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Feb 16, 2020
Gatorade Gx Sweat Patch TV Commercial, 'Push the Game Forward' Featuring Jayson Tatum
Aired First on TNT
Best-in-class athletes like Jayson Tatum are always looking to push their game forward, Gatorade says, and that is where it comes in. The drink maker partnered with Epicore Biosystems to develop a first-of-its-kind wearable, the Gx Sweat Patch, which measures personalized sweat rate and composition. When athletes know what they sweat out, Gatorade says, they better know what to put back in.
Feb 12, 2020
Can Sweat Shed a Light on Disease Severity in Atopic Dermatitis?
Dermatology Times
Wearable sensors might soon provide dermatologists and patients with unprecedented real-time information about skin health. One such device in development, Epicore Biosystems’ wearable Discovery patch (Leo Pharma and Epicore Biosystems), aims to assess inflammatory biomarkers found in sweat and interstitial fluid in individuals with atopic dermatitis. The wearable technology will analyze cytokines in sweat to offer real-time objective assessment of the state of disease in adults with the chronic skin condition.
Jan 30, 2020
The Gx Sweat Hydration System is a Finalist at the 2020 SXSW Innovation Awards for Wearable Tech
SXSW
The 23rd annual SXSW Innovation Awards Presented by Sprinklr recognize the most exciting tech developments in the connected world. Innovators and creators from around the world are invited to enter their eligible projects to vie for top honors in this unique, long-running SXSW competition.
Smart Design, Epicore Biosystems, Gatorade
Gatorade’s Gx Sweat Patch and companion app are designed to bring sweat testing and personalized sports fueling and recovery recommendations to all athletes without the need for a traditional lab. This digital ecosystem combines wearable technology that captures an athlete’s sweat rate and electrolyte concentration directly from the skin with a smartphone app that processes the data using machine learning.
Jan 09, 2020
Paul George’s Nike PG 4 “Gatorade” Gives You Personalized Sports Nutrition Advice
Highsnobriety
The Nike PG 4 “Gatorade” features a GX Sweat Patch that analyzes the wearer’s sweat to provide personalized sports nutrition recommendations that will aid performance.
Nov 7, 2019
LEO Science & Tech Hub and Epicore Biosystems Announce Second Phase of Partnership Exploring Use of Wearable Skin Sensors to Improve Dermatologic Treatment Regimens
Business Wire
CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--LEO Science & Tech Hub, the Boston-based R&D innovation unit of LEO Pharma A/S, announced today the next phase of a research collaboration in atopic dermatitis (AD) with Epicore Biosystems, a wearable microfluidics and biosensor spinout from Northwestern University’s Center for Bio-Integrated Electronics.
The partnership advances the development of Epicore’s wearable Discovery patch and electrochemical sensors to measure prognostic skin health and inflammation biomarkers. The goal is to explore if and how these biochemical markers can apply to and inform treatment decisions and therapeutic targets.
Sep 24, 2019
5 Key Trends Changing New Product And Service Development
Forbes
Smart also worked with Gatorade to further its transformation from a sports beverage to a sport nutrition company and expanded their business model to include customizable hydration based on each athletes’ unique physiological needs and exercise programs. With Epicore Biosystem, they recently developed a self-diagnosing, smart sweat patch that was showcased at TED 2019. It measures an athlete’s’ sweat rate and electrolyte composition and can be scanned with image recognition on a companion smartphone app. The platform uses biometric data from the Sweat Patch to generate individual sports fueling recommendations that optimize performance based on weather, intensity and activity duration.
May 03, 2019
Previewed at TED: Microfluidics sweat analysis from Gatorade
Wareable
The old adage decrees it takes ‘blood, sweat and tears’ to be the best in your athletic field. But Epicore Biosystems reckons one of those fabled fluids is much more important than the others – and the start-up has developed a patch to capture and analyse your sweat.
It has developed wearable technology to capture sweat, analyse the unique biomarkers within it and offer custom hydration recommendations based on it. The goal is to ensure athletes are drinking enough fluids – and the right kinds of fluids – at half-time to maintain peak levels throughout the game.
Apr 26, 2019
Inside the Lab Where Gatorade Is Transforming Itself Into a Tech Company
Inc
When you think of Gatorade, you probably picture a neon orange or yellow sports drink. But the company is trying to carve out a niche for itself in another increasingly important aspect of fitness: technology.
Or, more specifically, technology that measures your sweat. Gatorade's sweat patch--which it's currently testing at its Sports Science Institute in Bradenton, Florida, and hopes to roll out to consumers next year--can be worn by athletes during practice or workouts to help them track hydration and nutrients they've lost through perspiration. Xavi Cortadellas, Gatorade's head of innovation and design, says that information will help them refuel more effectively, which, in theory, should provide them with an extra edge on the field. It's a key part of the company's plans for providing athletes with access to comprehensive information about their performance.
Apr 19, 2019
Previewed at TED: Microfluidics sweat analysis from Gatorade
TED
Imagine if, after your next workout, you could see not only how much you sweat, but what you sweat — and how to replenish what’s missing. That’s the promise of a new sweat analysis patch from Gatorade, shown in preview form at TED2019.
How it works: You place the small, flexible patch on your arm before a workout. Then the microfluidics inside the patch get to work.
Jan 25, 2019
An Underwater Skin Sensor Lets Swimmers Track Their Sweat
Wired
SPORTS TEAMS COLLECT sweat to analyze athlete performance, while companies market sweat replacement drinks and sweat-removal clothing to help keep sprinters, cyclists, and tennis players happy. But so far, swimmers have been left high and dry.
Today a team of researchers announced they have built a small, flexible, wireless sensor that sticks to a swimmer’s skin, allowing athletes to measure how much they need to drink during a workout or race. The device picks up sweat secretions from a person’s skin and channels the fluid into a chemical reagent mixed with food dye. It then turns the patch different colors corresponding to a person’s chloride levels—much like a pH strip for sweat. It also measures body temperature and sweat loss rate.
Jan 18, 2019
Your Sweat Will See You Now
New York Times
A new generation of devices instead aim to analyze sweat for many chemicals at once, producing a real-time snapshot of the wearer’s health or fitness. These devices also fit intimately against the skin, and are comfortable for anyone, from premature babies to the elderly. One version is already being advertised by Gatorade.