/“We tried to design a medical device that also looks good. It’s a very, very simple device with a ring of LEDs that tells you the time,” says Matteo Lai, showing off his company’s medical-grade wearable, Embrace.
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Embrace is the result of more than eight years of work by Empatica, a startup that emerged from the MIT Media Lab. It is equipped with a range of sensors integrated into almost all smartphones and connected objects on the market (an accelerometer, a gyroscope), but it is also equipped with an electrodermal activity sensor, a real-time stress indicator capable of predicting the onset of epileptic seizures. Embrace was designed primarily for people who suffer from these seizures.

As Lai takes the stage at WIRED Health in London, he points out that right this minute, people around the world will be receiving their pre-ordered Apple Watches. Embrace has come a long way since the first models in 2007, which Lai acknowledges were “shoddy.”

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