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You Wear It... Well

By Jeff Hiserman, PT

Wearables; where fashion and technology intersect. News on the people, technology, and research in the world of medical and consumer health wearables
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An Exoskeleton that Leads a Double Life: Part One

You Wear It... WellOct 03, 2022

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28:44
The Amazing Disappearing Wire- Part One

The Amazing Disappearing Wire- Part One

Igor Efimov, Ph.D., Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Professor of Medicine (Cardiology) at Northwestern University, shares his research on a dissolvable cardiac monitor. https://www.mccormick.northwestern.edu/research-faculty/directory/profiles/efimov-igor.html

https://www.efimovlab.com/

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=4Bitim0AAAAJ&hl=en

Nov 27, 202324:45
The Power of Sweat: Part Two

The Power of Sweat: Part Two

In this last part, Hemi Re'em CEO and founder of YOPI, shares some of the struggles to get the product ready for the market.


https://www.yopitech.com/#/

Nov 20, 202317:49
The Power of Sweat: Part One

The Power of Sweat: Part One

Hemi Re'em, CEO and Founder of YOPI shares his story of how YOPI came to be.


https://www.yopitech.com/#/

Nov 13, 202323:34
This Robot Was Made For Walking

This Robot Was Made For Walking

Özgür Ege Aydoğan shares his Master's degree research- https://www.linkedin.com/posts/ozgur-ege-aydogan-354908169_robotics-softrobotics-bioinspiredrobotics-activity-7112758832920989696-du8H?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop



https://www.linkedin.com/in/ozgur-ege-aydogan-354908169

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=4NipTUQAAAAJ&hl=en

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ozgur-Ege-Aydogan

Nov 06, 202325:01
Shouldering a Remarkably Difficult Task

Shouldering a Remarkably Difficult Task

Özgür Ege Aydoğan, shares the details of his remarkable research-Development of A 5-DOF Impedance-Controlled Wearable Upper Limb Exoskeletal Robot- https://www.worldscientific.com/doi/full/10.1142/S0219519423500574

https://www.linkedin.com/in/ozgur-ege-aydogan-354908169

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=4NipTUQAAAAJ&hl=en

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ozgur-Ege-Aydogan


Oct 29, 202323:14
Artimus Robotics- Part Two- What is the HASEL About?

Artimus Robotics- Part Two- What is the HASEL About?

Eric Acome, PhD gives the details on the Artimus HASEL actuators

https://www.artimusrobotics.com/

Oct 22, 202320:22
Artimus Robotics- Part One- A Start Up Flexing Its Muscles

Artimus Robotics- Part One- A Start Up Flexing Its Muscles

Eric Acome, PhD shares the beginnings of Artimus and just what artificial muscles are.



https://www.artimusrobotics.com/

Oct 15, 202322:03
Adaptive Fashion Designer- Kat's Clothing out of the Bag and on the Runway

Adaptive Fashion Designer- Kat's Clothing out of the Bag and on the Runway

Adaptive Fashion Designer, Kat Paylor-Bent, discusses what it is like to have your fashion on the runway at London Fashion Week. https://www.linkedin.com/in/kat-paylor-bent-98631397/

https://seatedsewing.co.uk/

Oct 08, 202325:21
Adaptive Fashion Designer- It's More Than Just A Business

Adaptive Fashion Designer- It's More Than Just A Business

Adaptive Fashion Designer and Entrepreneur, Kat Paylor-Bent, shares how she got into her sewing business and her design for clients.


https://www.linkedin.com/in/kat-paylor-bent-98631397/?originalSubdomain=uk

https://seatedsewing.co.uk/

Oct 01, 202319:26
Adaptive Fashion Design: Have It Your Way

Adaptive Fashion Design: Have It Your Way

Adaptive Fashion Designer and Entrepreneur, Kat Paylor-Bent, shares how she got into Adaptive Fashion Design.


https://www.linkedin.com/in/kat-paylor-bent-98631397/?originalSubdomain=uk

https://seatedsewing.co.uk/

Sep 24, 202318:37
Going Digital for Adaptive Clothing Design

Going Digital for Adaptive Clothing Design

The use of software to help design adaptive clothing, an interesting research read.


https://ibn.idsi.md/sites/default/files/imag_file/Digital%20methods%20in%20the%20development%20of%20adaptive%20clothing%20for%20people.pdf

Sep 17, 202322:50
Furthering Adaptive Fashion Design

Furthering Adaptive Fashion Design

This the last of the third segment on recommendations from academia for adaptive design integration both into the curriculum and society.

Sep 10, 202321:01
Adaptive Fashion: Historical and Educational Perspectives

Adaptive Fashion: Historical and Educational Perspectives

This is Part Three in the Adaptive Fashion Design Series in which we look at perspectives from the 2018 and 2019 International Textile and Apparel Association Annual Conference Proceedings.

