Gait & movement

Smart socks that read how you walk.

Our sensing socks measure every step, mapping pressure from heel strike to toe-off on both feet, to track subtle gait changes linked to Parkinson’s disease, Alzheimer’s disease and other neurological conditions, continuously and at home.

• Soft, sock-integrated sensing. Flexible and liquid-metal pressure sensors built into a comfortable sock.
• Clinically meaningful metrics. Cadence, stride timing, stance and swing, and left-right symmetry.
• Connected. IoT streaming for long-term monitoring of disease progression outside the clinic.

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Physical & digital twins

Tested twice before it touches a patient.

Every sensor we design is evaluated on a physical twin, an anatomical phantom with controlled blood flow and pressure, and on a digital twin, a computational model of the same tissue and device.

• Mechanics. Contact pressure, tissue deformation and strain at the sensor interface, simulated before we build.
• Electrical. Electrode–skin impedance, current paths and field distribution for ECG and bioimpedance designs.
• Closed loop. Phantom measurements calibrate the models, and the models predict the next design.

Nanoparticle & nucleic acid sensing

Amplify without enzymes. Read with light.

Engineered DNA probes on gold nanoparticles recognize cardiovascular biomarkers, then trigger an enzyme-free isothermal amplification that pulls the nanoparticles together. The plasmonic hot spots between them boost Raman signals for sensitive, multiplexed detection outside the central lab.

• Nucleic acid engineering. Programmable DNA probes designed for specific cardiovascular disease biomarkers.
• Enzyme-free amplification. Isothermal reactions that run without enzymes or thermocyclers.
• SERS readout. Surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy gives each reporter its own spectral fingerprint, so several biomarkers are read at once.
• Built for low-resource settings. Sensitive detection without a central laboratory.