Staying Curious Podcast episode 007: Billie Whitehouse, CEO of Wearable X

Are you recording your steps? Tracking data on your sleep quality? Host Aimee Heuschkel’s guest on this episode of The Staying Curious Podcast is taking us one step further with her cutting-edge, wearable technology. Billie Whitehouse, CEO and Creative Director of the Wearable X line of fashion apparel, is bringing together design and haptics to improve our quality of life through immediate, accurate bio-feedback. She is sharing the latest in product developments – most especially the company’s first direct-to-consumer product, the Nadi X. Excited to be standing at the intersection of fashion and technology, Billie highlights how her activated yoga apparel works in combination with a customizable app. It’s a forerunner to data-driven wearables that makes devices like smart watches and rings look clunky and limited by comparison. She also explains what haptics do and why they are on the brink of reshaping the human landscape in transformational (positive!) ways. Key Topics [00:00] Intro [02:30] All about what Wearable X is and how its technology works, particularly its new direct-to-consumer Nadi X line of activated yoga apparel. [04:30] Billy and her team are focused on innovation and smart technology that can live inside their product lines and serve as a smart tool for fitness and exercise. [05:04] How it all got started: Billy’s drive to start Wearable X stems from a “feverish curiosity” about the future of cutting-edge technologies that resulted in exploring severa