie. Oh but just what about a solar eruption that reaches some half a million miles in height. We have actually got the video clip. No, actually we have. Mind blown? This is alt-week.
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iRobot, InTouch Health unveil RP-VITA telepresence robot, let doctors phone in bedside manner
In instance you missed out on the memo, there’s rather a bit more to iRobot than adorable autonomous vacuum cleaners– these days the firm works on military projects, individual electronics products and tablet-controlled telepresence robotics. Earlier this year, iRobot even retooled itself to build an emerging innovations group, announcing a collaboration with InTouch Wellness to place its AVA telepresence innovation to much better usage. Today the 2 companies are revealing the fruits of their labor– the Remote Presence Virtual + Independent Telemedicine Assistant, or RP-VITA. The project aims to integrate the best of iRobot’s AVA telepresence units with InTouch wellness’s very own bots, producing an uncomplicated to utilize system that enables doctors to look after patients by remote without stumbling over challenging modern technology.
The RP-VITA features advanced mapping and barrier detection and avoidance technology, a straightforward iPad user interface for control and interaction and the ability to interface with analysis tools and accessibility digital medical records. The remote gear will become able to navigate to specified target locations autonomously, though this attribute is still being reviewed by the FDA for clearance. iRobot and InTouch are optimistic about the unit, but claim that the RP-VITA is only the beginning. “While this represents our very first foray into the healthcare market, the RP-VITA represents a sturdy platform,” stated Colin Angle, Chairman and CEO of iRobot, “we see numerous future opportunities in adjacent markets.” The new telemedicine assistant is slated to make its first look at InTouch Wellness’s 7th Yearly Facility Innovations Online forum later on this week. Look into the press release after the break for the full information.
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