What: Health, Wellness and Smart textiles company
Innovation: Improve daily musculoskeletal care.
Who: Jerome Rao, John Lansing, Judy Lansing, and Brooke Rao, working together with URI groups in 3 colleges: College of Health Sciences (Physical Therapy), College of Business Administration (Textiles, Fashion Merchandising and Design), and College of Engineering (Wearable Biosensing Lab).
Market: Wellness
Idea: The company has developed CoreForm, a wearable exercise product to prevent and stabilize musculoskeletal injury.
Notes: Awarded Innovation Voucher to partner with URI to determine their device’s efficacy, test its design and function, and fine-tune the prototype. Plan to introduce product to market in 2018.