If you stepped out for a glass of water during Apple’s WWDC keynote last week, you might have missed the company’s foray into home automation.
HomeKit, a framework that will let connected home gadgets speak to each other and iOS devices, barely got any stage time. But long after we’ve moved on to the umpteenth versions of OS X (maybe we’ll finally see OS XI) and iOS, last week will be remembered as the first time Apple made a significant play for the connected home.
Machinery companies come in forms as varied as the equipment they manufacture. Just as equipment prices range from thousands to millions of dollars, companies vary from large business conglomerates to highly specialized niche companies. What most have in common is that they generate substantial value from after-sales services.
Google is reportedly preparing its own health data platform, called “Google Fit,” to compete with the recently-launched health platforms from Samsung and Apple.
Forbes is reporting today that the search giant will launch the new platform at its Google I/O developers event June 25 and 26 in San Francisco.
Citing “several sources familiar with the company’s plans”, Forbes believes Google wants to build a cloud repository that can collect health data from all kinds of wearable devices — from step counters to blood glucose monitors.
Durante los días 5 y 12 de junio se ha desarrollado en el Palacio Otalora de Aretxabaleta la cuarta edición de SAIOKA, en la cual han participado un total de 20 personas procedentes de diversas empresas y organizaciones integradas en la Corporación MONDRAGON.
SAIOKA se inscribe en el marco de las estrategias necesarias para materializar un salto cualitativo en la actividad emprendedora de MONDRAGON, y su propósito radica en la detección y promoción de emprendedores en el seno de nuestras cooperativas.
A new report from Rock Health looking at the future of the biosensor wearables market shows a market in transition. The next generation of wearables is more targeted towards patient populations, particularly chronic conditions. In a Google hangout about the report, Malay Gandhi, a co-author of the report, talked about some of the qualities that are making these wearables more appealing to consumers and the b2b market and features that will give them staying power.
Israel has been coined the “Startup Nation”; the country with the highest concentration of startups in the world. Over the past 63 years, thousands of Israeli startups have given rise to innovations in fields as diverse as irrigation; GPS navigation; and cherry tomatoes.
But which are the Israeli startups that are truly changing the world?
We’ve picked 10 startups that we believe have impacted the world for the better or are in the process of changing lives forever.
When six of the ten companies on Forbes’ “Top 10 Health Tech Changing the World” are Israeli, it’s fair to say that Israel is not only the Startup Nation, but the Health Tech Nation as well. Israeli technologies overwhelmed the list not only with the variety of life-saving applications, but their ingenious and innovative way of doing so as well. Here are six startups on the list:
Los usuarios de ELKARBIDE pueden a partir de hoy participar en la selección de los proyectos ganadores de la competición KIMU BERRI AISE, un concurso cuyo objetivo es diseñar productos y servicios que hagan más fácil la vida cotidiana de las personas.
La competición, en la cual participan los alumnos de cuatro másteres de la Escuela Politécnica de Mondragon Unibertsitatea, es promovida por KIMU BERRI, iniciativa que pretende promocionar el emprendimiento en la juventud de Debagoiena.
Así, el concurso AISE constituye un proceso articulado sobre los proyectos realizados bajo la metodología Project Based Learning (PBL) de los siguientes masters:
EROSKIk ‘Nire lurreko produktuak’ izeneko tailer praktiko bat egin du, haurrek beren komunitateko nekazaritzako elikagaien jatorria ekoizleen lantokietan ezagutzeko; hala, tokiko produktuen garrantziaz jabetu dira.
