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Wearable Health Devices to Watch: Fitguard

Article-Wearable Health Devices to Watch: Fitguard

Force Impact Technologies's Fitguard 

Force Impact Technologies is taking aim at the high-profile problem of concussions sustained while playing sports with its Fitguard, a mouthguard that measures linear and angular acceleration and processes the data through a proprietary algorhithm to assess the risk of head injury. When a hit occurs, LED in the mouthguard light up in different colors to indicate the force of impact. 
          

 [image via FORCE IMPACT TECHNOLOGIES]

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