Welcome to Totum Tech!
So, who are we? Well, we are a company formed by people who have spent their lives coping with hidden disabilities. Among we co-founders, we have either Raynaud’s disease that’s causing no end of joint and mobility problems, a normal-looking sibling with severe intellectual disability, and a parent with neurodegenerative disease.
In all three cases, we’ve had to help ourselves or our loved ones by building our own home-brew solutions. It’s been years, and it’s been hard doing this on our own. That’s why we’re now deciding to pool together our know-how to build products and services both for ourselves and also others like us, struggling alone in the dark.
Why is this important? It’s because there are literally millions upon millions of people like ourselves out there. Despite that, the rest of the world doesn’t know about our problems – after all, if you can’t see a problem, you’re not going to think too deeply about whether there are problems, are you? And that’s why there are no companies or governments out there who think too deeply about solving these problems – out of sight, of mind, after all.
Well, we resolve to change that! We’re starting by trying to fix a problem that immediately challenges us – fingers stiffened from clinically-poor blood circulation stemming from Raynaud’s disease. It constantly makes work extremely challenging. To do that, we’re building the Hands-On-Warm, smart gloves that use artificial intelligence (AI) to help predict when a flare-up of Raynaud’s disease is about hit your hands with low circulation.
When the gloves “think” the flare-up is about to happen, they will automatically heat up hands to stop the poor circulation before it starts!
The gloves will be ready soon, and you can keep track of our progress in building these gloves here on this progress page. Check it out every two weeks! Better yet, sign up for updates! We aim to have the gloves ready for testing by Fall.
And that’s where the story of Totum Tech starts. By giving a helping hand to people whose hands need help. And then we’ll be building other products and other services to make visible invisible disabilities and to bring relief to those who suffer from the whole range of conditions that can’t be seen but are always felt.
Join us, won’t you?
Picture credits: Icons image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay; hands image by truthseeker08 from Pixabay; people collage image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay.
