[News] Empatica Seizure Watch now shipping

[Nakamova]

Called 'Embrace", the watch detects different kinds of stress:

"Temperature sensors detect a spike in body heat, gyroscopes and accelerometers detect movement (smartphones have these, too), and much of the magic derives from tech that can detect electric changes across the skin — a feature that changes when a person is anxious, or depressed, or about to undergo a seizure. It buzzes to warn the wearer when an epileptic episode is on the way.

It will be interesting to see how this fares in the real world.

http://www.betaboston.com/news/2016/03/09/empatica-begins-shipping-seizure-tracking-wristband/

 

[Bernard]

Sounds like it is measuring galvanic skin response which has been used as a measuring device for biofeedback for many years (see for example: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15123023 ).