You’ve heard of car airbags deploying within milliseconds to protect passengers. How about an airbag for your knee?
That’s what former basketball hopeful Kylin Shaw is working on with his startup, Hippos Exoskeleton — a “knee sleeve” that measures stress on the knee joint and inflates around the knee to protect it from major injuries like ACL and MCL tears. The sleeve inflates in 30 milliseconds, which the company says is faster than the 60 milliseconds it takes for ACL tears to occur.
“I, myself, have loved basketball since I was six years old, and for the next decade, it became my entire life,” Shaw told TechCrunch.