What: Health and wellness textile company
Innovation: Use smart textiles to improve health outcomes for aging populations.
Who: URI professors Pat Burbank (Nursing), Kunal Mankodiya (Biomedical Engineering), and Brett Lucht (Chemistry), and Arijit Bose (Chemical Engineering).
Market: Health and aging
Idea: Measure gait and physical activity to improve wellness in aging populations using wearable devices embedded with sensors in socks and other textiles.