Health care professionals get help fighting bedsores – intelligent beds

I remember the discussions my wife and I had when she worked in old age homes about how dangerous bedsores actually are and how much of their work was spent making sure that the elderly didn’t get them.

Well it turns out that health care professionals like her may have a new weapon in that fight thanks to Swiss entrepreneur Michael Sauter.

Simply called the intelligent bed for now Sauter’s invention imitates the movements of a healthy person during sleep.

It does this by logging the patient’s movements as they sleep. If they’ve stayed in one position for too long, it gently moves them, via a special mattress that lies on a “joint-less but flexible slatted frame.” That frame is reportedly made from “smart materials,” the properties of which can be adjusted as needed.

via GizMag