Wearable health tech startup Pristine has raised a fresh $5.4 million in funding, the company told VentureBeat today.
Pristine has developed a Google Glass app that allows medical professionals to get remote help from experts via a live streaming video feed. For example, Pristine’s Glass app could be used to help nurse practitioners walk through an emergency advanced surgical procedure with live oversight from an expert halfway around the world.
One of the ripest markets for Google Glass and Glass-based apps may be healthcare. While patient care has become increasingly data-driven, doctors need a way to receive the data while remaining hands-on with patients.
Can wearables in the OR improve clinical outcomes? Although it makes sense, there’s little empirical evidence for or against wearables. But a new study may help answer that question.
Google X, the research division of tech giant Google, has just announced that it has acquired Lift Labs, a company working on devices for people suffering from neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson’s and essential tremor. The company is best known for its “tremor-canceling spoon.”
Besides projecting directions and e-mails in front of your face, Google Glass can also measure biological signs like heart and breathing rates, according to new research. The work suggests a new way for wearable devices to track a person’s stress level and provide instant fitness feedback.
While Google Glass has generated a healthy debate over privacy, etiquette and whether the device will ever gain broader acceptance in society, there are some obvious specialty use cases for Glass.
Remedy, a startup founded by two sisters who are a Thiel fellow and medical student, is betting that doctors will find Google Glass useful in quickly collecting and piecing together case data on patients.
If anybody needs to get constant, real-time information in a Google Glass-like wearable, it’s doctors and other healthcare workers.
Healthcare is one of the two major markets being addressed by San Francisco-based Wearable Intelligence, which makes software for wearable data presentation used by people in the healthcare and the energy industries.
The company is now raising a $8.4 million in venture capital, according to a filing today with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Wearable Intelligence has raised $7.9 million of the target amount and has been building the round since August 6, 2014.
Purchasing a Tesla or a Chevy Volt can have its advantages, but what if you could turn your current car into an electric one and get all the benefits just by purchasing an add-on?
Unfortunately that’s not possible yet, but what is possible is to get a head-up display system without having to buy an entirely new and pricey car, thanks to a new company called Navdy.
Navdy, which is opening up pre-orders today for its product, has created a head-up display that can be set up in virtually any current car model on the market.
One of the most exciting Google projects this year has been Project Ara, which is working on building modular smartphones.
Although the phones aren’t out yet, Project Ara has now opened up applications for developers wishing to get developer boards to start building modules. Scroll down for the various application review periods.
Google and Swiss pharmaceutical company Novartis announced this morning that they will be collaborating on bringing Google’s smart contact lens technology, which contains sensors for tracking things like blood glucose levels for diabetics, to consumers.
Google announced the smart lens project back in January, but at the time it was clear the company would need some sort of partner to make it a reality. The project came out of Google X, the skunkworks shop that also developed Google Glass and the company’s self-driving car initiative.
Google has acquired music streaming service Songza after weeks of speculation around a potential buyout.
Songza uses information about the user and context to determine the best playlists for you at any given time, all of which are curated by music experts (DJs, Rolling Stone writers, etc.).
