Thesis
Internet of Human™
How do humans fit into a digital world?
The world around us is turning intelligent — AI, connected systems, and machines coordinating in real time, exchanging signal constantly and in every direction. People reach that world through screens and separate devices: occasional, deliberate, held at arm’s length. The one thing with no continuous way in is the human.
Textiles are already everywhere a human is — worn on the body, and built into the seats, beds, vehicles, and spaces around us. Textile Computing™ turns those soft surfaces into a living, two-way interface: the layer through which a person finally joins a world run by AI and intelligent systems. Not another device — what was already there.
Where it's already at work
Proven, concept to production
A few of the programs we've taken from a first idea to a working, validated system.
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AutomotiveThe connected cabin, knitted into Project Arrow
An ECG steering wheel and a 225-cell pressure-sensing seat, built into Canada's concept EV and shown publicly at CES 2023.
HealthcarePediatric cardiac monitoring, validated at SickKids
In a 20-child SickKids pilot, continuous heart rate matched reference ECG to within 3.6–3.8% NRMSE across real activity.
ProstheticsProsthesis control from a textile EMG sleeve
A washable 14-electrode knitted EMG sleeve drove a myoelectric hand — muscle signal read straight from the fabric.
The human stays in control
A person's signal is theirs. The Internet of Human™ gives people agency over their own data — health, comfort, capability — under their consent and their oversight. Technology that answers to the human, first.