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Embrace is a watch that looks great on anyone. It can track your activity, stress and overall balance.
It is designed to bring a better lifestyle to people that live with Epilepsy: they get an alert when an unusual event happens, like a convulsive seizure, warning them and their loved ones.
EMBRACE IN THE PRESS
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BUY 1 GIVE 1 INITIATIVE
Thanks for your support, you made possible to donate 1,540 Embrace watches to families in need that live with epilepsy.
Discover more: Am I eligible for a donated Embrace?
EMBRACE EXPERIENCE
A GORGEOUS SMART WATCH FOR YOU
Embrace is a medical quality device to monitor and better understand your behavior. Embrace is designed to be a gorgeous watch: the band is lush Italian leather and the case is strong, polished metal.
Embrace is the thinnest smart watch of this kind ever made. It snaps on, then tightens with a magnet for perfect fit.
You can choose to use it simply as a watch to tell time, in which case your battery should last 6 months.
Embrace makes it very easy to monitor physiological stress, arousal, sleep and physical activity.
You can check your entire day in a glance in a way that is easy to understand. Not only during exercise, but also at work, during your commute, during the night. If you push yourself too much, the Embrace will gently remind you with a vibration, that you need some time to recover. You can customize it to suit your needs and behavior.
This is what wearables were supposed to be: quiet, small, useful.
DESIGNED TO SAVE LIVES
When people that have Epilepsy wear Embrace, they will get an alert when an unusual event happens, like a convulsive seizure. It will go via their smartphone to parents, roommates or caregivers, so somebody can check on them. Additionally, one of these caregivers can wear a 'companion' Embrace too. When the two Embraces are within range (e.g. in nearby rooms), the 'companion' Embrace worn by the caregivers will vibrate to alert them.
Discover more: Can Embrace work with any type of seizure?
Electrodermal activity, or EDA, is autonomic data that is activated by regions deep in the brain involved in emotions such as fear, anxiety, and positive excitement. It is strongly activated during the kinds of seizures that involve a region of the brain that has been shown to shut down breathing. If you are interested in the scientific literature, you can check it here.
You can see the powerful medical findings that can be obtained from our work in journals such as Epilepsia, Neurology, Nature - and we are planning to go for FDA clearance.
IF YOU GET AN EMBRACE, A CHILD WITH EPILEPSY WILL GET ONE TOO
Your Embrace will help someone to have a better life.
We are partnering with the Epilepsy foundation and private donors.
Due to the generosity of a group of donors that know Empatica and its mission, the first 4000 Embrace watches purchased by this campaign before Dec 24, 2014 BEFORE JANUARY 21st will be matched 1:1, loaded with the seizure detector app, and donated to the Epilepsy Foundation for distribution to families in need.
1 of every 26 people in the USA will suffer from Epilepsy at some point in their lifetime (Institute of Medicine, 2012). Today, approximately 65 million people suffer from Epilepsy worldwide.
More people die of SUDEP (Sudden Unexpected Death in Epilepsy) than of house fires every year. But every home has a smoke detector. Everybody with epilepsy should have a device that alerts people in their vicinity so that they can promptly provide assistance when needed. Your purchase here can contribute to build a better world for these people!
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MEDICAL GRADE TECHNOLOGY
Some of our clients are listed above. You can find many more at www.empatica.com.
We have gained a lot of experience in wearable technology and have successfully delivered products. Our first model, E3, is the most comfortable and accurate wristband to monitor physiological signals in real time. It is used today by many of the world's most famous hospitals, universities, and companies to study human behavior in real life. We recently introduced the new version, the E4 wristband. (You can learn more here).
We are completing the process for the E4 wristband to receive clearance as a Medical device in Europe, and we are planning to do the same with FDA in the US. We also are preparing this for Embrace. We are very researcher-friendly and also provide open APIs, so that you can build whatever app you want, while we take care of the difficult parts.
WHAT THE EXPERTS SAY
OUR STORY
In 2007, Prof. Picard's team at the MIT Media Lab developed a wearable that measured changes on the surface of the skin communicating the main component of stress. For the first time in daily life, you could easily see when stress started to grow, even before you might notice it.
