Multimedia Highlights
Gx Sweat Patch Showcase
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Gatorade's promotional video debuts at the NBA All Star weekend demonstrating the Gx Sweat Patch's performance benefits for NBA All Star Jayson Tatum
Triathlete got a sneak peak at the upcoming Gatorade Gx Sweat Patch, Powered By Epicore Biosystems.
Gatorade shared our new innovative technology in Kona, Hawaii the week of the IRONMAN World Championships. This is where triathletes compete in some of the most extreme conditions of heat and humidity, and we thought a great place for athletes to experience the sweat patch for the first time. Watch the whole video to learn more.
Gatorade's new tv campaign featuring star athletes Serena Williams, Christian Pulisic, Jayson Tatum highlights Epicore Biosystems' sweat patch technology. The devices are designed and manufactured by Epicore Biosystems and John Rogers Lab in Northwestern's McCormick School of Engineering. The brand new "You Fuel Us, We Fuel You" Gatorade commercial has surpassed 28 million views after airing on ABC for the first time on Christmas day.
Technology & Research Showcase
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Introducing a soft, epidermal microfluidic device (“sweat sticker”) designed for the simple and rapid collection and analysis of sweat. Intimate, conformal coupling with the skin supports nearly perfect efficiency in sweat collection without leakage. Real-time image analysis of chloride reagents allows for quantitative assessment of chloride concentrations using a smartphone camera, without requiring extraction of sweat or external analysis.
Read the article here or read more details in Northwestern University's engineering news
L'Oreal and Epicore Biosystems unveiled the My Skin Track pH at CES 2019 in Las Vegas, NV. The My Skin Track pH will be launched under the La Roche-Posay brand as the first wearable microfluidic sensor to readily measure personal skin pH levels and create customized product regimens to better care for skin.
Designed and manufactured by the Rogers Lab at Northwestern University, the soft, flexible bio-integrated lab is the next generation of wearable technology and has been featured in the Modern Museum of Art (MoMA) in New York. With skin-like properties, the lab captures, features, and analyzes the chemistry of sweat, with wireless connectivity. But Rogers, the Louis Simpson and Kimberly Querrey Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Biomedical Engineering and Medicine is already moving beyond sweat to integrate labs with each other, as well as implement the technology in clinical settings: with infants in the hospital, as well as inside the body on the heart and even the brain. John Rogers is a MacArthur Fellow, a Lemelson-MIT Prize winner, and leads the new Center for Bio-Integrated Electronics at Northwestern’s Simpson Querrey Institute of BioNanotechnology.
To raise awareness of kidney disease and the need for good hydration, the National Kidney Foundation partnered with the John Rogers Laboratory at Northwestern University on a #HeartYourKidneys sweat-monitoring patch that was handed out at this year's South by Southwest (SXSW) festival in Austin, TX.
The foundation reached out to Tyler Ray, a postdoctoral researcher in the lab of John Rogers, the Louis Simpson and Kimberly Querrey Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Biomedical Engineering and Neurological Surgery at the Northwestern University McCormick School of Engineering, to create the device, which measures how much sweat and sodium chloride someone has lost during a 30-minute workout. Ray was in Austin last weekend to distribute the patches to those who are interested in new medical technology.
Visit heartyourkidneys.com for more information about the SXSW event and kidney disease.
The patch can be worn just about anywhere on the body, and Dr. Whitney Bowe explains, “It analyzes your sweat to tell you about your health."
