KnitRegen Ltd.
KnitRegen Ltd. is a wearable MedTech company developing patent-pending textile components for neurological recovery. Our components target neural pathways that directly influence muscle performance via a small but life changing component that can be easily stitched within a textile, within pre or post production processes.
Borne out of PhD research, the venture holds innovative textile technology and material science expertise, alongside cutting edge neuroscience.
Importantly, our work is underpinned by people-centred design to critically understand social and cultural influences on compliance with wearable technology.
- Listing ID: 2057
- Contact: Laura J Salisbury
- What are your aspirations and plans for the future?: Our vision is to improve quality of life by creating more thoughtful, accessible means of long-term treatments to enhance recovery alongside daily life. By rethinking the fundamentals of how remote healthcare may be ingrained within fashion for everyday wear, we align the delivery of treatment with key behavioural traits of stakeholders. We have been working with stakeholders over the past 2.5 years to develop the technology. We are developing our first range of garments, with future ambitions to expand this through brand partnerships, embedding our technology in existing clothing. For us, it is important to generate value beyond what the treatment offers and so, practically speaking, this requires us to establish working partnerships and connect with fashion, textile, technology expertise.
- What types of projects are you interested in working on through Future Fashion Factory?: At present, we have been making progress on an MVP/ proof of concept for one element of our technology. However, there is much work to do and so I hope that FFF can help us to meet our further milestones. It is envisaged that this will require a two-fold approach: deeper exploration of our components, including how data generated from the sensor component informs the treatment delivered to overcome some of the key challenges we have identified and investigating how this data can be extracted from our components to display recovery status (i.e. linking the garment to external devices in a manner that is user-friendly, attractive, whilst being critically mindful of privacy); and working closely with textile labs/factories and our stakeholders to explore a hypothesis we have for integrating the component into the garment without compromising on garment style and device functionality. This includes: body scanning participants in an accessible manner to develop a size chart to inform the fit of the garment; generating key samples that we can conduct further tests with (e.g. ‘wear and tear’ over time, comfort, acceptance and desirability of the garment); being forward thinking to consider scalability to inform our development process.