While trying to help people with autism to be better understood, Picard found an unusually huge response from one participant. It turned out to be a seizure! This led to new investigations with Boston Children's hospital in Boston. With data from over 90 patients, the team learned they had built a more accurate method for seizure detection. Their research became published in top peer-reviewed medical and engineering journals, patents were issued, and a version of their sensor is now in use in hundreds of top labs, universities, and hospitals.
While research continues for epilepsy and other medical conditions, many families have asked us for a personal version of the device to give alerts when a seizure might be happening. Experts tell us that these alerts could save lives. Also, many friends keep asking us for a low-cost version “to see when stress is escalating” in themselves or a spouse or child. Our wearable can help with all of these needs!
At Empatica, we marry the best science with the best of design and customer experience. We're proud to finally be launching Embrace, addressing the needs of all – whether you live with stress, seizures, or simply want a gorgeous way to tell the time!
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EMBRACE FEATURES
EMBRACE APPS
Embrace can run multiple apps in real time, sending data wirelessly to your phone.
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At launch, Embrace will come with two apps:
(1) Empatica Mate, personal stress, sleep, and activity feedback for everybody. Empatica Mate also comes with a diary for understanding better your daily life.
(2) Empatica Alert, an event detector for people with Epilepsy.
Empatica Mate
This app will provide you with customized insights on your behavior. You can set up Embrace to vibrate when you reach a certain level that you want to monitor. For example, you can set it to vibrate gently when your body's stress level is climbing, before it gets too high, while you can still have a positive response.
Empatica Mate makes it easy for you to see how your body's stress levels changed with your daily activities.
Empatica Mate can also show detail how your body's stress level changed during each of your daily activities, like commuting by car vs. bike, meeting with your boss vs. a friend, and physical activity.
Monitoring System
Empatica Alert
In addition to the capabilities above, you will be able to monitor events that might be a convulsive seizure, and get an alert that will go both to the wearer (where it can be silenced if needed) and to selected family members or friends who can bring help.
Discover more: How quickly can the caregiver be notified?
This app will have a premium service with more features. All those who buy an Embrace during Indiegogo will have 6 months of access to the Premium version.
Alert System
APIs
Like we did with our research device, we plan to open our APIs, so that many other medical conditions can benefit from the same data.
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ABOUT
MILESTONES
This is our plan for Embrace
TEAM
We are an ultra passionate team, based in Milan (Italy) and Cambridge (USA).
DATA + SERVICE
We take a great deal of care into protecting your personal information. The data are ultra secure and private, with state of the art encryption.
We think data about yourself should be owned by you. We might ask you to allow your data to be used to improve research and benefit science, but every system will be opt-in and you can choose freely to participate or not.
USE OF FUNDS
Your money is in experienced and trustworthy hands, because we already have a reputable name and have delivered successful products to top researchers and hospitals. Also we are working on Embrace with top industrial designers (Pearl Studios) and with one of the best manufacturers of well-known successful consumer devices. We already have prototypes in hand being tested and iterated on. Your funds will be used to expedite making this product a reality, as tooling and production are very expensive to do with the highest quality, and we set a high bar.
Your contribution will make this fine product a reality AND will help people living with Epilepsy!
QUOTES FROM THE PRESS
"The Embrace has the slickness of a Jawbone Up and the brains of a PhD student."
"The ultra thin Embrace is the culmination of several years of research."
"A fascinating story about the role of accidental discoveries in science and design."
"Makes it easier for people with epilepsy to detect seizures and let others know when they need help."
"Embrace, is rather different from the latest offerings from Apple, Samsung and Motorola: it can spot the warning signs of an epileptic seizure."
"A diary for understanding your daily life better."
"Embrace is the medical-grade wearable we've been waiting for."
"A wearable device that monitors seizures, promises improvements in epilepsy treatments and research"
"The final product design is sleek and minimal—a key consideration in encouraging people to wear medical devices."
"The Embrace isn't just an attractive looking smartwatch that can do all the usual fitness-tracker tricks. It's designed to help epileptics track and manage their seizures without feeling stigmatized."
"Because Embrace tracks day-to-day activity, the data retrieved may help researchers further understand the factors that can be attributed to seizures."
"It can also do something most watches don’t: send out an epilepsy alert."
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SUPPORT CENTER
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