 So, so what is what is this one? So this is the smart step. It's an in-soul-based physical activity monitor So you just put it in your in your shoe in the morning And then you go about your day and it keeps track of your steps and all the calories that you burn So there's a battery here Yes, that's a battery and what kind of electronics semi-conductors and then some pressure sensors An accelerometer helps to figure out. Are you running? Are you walking? Are you cycling? This part is flexible here? Yes, it's very flexible. All right. How long is battery life? How long is battery life? Several days. Several days. It depends on what centers they're on All right, so what is Bitware Labs? Bitware Labs? It's a spin-off from the University of Alabama and originates from the academic research in my lab. My name is Edward Caisenov. I'm a professor at the University of Alabama And these are two projects which originated in my lab One is a food intake monitor another one is a physical activity monitor So it's acubite and smart step, right? Yeah, that's correct. So these are the the first two? You do already do a lot of stuff? We do a lot of stuff. I have other projects Where we I mean I typically work on kind of medical devices for monitoring of human condition For example food intake sensor research originated from the interest of the medical community in Montana when somebody's eating and how much This is how it looks like, right? Yeah, this is a prototype that we have right now And how long is battery life in this better life in this one today's No, no this this one is actually in this incarnation. I believe it's about one day Should should you also have some kind of sensor inside the mouth somehow to kind of combine or that's not gonna be Well, how would be the best way to actually really monitor how much calories gets absorbed? Maybe image recognition that's a very challenging question even image recognition alone will not help you Just because imagine you have a salad right and then on the salad you can have a fat-free dressing or Normal dressing and the caloric contents of the salad will be quite quite different So it's it's a very challenging problem which has not been resolved today But this is part of it. This is part of the solution, right? This is part of the solution We can tell automatically when people are eating we can characterize how much they eating and we can actually monitor eating habits like There is a difference, you know In the time and the number of choose and the number of swallows that you take if you eat in like 200 grams of food to eat in two kilograms those are the extremes that we actually observed in our studies so and No, is this part of the the solution here? That's the part of the demonstration Measuring here. And so what's next you're talking about getting to what's next? Yeah We want to modify this prototype and make it consumer-friendly so that people Can practically use it? You know humans are not very good at figuring out how much they eat I mean there has been numerous research literature on this and I think the basic principle is as long as you see food Do you keep eating it? Yeah, you eat everything that's in the plate. Exactly. That's evolutionary You should understand that centuries of evolution developed this habit because you know There could be no food tomorrow, so you're better in everything you have today Yeah, but the times have changed so now this device is actually necessary to to help people Nice, did you have a lot of other ideas? What kind of stuff you have you're gonna do at the at the bit world labs? Yeah, we have plenty of ideas a lot of different projects medical application so for the smart step we're using it in Folks with a stroke stroke rehabilitation It actually we conducted a study with kids with cerebral palsy also trying to use in rehabilitation I have projects where we're trying to develop devices to help people cure smoking and And so on so on nice Fixing these issues in society instead of just People sit back and they don't do anything about it All right. Yeah, and that's that's the idea trying to help with the problems So what do you think about the Alitex about the show? Oh, it's excellent I mean there are so many amazing products. I've been visiting the booth and The quality is just over the top cool