Monthly Archives - November 2017

Aircuity to Begin Installation at Virginia Commonwealth University

Aircuity, creator of measurably better environments, announces that it will begin installation at three laboratory research buildings at the Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) School of Medicine. Aircuity is acting as the turnkey contractor for the installation of Aircuity’s intelligent building platform along with upgrades to controls and exhaust systems. The project is scheduled to begin in December 2017. Read more >>
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Telemedicine Success Often Hinges on Aligning Providers and Payers

Bettano and the health centers first secured a two-year Partnership for Community Health grant to create a teledermatology service at 22 remote sites. They also joined forces with 3Derm, a Boston-based telemedicine company spun out of Yale University in 2013, to provide the store-and-forward technology to enable remote clinics to send dermatology images to a separate site for reading and evaluation. Read more >>
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Watch as legally blind boy sees clearly for the first time

This Thanksgiving, gratitude is being served us as never before by one Sandusky family. It’s the first holiday, the first family gathering in which their 7-year-old boy will be able to look across the table and see clearly the faces of his loved ones. When we first heard about Bentley Koch and his eSight glasses, we were wowed by the technology. But then we found something even greater than the science that is transforming his life. It’s the power in people...
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Fellow Miami Dolphins fan could use our help

Bradly is seeing specialists for eSight Eyewear and is trying to get a pair of the eSight glasses. What the glasses do is simple. It take what we normally see and condenses that picture into an image that fits in the visual range of Mr. Coots. Currently that central range is an 8% field of vision. Read more >>
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Time Magazine Names eSight 3 as One of the Best Inventions of 2017

eSight, the developer of breakthrough electronic glasses that let the legally blind actually see, is proud to have been named by Time magazine as one of the "Best Inventions of 2017." Time's annual compilation seeks out world-leading and cutting-edge technologies that are making the world "better, smarter and -- in some cases -- a lot more fun." Read more >>
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Electronic glasses help blind woman see 20/20

“Oh! It's working,” Belskis said, as she turned on her brand new electronic glasses made by eSight. In Belskis' case, she can see 20/20 when they’re on. The glasses have a high-speed camera that captures everything the user is looking at. They display a video on two OLED screens in front of the user's eyes. Read more >>
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Respiratory Motion, Inc. and Corestone Biosciences (Beijing) Co., Ltd., have established a Joint Venture Company to deliver monitoring solutions to Chinese healthcare market and the globe

Respiratory Motion, Inc. (Waltham, Massachusetts, USA) the global leader in minute ventilation monitoring and Corestone Biosciences Co., Ltd., an innovative medical device company in anesthesia and analgesia headquartered in Beijing, China have entered into an agreement to form a Joint Venture Company (JV). The JV will offer a new generation of Respiratory Volume Monitors based on Respiratory Motion's ExSpiron platform, along with other novel critical care solutions for hospital and home markets. The JV will operate out of Zhengzhou in...
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Polaroid. The long, slow demise of a tech giant.

Boston Harbor Angel members, Ziad Moukheiber and David Powsner, are the hosts of Failure – the Podcast, a podcast about about business failures, focusing on startups and emerging companies. In episode two,  Moukheiber, Powsner, and Mark Thirman chat with Sam Liggero, a former Polaroid executive and, now, a professor at Tufts University. Tune in >>
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