Wearable conference winner? A pantyhose startup with period-predicting sensors
Scobleizer · x · 2026-09-16
- At a wearable tech conference held at the Computer History Museum, the winning startup demo was a pantyhose company embedding a sensor array that tracks multiple biomarkers and predicts when a period will start.
- Author Robert Scoble argues it could sell well both for contraception awareness (he compares it to Catholic natural family planning classes) and the reverse use case: helping couples time sex to conceive.
- Bonus color: he toured a stunning Google building at John Werner's event, praising its solar tiles that track the sun, automated blinds, and landscaping — "that's what money does."
Related event: Stocking Startup with Built-in Sensors Wins Wearable Tech Demo(2 posts)→
More from Embodied
- Hacked computer-use for iPad: USB dongle bypasses iPadOS accessibility limits — alfcnz · 2026-09-16
- Apple's Reference Image hashes raw negatives in-sensor for verifiable photography — nptacek · 2026-09-16
- CAS opens ZDTaichu5.0-9B: 9B multimodal model leads spatial benchmarks by 20 points — 新智元 · 2026-09-16
- Two solid robotics courses recommended: Majumdar's and oier_mees' open resources — micoolcho · 2026-09-16
- Driverless trucks hit Ohio roads: L3 on interstates, L4 piloting at 15 mph — bennash · 2026-09-16
- Ant Lingbo CEO: robots can't even scale to corner stores yet — data pipeline is the real moat — APPSO · 2026-09-16