Sep 03, 202319:36
Adaptive Wear Designers- Funmi Lawal- Part Two
Aug 27, 202312:38
Adaptive Wear Designers- Funmi Lawal- Part One
Aug 20, 202318:39
Adaptive Wear Designers- Fernanda Bassetto- Part Three

Adaptive Wear Designers- Fernanda Bassetto- Part Three

Fernanda Bassetto gives insight into what makes a fashion designer move into adaptive wear design and the challenges that go with it.



https://uk.linkedin.com/in/fernanda-bassetto-02b09266

Aug 13, 202319:50
Adaptive Wear Designers- Fernanda Bassetto- Part Two

Adaptive Wear Designers- Fernanda Bassetto- Part Two

Fernanda Bassetto shares more about just what it takes to add the fashion to a wearable designed for elderly.



https://uk.linkedin.com/in/fernanda-bassetto-02b09266

Aug 06, 202319:09
Adaptive Wear Designers- Fernanda Bassetto- Part One

Adaptive Wear Designers- Fernanda Bassetto- Part One

Fernanda Bassetto shares her background into becoming an adaptive wear designer.


https://uk.linkedin.com/in/fernanda-bassetto-02b09266

Jul 30, 202325:17
Fully Dressed

Fully Dressed

A review article on the present situation with e textiles in the medical wearable market.

Jul 23, 202328:22
Fabric That Takes A Bite Out Of Your Life

Fabric That Takes A Bite Out Of Your Life

Researchers have developed a fabric that prevents mosquitoes from biting through it.

Jul 16, 202320:01
IoT and All Things Stretchy

IoT and All Things Stretchy

Two research articles describing flexible sensors that are bringing the future to a health care practitioner near you.

Jul 09, 202320:48
Tech Your Body Back: A Pilot Study on Lower Back Pain Relief- Part Two

Tech Your Body Back: A Pilot Study on Lower Back Pain Relief- Part Two

Billie Whitehouse, CEO of Wearable X, and Maddi Gong, Lead Apparel Engineer, of Wearable X describe the details of their desire to transition Nadi X from a consumer wearable to a medical wearable.


https://www.wearablex.com/pages/how-it-works

https://ecronicon.net/ecor_volume14_issue1

Jul 02, 202321:03
Tech Your Body Back: A Pilot Study on Lower Back Pain Relief- Part One

Tech Your Body Back: A Pilot Study on Lower Back Pain Relief- Part One

Billie Whitehouse, CEO of Wearable X and Maddi Gong, Lead Apparel Engineer of Wearable X, share their backgrounds and how Nadi X yoga pants came to be.


https://www.wearablex.com/pages/how-it-works

https://ecronicon.net/ecor_volume14_issue1

Jun 25, 202323:29
Laying It On Your Heart- Part Two

Laying It On Your Heart- Part Two

Dr. Dmitry Kireev shares more details on the graphene sheet that covers the heart and gives accurate EKG readings.


https://www.linkedin.com/in/kirdmitry/

https://www.ece.utexas.edu/people/researchers/dmitry-kireev

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=B8VFZxsAAAAJ&hl=en

Jun 18, 202321:48
Laying It On Your Heart- Part One

Laying It On Your Heart- Part One

Dr. Dmitry Kireev discusses the genesis of the graphene patch that gives EKG readings.


https://www.ece.utexas.edu/people/researchers/dmitry-kireev

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=B8VFZxsAAAAJ&hl=en

https://www.linkedin.com/in/kirdmitry/

Jun 11, 202324:50
Elastomers Muscling Up and AI Has Got You By the Throat!

Elastomers Muscling Up and AI Has Got You By the Throat!

The very latest research in artificial muscle materials and multimodal single sensors placed over the throat and utilizing AI for medical data interpretation.

Jun 04, 202324:01
Closing the Loop

Closing the Loop

A recent perspective from researchers shows much potential for wearable responsiveness to physiological tissue to close the loop. An exoskeleton shows it is heads up with regards to above shoulder tasks.

May 28, 202326:16
Power Movements- A Triboelectric Experience

Power Movements- A Triboelectric Experience

Listen to the latest in research on movement powered sensors in fabrics- the next phase in powering.

May 21, 202319:43
A Ring Around Hypertension- Part Two

A Ring Around Hypertension- Part Two

Dr. Kaan Sel describes the inner workings of the ring.



https://www.linkedin.com/in/kaansel/

https://jafari.tamu.edu/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/roozbeh-jafari-ab274b2/

May 14, 202324:52
A Ring Around Hypertension- Part One

A Ring Around Hypertension- Part One

Dr. Kaan Sel shares his team's early days in the development of the ring.



https://www.linkedin.com/in/kaansel/

https://jafari.tamu.edu/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/roozbeh-jafari-ab274b2/

May 07, 202325:31
Voice Minder- Part Two

Voice Minder- Part Two

In this the last of two episodes, Theresa Brancaccio, mezzo-soprano, and Senior Lecturer at Northwestern University, tells about the many uses of the wearable and explains it's inner workings.

