Subscription-based “box of the month” services have been fairly hit-or-miss so far. While some like Birchbox are still going strong, elsewhere, smaller startups – and even experiments from the world’s largest retailer, Walmart – have faded away. But a new company called Nootrobox is giving the subscription biz a shot anyway by targeting those interested in nutritional supplements – specifically brain nutrients and “smart drugs” also called nootropics.
There’s more than one way to get energy out of natural gas. For decades, one of the most promising methods – and also most difficult to pull off ‑ has been the fuel cell.
A fuel cell works like a battery, using a simple chemical reaction to provide energy. In fuel cells, this reaction involves hydrogen molecules abundant in natural gas and oxygen from ordinary air.
It sounds easy enough, but the process is full of pitfalls. Car companies, for example, have tried to make fuel cells work as a replacement for the internal combustion engine for more 20 years without commercial success.
Silicon Valley tech startup Sviral has raised an estimated $20 million in an unusual transaction aimed at boosting its solution for creating distributed data centers.
Sviral takes unused computing power from household devices and uses it to build a power-efficient, distributed data center.
El BOPV publica hoy un conjunto de convocatorias de ayudas desatinadas a promover inversiones de ahorro y efiencia energética. Los nexos adjuntos permiten acceder a las citadas ayudas.
While big companies are working hard to impose standards on the burgeoning Internet of things (IoT), little Octoblu is willing to be the translator between whatever protocols to connect every thing with every other thing.
Octoblu came out of stealth mode today with a focus on the industrial side of the IoT. Its core product is the Meshblu platform that, according to a statement, “can be used for the discovery, control and management of any API [application performance interface]-based software application, any hardware or appliance, or social media network.”
The waiting room is a boring place. You wait for the doctor, and you fill out forms. And you usually forget all of the information you give or receive while you’re there.
Epion Health sells a patient engagement platform (as a software as a service) that replaces clipboards with iPads and can send patient information into the electronic health record. This is more fun for the patient and improves record accuracy and compliance. Patients can even take care of their payment using the iPad.
Epion has its believers. The company has taken a $4.5 million funding round, its first, from Deerfield Management Company, a New York City based investment firm.
Txostenak 2013ko datu esanguratsuenak jasotzen ditu eta horretaz gain, 2014 eta 2015erako aurreikusten diren hainbat aspektu aztertzen ditu. Etorkizun ekonomikoari buruz, aipatzen da ziurgabetasuna dela ezaugarri nagusiena.
2013ko txostena ikusita, hauek dira aspektu nabarmenenak:
- 2013an, EAEko BPGd-ak -% 1,2 egin zuen behera; estatu osoan izandako atzeraldiaren parekoa, eta Nafarroako Foru Erkidegoan izandako -% 1,3aren antzekoa. Irakurketa positiboagoa ere egin dezakegu, ordea, 2013ko erdialdean susperraldia hasi eta, horri esker, urte osoko atzerakada 2012an izandakoa baino txikiagoa izan baita azterketa honen helburu diren eremu geografikoetan.
Looking to secure its share of the estimated $30 billion US parking industry, Chicago-based ParkWhiz hauled in a $10 million second round of funding Monday.
Jump Capital led the round. Other investors include Hyde Park Venture Partners, Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian, former Nokia/Navteq CTO Amreesh Modi, former Technology Crossover Ventures Partner Henry Feinberg, and Hyde Park Angels.
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA), which regulates everything from heart monitors to horse vaccines, will soon have its hands full with consumer health apps and devices.
The vast majority of the health apps you’ll find in Apple’s or Google’s app stores are harmless, like step counters and heart beat monitors. They’re non-clinical, non-actionable, and informational or motivational in nature.
But the next wave of biometric devices and apps might go further, measuring things like real-time blood pressure, blood glucose, and oxygen levels.
Des chercheurs de l'Université de Deakin, dans le Victoria en Australie, ont trouvé un moyen de séparer les mélanges de textile composés de coton et de polyester, offrant ainsi une avancée majeure pour l'industrie textile dans l'épineux problème du recyclage de leurs déchets. Le procédé a fait l'objet, le 19 juin 2014, d'une publication dans la revue Advances RSC.
