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Fitlinxx cancels D2C version of AmpStrip, will refund Indiegogo backers

By Jonah Comstock 12:42 pm October 23, 2015

Nearly a year after announcing its direct-to-consumer fitness tracker AmpStrip -- and after raising more than $500,000 on Indiegogo for it -- Fitlinxx has announced that it will not be developing AmpStrip as a fitness tracker, but rather as a medical device. The company will refund all of its nearly 4,000 backers on request. Engadget first reported the news. The news came in an update to the...

MC10, University of Rochester to test stretchable medical sensors, develop predictive health analytics

By Brian Dolan 06:00 am May 28, 2015

The University of Rochester has teamed up with Cambridge, Massachusetts-based medical sensor company MC10 to test the company's BioStamp platform in clinical settings and help it develop its disease-specific algorithms for predictive health analytics. The partnership's efforts will be led by the school's Hajim School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, but various researchers at the university...