“We tried to design a medical device that was also beautiful. It is a very very simple device with a ring of LEDs that tell you the time,” says Matteo Lai, showing off his company’s medical grade wearable, Embrace.
Embrace is the result of more than eight years of work by Empatica, a spin-off startup that emerged from MIT Media Lab. It comes with a range of sensors that are built into pretty much all smartphones and wearables out there — an accelerometer, a gyroscope — but it also comes with a electrodermal activity sensor, which is a real-time stress indicator that can predict the onset of epileptic seizures. It is people that experience these seizures that the Embrace has primarily been built for.
By: Katie Collins,
