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Crunchwear: Hexoskin is a Bluetooth shirt that keeps track of your vitals

"There are lots of vitality trackers on the market, and more forthcoming, but the Hexoskin has the advantage of being a simple shirt and not something clunky like an armband. [...] This makes it a perfect piece of wearable technology not only for athletes but for patients suffering from heart palpitations and murmurs, and even doctors who have patients suffering from similar ailments." View full article →

Canoe.ca Techno Science: A smart shirt from Quebec, in the footsteps of Google Glass

Google Glass has become the emblem of an emerging trend in information technology: wearable technology (smart clothes and accessories). With its Hexoskin shirt, Carré Technologies of Montreal, is following in Google's footsteps, but aiming at elite sports. View full article →
December 16, 2012

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La Presse - From Rosemont to outer space

"They often have no revenue, and keep going on risk and ambition alone. But some startups manage to take off quite spectacularly. The Business Section of La Presse spent a year with Hexoskin. Their product, a high-tech shirt, which they were having difficulty positioning, has now been tested by both astronauts and professional athletes."

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July 23, 2012

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La Presse: The future of information technology is wearable

This article is in French only.

In Montreal, Hexoskin has developed a prototype of a shirt that reads your heart rate, breathing rate and movements. Its first customers are the astronauts of the Canadian Space Agency...

Called Hexoskin, this shirt could revolutionize both medical monitoring and the performance tracking of athletes and sports practitioners at every level, says Hexoskin CEO Pierre-Alexandre Fournier.
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September 01, 2011

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Les Affaires: Recording your vital signs with just a t-shirt

Pierre-Alexandre Fournier is developing telemedecine and telecardiology products that enable patients' health to be monitored and recorded remotely.
"We have a long list of people who are interested in the product, including government departments such as the Defence department and the Canadian Space Agency."
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July 01, 2011

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PBS: Smartphone sensors could revolutionize digital magazines

Hexoskin is a Montreal-based company developing health sensors that can be integrated into clothing. The sensors will interact with mobile devices to collect and analyze health information, and could have intriguing media-related uses.

"People in general are taking more responsibility for managing their own health," said Pierre-Alexandre Fournier, CEO of Hexoskin. "It's going to help preventive health [care] ... A lot of this monitoring can be done remotely now because of the Internet."

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March 09, 2011

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Mobi Health News: 2011-03 mobile health roundup

Montreal-based Hexoskin is developing wearable, wireless health sensors, but while those are not yet ready to go to market the company has created a handful of basic smartphone health apps. View full article →