Industry Consumer electronics Website www.darma.co | Products Darma Smart Cushion | |
Founded San Francisco, California, United States Founders Junhao Hu(CEO)
Vic Song | ||
Darma Inc. was founded in America in 2014 and known for making the world's fist smart cushion that monitors your posture, sitting habits, stress level, and coaches you to sit better. The company crowdfunded $225,574 from 1233 backers in its launch on Kickstarter in 2014.
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Darma Smart Cushion
Darma smart cushion distinguishes itself from its competitors by being non-wearable and non-intrusive. The product is designed mainly for office workers who need to sit for long hours and yet have no awareness of their bad sitting posture. It aims to help its customers to reduce sitting hours, correct bad posture and improve their health status. Additionally, it can also track vital signs and stress level.
Darma can monitor your posture and will remind you to sit properly accompanied by a gentle vibration and message reminder sent from their app. By recognizing your sitting habits, the App will coach you with customized stretching guides, which aims to relieve your back pain, neck and shoulder strain. The app provides daily and weekly sitting reports to help you correct your posture and better understand your sitting habits. It can also track your heart rate, breathing rate, and analyze your stress level to help you stay aware of your health status. Based on this information, the app will send you messages to remind to simply relax or take a deep breath.
Mobile Apps
The company offers both Android and iOS versions for customers to download for free.
Technology
The technology behind the company largely depends on the company's CEO Junhao Hu’s PhD research program, which is a kind of highly sensitive optical fiber sensor that can capture the micro movement caused by heart beat and respiration. This information can be transferred to your own heart beat and respiration signals by advanced algorithms. With the combination of your heart rate variability, breathing rate and sitting habits, it can accurately analyze whether you’re over stressed or not. Based on that information, it can give you instructions on how to improve your health.