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About
Studio 1 Labs wove pressure and vibration sensors into fabric so that an ordinary bed could monitor a patient's vital signs without anything attached to the body. It built the whole stack in-house — sensors, electronics, software and analytics — and holds worldwide patents. Edward Shim told the TechTO audience in February 2019 that the company had completed three clinical trials and raised over $1M, largely by trading technology partnerships and government grants for costs an investor would otherwise have funded. In 2020 it pivoted the same fabric into reusable medical gowns for COVID-19 PPE. Its website no longer resolves, and Shim has since co-founded Brighter Signals in Amsterdam on the same tactile-sensing thesis.
Backers
Publicly funded rather than venture backed: support came from Ontario Centres of Excellence, NSERC and the National Research Council of Canada
Quick answers
What did Studio 1 Labs build?
An intelligent bedsheet: fabric with sensors woven into it that turns any bed into a vital-signs monitor, reading respiratory rate and effort, heart rate, sleep patterns and movement without wires, cameras or body-worn devices.
Who founded it?
Edward Shim, who invented the fabric sensor and served as managing director, and Dr. Olivia Lin, its executive director.
Is Studio 1 Labs still operating?
Not established. Its website returns an error and Shim co-founded a new company, Brighter Signals, in Amsterdam in 2025. No closure has been announced.