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| Founded | January 1, 2010; 15 years ago (2010-01-01) |
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| Founder | Anupam Pathak |
| Headquarters | San Francisco, CA, US |
| Products | Liftware |
| Owner | Google (2014–2015) Alphabet Inc. (2015–present) |
| Parent | Google (2014–2015) Verily Life Sciences (2015–present) |
| Website | liftware |
Liftware is a brand name for aspoon designed to counteract thetremor associated with medical conditions such asParkinson's disease[1] oressential tremors. The company which designed the projects, Lift Labs, was founded by Anupam Pathak, aUniversity of Michigan Ph.D. student.[2]
The device works by detecting tremors with anaccelerometer then responding to them with anactuator.[3] The product first became available in December 2013.[4]
Lift Labs (which made the Liftware spoon) was acquired byGoogle in September 2014 for integration into thenlife sciences division of Google X.[5] Anupam Pathak became the technical lead for the division.[2]
Google launched its version of the spoon in November 2014, priced at $195.[6]