Meet Isowalk.

Isowalk is the world's first intelligent walking assistant. It replaces primitive canes with modern technology that's been designed from the ground up to adapt itself to each individual user and actively help them walk.

A breakthrough in personal mobility, Isowalk combines the best of modern ergonomics, orthopedics, biomechanics, aerospace engineering and aesthetic design. Isowalk's innovations have already been awarded two U.S. patents.

Our goal: Help millions of people walk.

We believe Isowalk is already the world's best walking assistant, even while it's still in beta.

With your help, we will tool and manufacture the first Isowalks in volume and make this revolutionary mobility aid available to the world. Contributors will be first to get one, of course -- for themselves or a loved one.

With a successful campaign, we will also deploy the digital intelligence (see below) that will make Isowalk a wireless 'smart object' for digital health and security applications.

Should we be lucky enough to exceed our goal, we'd use your generous support to make more Isowalks, of course.  But you'll also be helping accelerate our plans for specialized models for every kind of user, application and budget, including seniors, athletics, recovery, obesity and pediatrics.

 We believe that everyone who needs or wants this technology should have it. 

Real walking assistance. It's about time!

The most common walking aid is the cane, which is very likely the world's oldest technology. It actually shows up in Egyptian hieroglyphics and has barely changed for thousands of years.

In terms of ergonomics and usability (not to mention looks!), canes are an epic fail, which is why virtually everyone hates to use one. They're uncomfortable, painful, awkward -- the ultimate 'dumb' device. A cane doesn't help you walk. Its real purpose is to keep you from falling.

Isowalk (finally) applies modern principles and technologies to walking assistance.  Here's how this revolutionary device takes us beyond today's crude canes and sticks:

Isowalk and the Internet of Things

Isowalk already has native biomechanical intelligence that will be built into every model.  But the fun really starts as we begin to add digital intelligence for Isowalk Connected.

Advances in low-power wireless technologies (Bluetooth, ANT+, Z-Wave, etc.) and similar advances in touch and pressure sensitive materials open a tremendous range of smart applications for Isowalk in the Internet of Things. Possibilities include real-time and archived progress feedback, location detection, and interaction with motion sensors at home or away.

We've already identified several of the most appropriate wireless solutions that are practical for these kinds of applications.  Our team is connected to extensive leading-edge expertise in wireless technologies, as well as a world-class testing facility.

With a successful campaign, we will not only launch the first Isowalks to the market, we'll also select the winning digital platform(s) and build the initial edition of the first Isowalk Connected models. 

Who is Isowalk?

Isowalk is a bootstrapped startup, seeded by a core group of friends and family and spearheaded by me - Ron Goldberg.  I'm a 25-year consumer technologies veteran and ninja innovator and have a long history of helping to launch new technologies into the world. 

If you know me (hi!), you already know the kinds of people and organizations that I work with.  If you don't know me, a look at my LinkedIn or Facebook page gives you some background. With a bit of trawling, you can also see my profile at the Innovation Movement.

Through my longtime work in the consumer electronics industry, I'm privileged to work closely with some of its most renowned experts in hardware, software and manufacturing. These friends and colleagues make up Isowalk's enviable collective expertise, giving their time, talent and experience because they believe deeply in this project. You can read more about them in our FAQ below.

As for the rest of our core team, they are fellow visionaries that have brought Isowalk to life with funding, sweat, time, thoughtfulness and discounted invoices.

Isowalk is a startup, but we are by no means rookies at bringing out new technologies. Far from it.

Why are we doing this?

Let's face it, no matter what shape you're in or how old you are, nobody wants to think about walking assistance. I know I didn't, until I watched my own parents struggle in their final years.

Then I started seeing the problem everywhere.  

Athletic friends hobbling with a stick. Boomer friends too self conscious to use a stick. Older people not walking enough because their stick not only doesn't help, it hurts.

You've probably never thought about it either. That is, unless -- or maybe until, because life happens -- you or someone you love wants or needs the help. Nobody thinks about any of this. Until it's needed.

When it is, all that's really available to you is a cane. Whether it's a plain one or a fancy one, a folding one or a gimmicky one, a cane is still literally as dumb as a stick.

Always uncomfortable. Usually ugly. Never actively assistive. Outside of color and other minor variations, there's virtually no difference between any of them.

It's 2013 and we're all still stuck with a stick. Why?  Easy -- they cost almost nothing to make and are extremely profitable for big companies that sell many millions of them around the world, year in and year out.

When not bothering to innovate is so easy and profitable, who wants to do it?

We do.

What's in it for you?

We bet you like helping people as much as we do. And by helping to launch Isowalk, you'll be helping a lot of people. Your contribution to this visionary product makes you a visionary too, and vision has its perks. 

We'll be offering Isowalks, of course. We'll also be offering cool stuff ranging from always-welcome T-shirts, to files you can use in a 3D printer to accessorize your Isowalk!

Contributors will be making Isowalk happen. You (or a loved one!) get one first!

Print your own individual 3D ornaments for your Isowalk!

One day, all canes will work like this.

Check out the perks, we hope you like them!  Contributors that help launch Isowalk can be the first owners of revolutionary technology that's sure to become collectable, and have their name, in digital ones and zeroes, inside of every connected Isowalk from now on.

How will we use your contribution?

Our team, including myself (see FAQ below). has decades of A-list experience in bringing new tech products to market. We have complete confidence in our ability to bring out Isowalk and will keep contributors closely updated on our continual progress!

We sincerely hope you'll help us bring this groundbreaking technology to the many millions of people worldwide who have been waiting for just such a thing.

Thanks for reading, and thanks for your support!  

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