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Forbes: Hexoskin - a second skin for the quantified athlete and maybe even you!
"The advances of digital health have resulted in advances in medicine and the personal quest for health and wellness. [...] Since 2006, a group in Montreal has been developing and refining a wearable body metrics system they call Hexoskin, testing it on themselves as they run, cycle, ski or work out daily. [...] It is Hexoskin's ability to measure actual physiological responses in context, in a completely unobtrusive and non-invasive manner, that is grabbing the attention of scientists at several prestigious American and Canadian universities for their research in occupational and environmental medicine." View full article →Crunchwear: Hexoskin is a Bluetooth shirt that keeps track of your vitals
"There are lots of vitality trackers on the market, and more forthcoming, but the Hexoskin has the advantage of being a simple shirt and not something clunky like an armband. [...] This makes it a perfect piece of wearable technology not only for athletes but for patients suffering from heart palpitations and murmurs, and even doctors who have patients suffering from similar ailments." View full article →Canoe.ca Techno Science: A smart shirt from Quebec, in the footsteps of Google Glass
Google Glass has become the emblem of an emerging trend in information technology: wearable technology (smart clothes and accessories). With its Hexoskin shirt, Carré Technologies of Montreal, is following in Google's footsteps, but aiming at elite sports. View full article →La Presse - From Rosemont to outer space
"They often have no revenue, and keep going on risk and ambition alone. But some startups manage to take off quite spectacularly. The Business Section of La Presse spent a year with Hexoskin. Their product, a high-tech shirt, which they were having difficulty positioning, has now been tested by both astronauts and professional athletes."
View full article →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...
La Presse: Quantified self - it's all about you
This article is in French.
Pierre-Alexandre Fournier, a graduate of Polytechnique, young entrepreneur and co-founder of Hexoskin, is showing off his baby: a shirt. It looks like an ordinary sports shirt, like a cyclist or runner would weare, except that integrated into the fabric of the garment are sensors. Using a battery that weighs 90 grams, about as much as an iPod nano, the shirt in question enables you to track how many calories you use up, the quality of your sleep, and your cardiac activity, day or night.
While Fournier explains the shirt he's wearing, we can see his heart beats on the screen behind him.
View full article →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.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."
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