Tag: Injury prevention
MIT Unveils a Toolkit That Allows Anyone To Design Their Own Muscle-Sensing Wearables
MIT’s Science and and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) has created a toolkit that lets users design health-sensing devices that can detect how muscles move....
Kinetic Raises $11.25M In Series A Funding to Help it Grow And Increase Sales
Kinetic, a New York-based wearables startup that provides safety wearables for industrial workers, raised $11.25 million in series A funding. The funding round was...
Fraunhofer’s Soft Robotic Wearable System Protects Workers from Back Injury
A common complaint among workers in factories, construction
sites and several other fields is back pain. While back injuries affect more
than 1 million workers, it...
Don’t Let Injuries Take You Downhill, Be Safe and Have Fun with These Skiing...
Winter is here, and for the ski lovers it’s time to hit the slopes. However, as the popularity of these winter sports continue to...
Hip’Safe Wearable Airbag for the Elderly will Begin Shipping Worldwide in 2019
Hip’Safe, the wearable airbag designed to protect the elderly from a fall, will be available in 2019. Helite, its maker announced that it’ll start...
Kinetic raises $4.5M for its Wearable REFLEX Aimed at Reducing Workplace Injuries
Kinetic, a NY-based company focused on developing wearables to reduce workplace injury, raised $4.5 seed fund for its wearable device called REFLEX. REFLEX is...