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Motion sensing against bad habits

May 20, 2016

Liv by HabitAware is the world’s first smart subconscious-behavior tracker and awareness trainer. It helps with the second step by creating awareness of Body Focused Repetitive Behaviors (BFRBs) like hair pulling, nail biting, thumb-sucking or skin-picking. Liv uses sophisticated sensors to record the behavior patterns of the user.

Buzzing bracelet is out to stop your nasty habits

May 20, 2016

If you know someone with a compulsive behavior such as nail-biting or thumb-sucking, you may find yourself constantly telling them, “Hey, you’re doing it again.” The problem is, you can’t be watching/stopping them all the time. That’s why HabitAware’s Liv was created.

Slimme armband helpet je stoppen met najelbijeten

May 20, 2016

A Wearable That Stops Nail Biting, Hair Pulling, and Other Habits

May 19, 2016

The Liv Smart Bracelet is one of the first truly second-generation wearables that I’ve seen. Unveiled this week in San Francisco at the HAX hardware accelerator’s biannual demo day, Liv, from HabitAware, is designed to break bad habits by interrupting the wearer with a vibration in the midst of doing whatever it is he or...

Bad Habits Be Gone – This Smart Device Wants To Help You Kick ‘Em to the Curb

May 18, 2016

Most of us have some bad habit we wish we could break, and there may finally be a smart device that can help us finally kick it. The company HabitAware has created Liv, a smart bracelet that looks a whole lot like your average fitness tracker but whose main function is to tell you when …

Three startups to watch from HAX hardware accelerator, batch VIII

May 18, 2016

The HAX hardware accelerator held its 8th Demo Day in San Francisco yesterday. While all 15 companies in the latest batch hold promise, and encompass some very wild ambitions, these three stood out thanks to creative applications of advanced tech to sometimes overlooked, but truly massive potential markets.

妻子的“坏习惯”该怎么改？用LIV手环调教吧

May 18, 2016

创始人是一对夫妻，CEO Sameer Kumar和负责市场设计的Aneela Kumar。相识六年后，他们幸福地走进了婚姻殿堂。然而在结婚三年后，Sameer才发现妻子的一个秘密：过去的20年，Aneela几乎每天都会拔自己的眉毛和睫毛，这个区域几乎没有长出过完整的毛发。

Meet the 8th class of hardware startups from HAX

May 18, 2016

Best known for bringing companies in its portfolio to Shenzhen, China for about 15 weeks to get to know everything they can about manufacturing there, Hax is funded by SOS Ventures. HAX invests $25,000 to $100,000 for a 6-9 percent stake in companies that it admits to its program.

Trichs-n-Picks: An Advice Column for People with BFRBs

May 18, 2016

At this past conference, a few of our members got to try out Liv, a smart bracelet to help you become conscious of your unconscious behaviors (like BFRBs). The creator herself is actually a trichster, and using Liv has allowed her eyebrows to grow in fully.

HabitAware introduces Liv, Smart Bracelet that Manages Compulsive Subconscious Behaviors

May 17, 2016

Today HabitAware launched a pre-order campaign for its flagship product – a smart bracelet called Liv, that is aimed at managing Body Focused Repetitive Behaviors (BFRBs) like hair pulling disorder (trichotillomania), nail biting (onychophagia), skin picking (excoriation disorder, previously dermatillomania), and thumb-sucking.

HabitAware’s Liv smart bracelet helps you manage compulsive behavior

May 17, 2016

There’s a lot of compulsive behaviors that people would stop doing if they were only conscious of them. That’s the thinking behind the Liv smart bracelet, a product from a Midwestern startup called HabitAware.

HabitAware’s Liv smart bracelet helps you manage compulsive behavior

May 17, 2016

Liv sends a gentle buzz that you can feel on your wrist as a reminder that you may be doing something that is dubbed Body Focused Repetitive Behaviors, or BFRBs. Liv offers its alerts in real time, as you are doing something compulsive. It is designed to keep you alert to the position of your …