https://news.northwestern.edu/stories/2023/02/first-wearable-device-for-vocal-fatigue-senses-when-your-voice-needs-a-break/

https://www.music.northwestern.edu/faculty/profile/theresa-brancaccio

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36802437/

https://www.singersavvyapp.com/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvonQCRRXwQ&t=2s

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36802437/

https://www.music.northwestern.edu/news/2021/music-and-breath


Apr 30, 202319:48
Voice Minder- Part One

Voice Minder- Part One

Theresa Brancaccio, mezzo-soprano, is a Senior Lecturer at Northwestern University where she has taught voice and vocal pedagogy since 1999. She shares her story of how she came upon the idea for the Singer Savvy app she helped to developed.

https://news.northwestern.edu/stories/2023/02/first-wearable-device-for-vocal-fatigue-senses-when-your-voice-needs-a-break/

https://www.music.northwestern.edu/faculty/profile/theresa-brancaccio

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36802437/

https://www.singersavvyapp.com/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvonQCRRXwQ&t=2s

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36802437/

https://www.music.northwestern.edu/news/2021/music-and-breath

Apr 23, 202320:02
With This Ring...Part Two

With This Ring...Part Two

In this the final episode, Mike Warren, CDO and Founder of Musering, shares the company's vision to free up our hands from the cell phone tether.


https://www.musering.com/

Mike Warren, CDO and Founder of Musering shares the company's genesis and current technology wizardry.


Mike@MuseRing.com

linkedin/in/michaelkeithwarren https://www.musering.com/

Apr 16, 202327:47
With This Ring...Part One

With This Ring...Part One

Mike Warren, CDO and Founder of Musering shares the company's genesis and current technology wizardry.


Mike@MuseRing.com

linkedin/in/michaelkeithwarren

https://www.musering.com/


Apr 09, 202324:49
A Hair Raising Experience- Part Two
Apr 02, 202319:45
A Hair Raising Experience- Part One
Mar 26, 202323:34
Sweating the (stress) details- Part Two
Mar 19, 202321:20
Sweating the (stress) details- Part One
Mar 12, 202325:21
Stalking The Silent Killer- Part Two
Mar 06, 202321:13
Stalking The Silent Killer- Part One
Feb 27, 202322:44
`A la carte Sensing- What Will It Be For You? Third Course

`A la carte Sensing- What Will It Be For You? Third Course

Davide Vignano, Co-founder and CEO of Sensoria, discusses the many uses of sensors in healthcare.

https://www.sensoriahealth.com/

Feb 20, 202324:10
`A la carte Sensing- What Will It Be For You? Second Course

`A la carte Sensing- What Will It Be For You? Second Course

Davide Vignano, Co-founder and CEO of Sensoria, discusses the use of sensors in the varied products of Sensoria.

https://www.sensoriahealth.com/

Feb 13, 202324:09
`A la carte Sensing- What Will It Be For You? First Course

`A la carte Sensing- What Will It Be For You? First Course

Davide Vignano, Co-founder and CEO of Sensoria, shares the inspiration and foundational days of Sensoria.


https://www.sensoriahealth.com/

Feb 06, 202325:41
Movin' In Your Groove Yet? Part Two

Movin' In Your Groove Yet? Part Two

In this the last of two parts, Dr. Michael April reveals the practical application of Welmetrix.


https://welmetrix.com/april/appinfo.nsf/index.xsp

Jan 30, 202336:42
Movin' In Your Groove Yet? Part One

Movin' In Your Groove Yet? Part One

Dr. Michael April shares his inspiration for starting his company, Welmetrix.

https://welmetrix.com/april/appinfo.nsf/index.xsp


Jan 23, 202326:27
The Stim That Strengthens- Part Two

The Stim That Strengthens- Part Two

Dr. Victoria Sparkes shares what NMES group is currently working on and the direction of the company.


http://www.nmesgroup.com/


http://www.dipulse.com/

Jan 16, 202320:29
The Stim That Strengthens-Part One

The Stim That Strengthens-Part One

Dr. Victoria Sparkes shares the beginning of NMES group as a start up and its mission.


http://www.dipulse.com/

http://www.nmesgroup.com/

Jan 09, 202325:34
Thank You in '22

Thank You in '22

My heartfelt thanks to all my very special guests and, of course, my listeners who made 2022 a great year. Copy and paste link below to find out more about this podcast and just what kind of listener a You Wear It... Well listener is!


https://wrappedforpodcasters.byspotify.com/en/?id=1f6c469590c0f861d2422b60427da62da43cfabe yo61b032f808110b663a4c80dc0

Dec 31, 202207:11
Hey, Take a (High Tech) Hike!

Hey, Take a (High Tech) Hike!

The latest research on hill and mountain climbing you wear on your feet!

Dec 24, 202212:41
What is Close to Your Heart and Suits You Well?

What is Close to Your Heart and Suits You Well?

The answers to the question? Tune in to find out what is new in research.

Dec 22, 202227:52