College Student Invents Smartwatch App That Helps War Vets with PTSD
From: Wireless Design - 10/16/2015
By: Sarah Goncalves

Last September, Tyler J. Skluzacek, son of an Iraqi war veteran and Minnesota
college student, competed in HackDC, a 36-hour coding competition for
university students tasked with building mobile apps for PTSD, with help from
clinicians, veterans, and veterans’ families and friends. His winning app,
myBivy (short for "bivouac," a military term for a place to sleep), was
awarded “Best Application for Clinicians.” Now, Tyler and his team (named
“The Cure”) are building on that momentum to test and distribute the app,
which exploits the science of the sleep cycle to prevent night terrors.

Compatible with smartphones and the smartwatch, it monitors an individual’s
body as he or she sleeps, sensing the sudden physiological changes in
movement and heart rate that precede the onset of the night terror. When it
does, it shoots a small vibration into the wrist, pulling the individual from
the deep state, and in doing so, alters the course of his or her sleep.

Read the entire article and view a video (3:33) at:
http://www.wirelessdesignmag.com/blog/2015/10/college-student-invents-smartwatch-app-helps-war-vets-ptsd

Links:
HackDC
http://www.hackdc.com

myBivy
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1305386921/mybivy/description