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La Presse: The future of information technology is wearable
This article is in French only.
In Montreal, Hexoskin has developed a prototype of a shirt that reads your heart rate, breathing rate and movements. Its first customers are the astronauts of the Canadian Space Agency...
Called Hexoskin, this shirt could revolutionize both medical monitoring and the performance tracking of athletes and sports practitioners at every level, says Hexoskin CEO Pierre-Alexandre Fournier.
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Les Affaires: Recording your vital signs with just a t-shirt
Pierre-Alexandre Fournier is developing telemedecine and telecardiology products that enable patients' health to be monitored and recorded remotely."We have a long list of people who are interested in the product, including government departments such as the Defence department and the Canadian Space Agency."
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PBS: Smartphone sensors could revolutionize digital magazines
Hexoskin is a Montreal-based company developing health sensors that can be integrated into clothing. The sensors will interact with mobile devices to collect and analyze health information, and could have intriguing media-related uses.
"People in general are taking more responsibility for managing their own health," said Pierre-Alexandre Fournier, CEO of Hexoskin. "It's going to help preventive health [care] ... A lot of this monitoring can be done remotely now because of the Internet."
View full article →Mobi Health News: 2011-03 mobile health roundup
Montreal-based Hexoskin is developing wearable, wireless health sensors, but while those are not yet ready to go to market the company has created a handful of basic smartphone health apps. View full article →
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