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Touchtech Mouth Guard

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TouchTech Mouth Guard

At one time I worked with a few American athlete entrepreneurs that produced a smart mouth guard for football players. It looks and feels very much like a traditional mouth guard. However, the mouth guard is an example of a TouchTech product in that combines the traditional analog look with digital capacity to 1) sense the level of impact a player sustains in play and 2) alert others if the individual has experienced a dangerous level of impact by lighting up.

Through the combination of analog and digital qualities, this smart mouth guard offers players the safety and comfort of a traditional mouth guard along with recordings of game impacts and the insight into the level of danger a player faces in a game. While a mouth guard alone is helpful in protecting players, it doesn’t offer the same wealth of knowledge and in-play information to protect the player. In this way the product offers a unique synergy that minimizes the limits of a traditional mouth guard.

The smart mouth guard has a singular focus in that both mechanisms are in place for the safety of the individual using the mouth guard. Other means of measuring the impact to the body are less proactive and are typically only initiated if a player exhibits symptoms of head trauma. The smart mouth guard provides a tangible, haptic way to measure impact while the player is in action.

Because the smart mouth guard uses the synergy of both the analog and digital components, the product competes with traditional mouth guards and often times leaves medical scans for head trauma unnecessary. If a player’s mouth piece lights up indicating they’ve suffered an extreme impact, the player is pulled off the field. There’s little to no question about whether the player is well enough to resume playing because the risk is too high and it’s obvious for everyone to see they’ve suffered an extreme impact.

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