The Boston Business Journal reports that wearable tech company MC10 is beating the bushes for a $40M funding round. A Form D the company filed last week with the Securities and Exchange Commission declined to state revenues but confirmed the equity offering. The new round would put total investment in the company at $100M, with an estimated valuation of $300M, the paper … [Read more...]
Hollywood Reporter on Wearables: Novelty Isn’t Enough
We don't usually look to the Hollywood Reporter for our technology news, but we just saw a smartly reported story about a wearables panel last week at CES. There were three speakers: from Artefact, MC10, and Phone Halo. Jennifer Darmour, design director of the Artefact Group said this, which is correct: “There is a huge unexplored wealth in creating these new products but … [Read more...]
Reebok Checklight: Best Ideas of 2013 — Part 3
Football is a violent sport. It took the intervention of President Teddy Roosevelt to keep it from being banned in the early 20th century, and the medical evidence about the damage it does to athletes's brains continues to pile up. Concussions aren't limited to football, of course: hockey leagues are being careful about them, and it's been a problem even the limited-contact … [Read more...]
Reebok Skullcap wins CES Innovations Award
Just the other day, we wrote about the Reebok Checklight head impact monitor, powered by technology from MC10. Yesterday. the Checklight was awarded a 2014 CES Innovations Design and Engineering Award. Those awards are kind of a big deal. Some of them are sometimes headscratchers from a commercial point of view, but they always reflect innovative product thinking and good … [Read more...]
Infographic: State of Medical Wearables
If you think that wearables are a fad or something that only freaks and geeks could want, check this out: an awesome infographic from mHealthNews that deftly illustrates that it's not only freaks and geeks who are using this stuff, but docs and nurses, too. … [Read more...]