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NEWS AND UPDATES
Smart Shoes and Parkinson’s: Seeking European Partners for Gait Analysis Grant Application
Thrive Wearables is the leading wearable technology design and development consultancy based in the UK, making an impact in global health and wellbeing through bringing wearable innovations to market. Call for Partners: We are seeking to partner up with European...
What’s next for stress management technology?
Dave Sandbach is Thrive’s co-founder and Director of Innovation. With a broad career history developing smart fabrics, green tech and assistive technologies, Dave has worked extensively with high-impact, user-centred technology and is currently very active in the...
Stress management revolutionary wearable to hit mass production stage
We have been working with BioSelf, a London and Los Angeles based startup, on their revolutionary wearable product tackling stress and anxiety. Sensate is designed to calm your fight-flight-freeze response, to relax you in the moment and improve your stress resilience...
Welcome to our new Head of Grants and Partnerships
This month, we’ve had our new Head of Grants and Partnerships, Dr Shashi Pandya, start at Thrive. Shashi will be primarily using her successful grant writing skills to secure relevant funding, and working with strategically aligned organisations and projects. Shashi...
Product Development Engineer Zima on femtech and her unconventional journey to wearable tech
Zima Pawulska is a member of the Thrive tech team, a Product Development Engineer and Project Lead. She holds a BSc in Product Design and an MSc in Robotics and Autonomous Systems. Recently, she’s been working with Moonly to create a prototype of a belt which provides...
Smart fabrics are finally weaving their way onto the market
SMARTSmart fabrics are finally weaving their way onto the marketAll innovative new technologies go through a relatively similar process of maturing from brand-new theoretical concepts into tangible products with the potential for mass production. This can take more...
PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT INSIGHTS
Shoe wearables – stepping into a new era for healthcare
Shoe wearables Stepping into a new era for healthcare Connected shoe technology is a growing field with a broad range of applications, and it is set to make a significant contribution to the world of health and wellbeing over the next few years. How does this...
Will health monitoring be revolutionised by hearable technology in 2021?
Hearables, headphones or earphones that use digital technology to improve the listening experience, connect us to smart assistants or monitor our health, are set to be one of the next big revolutions in wearables. Here’s a look at how that will happen. As smart...
Production validation is the final sprint to the line of wearable product development
In this series of posts on prototyping, we explore how wearable technology is created. Through tried and tested prototyping iterations, we look at how to deliver game-changing wearable technology products from idea to mass production. Every product is different, but...
Bringing a product to life through a Form Factor Prototype
Creating a System Prototype gives us the opportunity to create a fully functional prototype of the system without needing to miniaturise everything.
Closer to market with a Concept Prototype
In this series of posts on prototyping, we explore how wearable technology is created. Through tried and tested prototyping iterations, we look at how to deliver game-changing wearable technology products from idea to mass production. Every product is different, but...
System Prototypes may look ugly, but they sure do work!
Creating a System Prototype gives us the opportunity to create a fully functional prototype of the system without needing to miniaturise everything.
