Blueprint Health

After an exciting morning at the 3D Printing Conference, I headed to SoHo in an UberX car for lunch at Blueprint Health’s 5th  annual Demo Day. Blueprint Health leverages NYC’s thriving entrepreneurial ecosystem of entrepreneurs and mentors. After a networking lunch with more than 500, they introduced seven companies, who then each gave a 10-minute presentation about their […]

3-D Printed Brainwave Headset

Monitoring of brainwaves is not a new idea, but the technology is now moving from a clinical and research environment to a consumer hobby.  Medicalautomation.org reported that OpenBCI has developed a low-cost, programmable, open-source EEG [electroencephalography] platform that can enable anyone with a computer to have access to their brainwaves (see 3-D Printed Device Allows Users […]

Genesys XX

The 20th Annual Genesys Partners Venture Dinner — Genesys XX– Tuesday night at the Union League Club in New York included nearly 100 invited venture capitalists, investors, journalists, entrepreneurs, and industry executives. As always, Jim Kollegger — CEO of Genesys Partners and one of the pioneers of the information industry — was an elegant master […]

Facial Reconstruction with 3-D Printing

One of the e-newsletters I look forward to every week is from MedicalAutomation.org.  The site describes their mission as  filling the need for unbiased information about processes and technologies that can make healthcare more effective, efficient and equitable. Their scope is worldwide.  One of the topics that seems to be appearing more frequently in the […]

The Internet of Things

Home automation is a broad term. I would define it simply as automating things in your home. The age-old and most trivial example is the “automated” coffee pot that is programmed to turn on at a certain time, and when you arrive in the kitchen the coffee is ready. At the other end might be […]