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Michael Brooks
Skiin Smart Clothing (Beta) — Decentralizing healthcare with smart clothing
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Skiin is a new interface designed to collect base biometric data using textile computing—sensors knitted directly into everyday clothing that capture biometrics.
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Michael Brooks
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Hey PH, I’m Michael, the Social Media & Content Strategist at Myant. Skiin began with Tony (our founder & CEO) and his love for his father. With his father’s worsening dementia, Tony realized a nursing home could give him the care he needed. However, being separated by both distance and physical/cognitive ability made it difficult to connect with and care for his father. How do you stay connected when you’re so far apart? Many of us can relate; during the pandemic, people around the world have felt detached and isolated from those we love. This is especially true for those who are chronically ill, part of the aging population, or are part of other marginalized members of society. Tony believed that a platform capturing continuous, bi-directional biometric data could better connect him and his father. The ability to quickly access his biometrics, activity level, and location data would open a window into his father’s well-being. But he also realized such a system could also help decentralize healthcare by lowering the barrier of entry for those often left behind in our current system. Remote monitoring through connected clothing could remove many of the challenges that come with the traditional healthcare system. One of the largest—physical distance—could be negated with remote, continuous monitoring, allowing anyone to connect to the best practitioners with a wealth of historical data. But Tony couldn’t find a solution that met his vision. Instead, he built a multidisciplinary team that could build one. 11 years of research, design, and development later, Skiin is finally here! Skiin Innerwear is a collection of garments that continuously collect a person’s biometrics through sensors woven into the band (starting with underwear, with other form factors coming soon). With the discrete Skiin Pod inserted into the waistband and connected to the Skiin App (iOS and Android), both you and your loved one can review their metrics, including heart rate, activity, core body temperature, and location—all within the app. Get Skiin for Free We’d like to share that our Open Beta Early Access Program (EAP) is now available. If you and/or a loved one qualify, you can get Skiin at no cost (a $500 value). Please visit Skiin.com to learn more and apply—we don’t have too many openings left and we’re ending applications after May 31st. Please let me know if you have any thoughts to share or any questions about Skiin or the future of Textile Computing and healthcare!
Ian
What's the benefit of it being underwear vs a Garmin/Fitbit/Apple watch?
Michael Brooks
Maker
Hey Ian, great question! A few of our main points of differentiation: 1. Future biometrics💖: Skiin's Innerwear garments collect heart rate, body temperature, movement, and location. We're looking to update existing garments (and launch new form factors) to capture blood pressure, SPO2, and many more—more than traditional wearables. This will reduce the need for more dedicated, disparate devices. 2. Layered system🩲: Skiin's Innerwear is the first layer of Skiin that collects your biometrics. Our second layers will interact with the first, providing benefits like heat therapy (coming soon through our Heat Therapy Collection) when your core body temperature drops below your set threshold. Excited to say more layers and collections are coming! 3. Bi-directional🔗: to the above point, wearables are not bi-directional—but we're working toward building an ambient interface that makes this possible. Here's an article written by our CEO on the concept: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/a... 4. Comfortable form factor & accuracy👕: Textile Computing leverages a form factor people are already comfortable with. Various sensors that cover different areas of the body are necessary for accurate, meaningful data output. We chose textiles because they cover more surface area than a traditional wearable that sits on your wrist or head. 5. Outcome-oriented💭: capturing biometric data is important, but what you're able to do with that data is even more so. We see ourselves working with partners to help diagnose the onset of illness (as part of our upcoming public trial) as well as help from a preventive perspective, leveraging real-time and historical data. 6. Continuous⌚: biometric data collection in a near-continuous fashion doesn't exist today. In order to achieve a baseline understanding and awareness of your health, the aggregation of various data sources will be required. Skiin is only one of the various mechanisms you can use to collect that data; we invite data from all wearables to achieve truly continuous (24 hours/day) biometric data collection. Hope this helps shed some light, Ian!
Nicolo S
Very cool product! I can see this making a real difference in many peoples’ lives 👏
Michael Brooks
Maker
@coconidodev Hey Nicolo, thank you! We're excited to see how innovations in Textile Computing will connect everyone to care and those they care about—no matter where they are.