Embrace Watch

Embrace Watch is a watch designed for use by individuals with neurological disorders such as seizures and epilepsy. It will alert family members and caregivers if an unusual event happens, like a convulsive or seizure via their smartphone. This will alert a family member or a caregiver to check on the wearer of the watch. 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. 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.