Gaugewear licenses wearable sensor technology from CU-Boulder

BOULDER — The University of Colorado Boulder announced this week that local startup gaugewear Inc. has licensed new sensor technology from the school that can be embedded in clothing for the control of electronic devices and other wearable technology.

The technology was developed by a pair of doctoral students — Dana Hughes and Halley Profita — working in the lab of CU-Boulder computer science professor Nikolaus Correll.

Gaugewear, founded six months ago by technology entrepreneur Jeff Wallingford, is so far targeting a pair of uses for the technology that right now are in the prototype…