Plenty of people play with small drone aircraft in their backyards these days. Tom Driscoll, cofounder and chief technology officer of a startup called Echodyne may be the only one whose quadcopter packs the kind of sophisticated radar used on fighter jets. “We flew it around, did some collision avoidance, and locked onto one of our engineers and followed him around my backyard,” says Driscoll.
Foundations for an energy storage plant in Ireland that could “revolutionise” the integration of renewable power into electricity supplies will be laid within weeks.
The plant will use a motor-generated flywheel to harness kinetic energy from the grid at times of over-supply. This will then be released from submerged turbines at times of supply shortfalls.
The project in Rhode, County Offaly, is expected to launch commercially in 2017, with an operating capacity of 20MW.
The promise of the fully connected smart home is arriving fast driven by a growing number of ‘smart home’ startups – companies offering services for your home ranging from home security, temperature management and lighting controls. These smart home companies are a unique combination of big data, hardware design and internet and mobile software. Many are also considered Internet of Things companies.
One way to think about the rise of smart home startups attacking different verticals is the ‘unbundling’ of one of the largest players in home consumer products, Honeywell (NYSE: HON, Mkt Cap: $81.2B). Honeywell’s established product line for the home spans from thermostats to door chimes to fans & heaters.
La “Smart Community” de ELKARBIDE pretende ser el lugar de encuentro de las personas interesadas en incentivar la respuesta comercial y la promoción empresarial ante oportunidades detectadas en el ámbito de mercado y las tecnologías “smart”.
Para avanzar en este propósito, la “Smart Community” organiza su 2ª edición de Patchworking que se desarrollará el día 14 de Abril (martes) a las 15.00h, en la Sala Ariz del edificio LKS, sito en Goiru kalea 7, en el Polo de Innovación Garaia de Mondragón.
In the age of value-based care and population health management keeping patients engaged in healthy habits, like taking their meds correctly and counting their steps, is hugely important.
Sharecare started out life as a health and wellness information site and social network created in 2010 by Jeff Arnold (the guy who founded WebMD) and television’s Dr. (Mehmet) Oz, in partnership with Harpo Studios, Sony Pictures Television and Discovery Communications.
The company is now expanding its business-to-business play — which means licensing its platform and content to large enterprises and health providers — and it’s raised a new $20 million of venture capital to do it.
Run by a veteran of drug R&D for Alzheimer’s disease, Alzheon is betting that a smart trial design and a little chemistry work could turn a failed drug for the memory-robbing disorder into a success.
The company now has its first round of financing to test that theory on a revamped version of tramiprosate, which washed out of clinical trials several years ago. Its $10 million Series A round will help it get closer to a Phase 3 trial, where so many Alzheimer’s drugs have crashed and burned in the past.
The financing was led by Ally Bridge Group, a Hong Kong-based private equity group, and other unnamed new and existing backers. In conjunction with the round, Alzheon is moving its headquarters to Framingham, MA, from Lexington.
CollegeFeed, started by Sanjeev Agrawal and Aman Khanna, helps students from universities like Stanford and Carnegie Mellon connect with entry-level jobs.
La Fundación Línea Directa ha elegido a los cinco finalistas de su proyecto de aceleración de emprendedores, que bajo el nombre “Premio Emprendedores y Seguridad Vial” busca estimular la actividad emprendedora en el ámbito de la Seguridad Vial con el objetivo de reducir los accidentes de tráfico y los fallecidos en carretera. Las cinco iniciativas finalistas, escogidas entre casi 60 candidatos, han sido las siguientes:
For some of the approximately 10 million people worldwide with traumatic brain injury (TBI), forming and holding onto new memories can be one of the hardest things they’ll do in a day. Now imagine a device implanted in the brain that can help them encode memories by means of small electric shocks.
Initial steps toward such a memory neuroprosthetic are being taken at the University of Pennsylvania, where researchers have started tests on brain surgery patients to try to locate, and influence, the processes that control memory formation.
El Ministerio francés de Economía ha anunciado la compra de un paquete del 4,73 % que eleva su participación al 19,73%.
Francia ha realizado esta operación con el objetivo de proteger sus intereses en la empresa. En un comunicado conjunto con el departamento de Finanzas, Economía señaló que, al término de la operación, el Estado adquirirá 14 millones de títulos del fabricante del rombo por un monto entre 814 millones y 1.232 millones.
Añadió que ya se ha procedido a la adquisición de 9,56 millones de títulos y precisó que la adquisición se hace "a precio limitado" y "protegido por una opción de venta a precio fijo" durante seis meses.
