We spoke to Aniyia about the wearable tech market, raising seed funding, building your founding team and where Tinsel is going.

DDR didn’t teach me to work myself into oblivion, propelled by shame and chalky smoothies. DDR taught me to get some water, sit down, talk to a friend, send a text, lean on that rail. For DDR, exercise wasn’t some frantic tailspin toward some punishing end.

We have reduced the notion of health to a set of standards that tend to be binary, arbitrary, or both.

Technologies have politics and games have aesthetics, but neither of these factors are immutable; there might still be time to rewrite the purpose of the iPhone’s accelerometer and motion co-processor.

Startups need to stop working in silos, engaging doctors, health care administrators, communities and other system players.

What happens to all the data trails we leave in our digital wake? What kinds of precautions should we take with our health data? How do we bake a ‘Do No Harm’ Hippocratic ethic into health technologies? And what are the trade-offs between improving care and increasing surveillance?