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How to
minimise wearables development risk: Commercial perspective

By Dani van WeertDeveloping wearables, Medical wearables, Safety wearables
Developing wearables carries inherent risks: Projects often require significant investments of time and money, technology is new and unpredictable, and market potential difficult to forecast. That’s the nature of the...
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August 31, 2021
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Get inspired: Our customers share how they use the ScienceSuit’s
haptic feedback

By Dani van WeertDeveloping wearables, Haptic feedback, ScienceSuit
The Elitac Wearables ScienceSuit is a set of hardware, software & textile components that lets researchers and product developers test haptic feedback applications quickly and cost-efficiently. It has been used...
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July 16, 2021
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VNO-NCW President Ingrid Thijssen visits Elitac Wearables

By Dani van WeertNews
Ingrid Thijssen, President of VNO-NCW, visited innovative, young companies Elitac Wearables and Aurea Imaging in Utrecht on Friday 19 June. On the agenda: A tour of the Elitac Wearables Lab...
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June 22, 2021
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How to develop medical wearables with haptic technology: 3 experts share their knowledge in Elitac Wearables webinar

By Dani van WeertBalanceBelt, Haptic feedback, Medical wearables, Webinars
Elitac Wearables recently hosted a successful webinar about realising the potential of haptic feedback for the booming medical wearables market. Speakers included Prof. Van Erp, the leading authority on haptic...
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June 8, 2021
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NEW VIDEO: How we develop wearables in the Elitac Wearables Lab

By Dani van WeertHaptic feedback, Medical wearables, News, Safety wearables, ScienceSuit
We opened our state-of-the-art Wearables Lab at the beginning of 2020, but have been able to receive only a few partners and clients here due to COVID-19. We are therefore...
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May 18, 2021
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Elitac Wearables hosts webinar: Realising the benefits of haptic technology for medical wearables

By Dani van WeertHaptic feedback, Medical wearables, News, Webinars
Elitac Wearables is hosting a free Zoom webinar on 27 May, 4.00-5.15 pm CEST, exploring the extraordinary potential that haptic feedback may offer for wearable medical devices. Register now Merijn...
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May 17, 2021
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7 lessons from the fashion industry for medical wearables design

By Dani van WeertDeveloping wearables, Medical wearables
Wearables and Soft Goods Designer Marloes Peters joined us in late 2020. With her background in designer clothing and accessories, she has brought a fresh perspective to our wearable designs....
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May 4, 2021
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The Elitac Group launches Elitac BalanceBelt B.V. for worldwide commercialisation of the BalanceBelt

By Dani van WeertBalanceBelt, Haptic feedback, Medical wearables, News, Project news
Severe balance disorders have a devastating impact on quality of life and are a common medical problem: The disorder Bilateral Vestibular Loss alone affects over 6 million people worldwide. We...
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April 19, 2021
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2 Mission Navigation Belt demo kits with a haptic feedback belt on top of one of them.

Mission Navigation Belt demo kits ready to showcase haptic feedback navigation around the world

By Dani van WeertHaptic feedback, Mission Navigation Belt, Project news, Safety wearables
We’ve just delivered a series of Mission Navigation Belt (MNB) demo kits to our MNB commercialisation partner Teijin Smart Safety. The MNB is a lightweight belt that allows soldiers to...
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April 16, 2021
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A visualisation of a visually impaired user wearing a haptic feedback wearable. In it, he receives a notification through vibrations in his belt about an obstacle blocking his way.

New project: 3DNav, a navigation wearable for the visually impaired

By Dani van WeertHaptic feedback, Medical wearables, Project news, Research project news
Elitac Wearables is happy to announce a new development project in partnership with software experts Brthrs Agency: A haptic feedback wearable and application to help visually impaired people move around...
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March 31, 2021
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Webinar: The art & science of developing successful wearables

By Dani van WeertNews, Webinars
Are you developing a wearable? You can now watch our Creative Director Guus de Hoog's webinar for WT | Wearable Technologies for free. In this webinar, he discusses: What it...
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March 26, 2021
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Eurostars-funded Gaitkeeper project kicked off

By Dani van WeertProject news, Research project news
We recently kicked off the EU-funded GaitKeeper project. We’re very happy to be part of the expert consortium that includes motion analysis pioneer Gait Up and leading research institute Holst...
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February 26, 2021
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Whitepaper:
Haptic interpolation for wearables designers

By Dani van WeertWearables whitepapers

Elitac Wearables has published a new whitepaper on haptic interpolation: This concept…

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January 5, 2021
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Happy holidays and all the best for 2021

By Dani van WeertNews

2020 has been an eventful year, in more ways than one. Despite…

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December 21, 2020
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BalanceBelt user experience:
Mr van Tijen

By Dani van WeertBalanceBelt, Haptic feedback, Medical wearables, News

Liever in het Nederlands lezen? | This interview is also available in…

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December 17, 2020
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A new, ‘softer’ look for Elitac Wearables

By Dani van WeertNews
Elitac Wearables has launched a new brand identity to reflect the company’s expanded focus from pure technology to the integration of electronics and textiles, and from ‘ones and zeroes’ to...
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December 8, 2020
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BalanceBelt user experience:
Mrs Zeegers

By Dani van WeertBalanceBelt, Haptic feedback, Medical wearables

Liever in het Nederlands lezen? | This interview is also available in…

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November 12, 2020
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Young man standing in a wearables lab. He is surrounded by wearables and holding a haptic feedback belt.

Elitac Wearables CEO wins Young Management Entrepreneur of the Year award

By Dani van WeertNews
Merijn Klarenbeek, CEO and co-founder of Elitac Wearables, was elected winner of the annual 'Jong Management VNO-NCW' (Young Management) Entrepreneur of the Year competition after impressing the jury during the...
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October 15, 2020
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5 questions for… Prof. Kingma, the man behind the BalanceBelt

By Dani van WeertBalanceBelt, Developing wearables, Haptic feedback, Medical wearables

Originally a biophysicist, Prof. Kingma has been studying and treating balance disorders…

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October 1, 2020
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Elitac Wearables launches the BalanceBelt, a revolutionary wearable for people suffering from severe balance disorders

By Dani van WeertBalanceBelt, Haptic feedback, Medical wearables, News, Press releases

23 July, 2020 – Utrecht, The Netherlands – Elitac Wearables is proud…

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July 23, 2020
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Elitac Wearables delivers first Mission Navigation Belt order to Royal Netherlands Army

By Dani van WeertHaptic feedback, Mission Navigation Belt, News, Press releases, Safety wearables

The Mission Navigation Belt makes GPS-based navigation safer and more intuitive by…

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July 6, 2020
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The potential of haptic feedback during social distancing

By Dani van WeertHaptic feedback, Medical wearables, News, Uncategorized

Elitac Wearables featured in popular science TV programme How can we deal…

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May 25, 2020
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