In summary: Australian tech start up Soldier.ly is collaborating with the UTS Neuroscience Research Unit to tackle depressionTheir award-winning uStress smart watch app will use wearers’ physiological and biometric data to monitor stress and trigger support mechanisms …….. Chris Rhyss Edwards was standing on top of a seven-storey building, thinking about jumping, when he heard his phone ping. “I was actually interrupted by an SMS from a mate asking, ‘Are you okay?’ I’m here because of that SMS,”...

Australian veteran-owned start-up Soldier.ly has taken out the Zurich Insurance inaugural Innovation World Championship for the development of a world-first smartwatch app. The world-first smartwatch stress detection app, called ID.STRESS, is designed to reduce suffering and suicide in the veteran community and has quickly attracted worldwide attention. The idea for the ID.STRESS app originated after Australian Army veteran Chris Rhyss Edwards survived a suicide attempt due to being interrupted by an SMS...