Samsung creates headgear prototype to help monitor concussions in sports
 

Samsung creates headgear prototype to help monitor concussions in sports
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Samsung Australia has created a prototype for a device to be worn during contact sports, in an effort to monitor concussions.*

The BrainBand, of which ten prototypes have been created, is the culmination of a Samsung Mixed Talents initiative in which two people from different fields come together to create a working prototype — in this case, to monitor concussions in real time.*

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To create the BrainBand, industrial designer Braden Wilson and neuroscientist Alan Pearce joined forces to work on a practical solution to concussion in sport. Wilson has a background in wearable tech**logy, while Pearce is experienced in the neurophysiology of sports-related concussion. Read more...


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