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Torso thermal gradient
10 temperature sensors across the garment read heat zone by zone - left against right, upper against lower. One sensor gives you a number. Ten give you a picture.
Astherion · Ex Astris
Ascendra One is a sensing garment that measures heat across your torso and how your spine actually moves - two signals a device on your wrist is not built to reach.
$449 total, $99 today. Estimated ship window Q2 2027. Fully refundable until your unit ships.
Why a garment
Not a claim that wrist devices are inaccurate - they are fine at what they can reach. The point is what they cannot reach, and that is geometry, not engineering.
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10 temperature sensors across the garment read heat zone by zone - left against right, upper against lower. One sensor gives you a number. Ten give you a picture.
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3 IMUs along the spine track how each segment is oriented and loaded through a session. Posture is a chain, and the chain fails unevenly.
Where this is
Ascendra One is in alpha. 7 hand-assembled units are with a development cohort right now, generating the data the production build is designed around. Pre-ordering puts you in the first manufactured run, not the prototype run.

The product
A sensing base layer and a small dockable computer. 11 temperature sensors, 4 IMUs, one PPG, integrated into the garment at the design stage. The DPU pops out before you wash it.
Fully refundable until your unit ships.
Aetheris
Most training AI reads the same wrist data everyone else has. Aetheris reads your thermal gradient and spinal load too, and tells you what the combination means while you are still training.
App access is invite-only while we are in TestFlight. Pre-order customers are reviewed first.
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Accelerator

San Francisco startup accelerator · Canopy cohort
Accelerator
CometX Accelerator
Hardware startup accelerator, Dallas, TX
Program

Member
Program

Member
Program

Startup grant program
Partner

Professional CAD tooling for hardware development
Network
UT Dallas Alumni Network
Engineering and entrepreneurship ecosystem
$99 reserves a unit in the first production run. Fully refundable until your unit ships.
Pre-order · $99 deposit