Nidhi Subbaraman

Boston Medical Center is using an app to help employees sleep — and work — better

The “Prof” and Pavlov are animated characters in a digital sleep training program called Sleepio, which claims to teach its users how to sleep better. In December, it became the latest addition to the benefits package for staff at the BMC.More →

3-D Printing

This Harvard lab is making 3-D-printing ‘inks’ from metals and living cells

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If we can make matter that affects people’s lives in a material way that would be a tremendous thing to accomplish,” said professor Jennifer Lewis. More →

Robotics

iRobot’s new mop will jet around your bathroom floors

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The Bedford company’s newest product, the $200 “Braava Jet,” is a stain-busting automaton that will inch its way around around sinks and toilets, sponging off any grime or dirt in its path. Announced Tuesday, it’s the latest addition to a squad of robotic mops that includes the pricier Braava ($300) and the deep-cleaning stain scrubber, Scooba ($600).More →

Virtual Reality

At SXSW, ‘Mars 2030’ offers a virtual tour of the Red Planet

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The year is 2030. You wake up in a space camp on Mars, as part of the crew to explore the planet. You suit up, stow your gear, and drive a rover out on the red plains.More →

Medical Tech

Empatica begins shipping seizure-tracking wristband

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The Embrace, designed by Cambridge startup Empatica, looks like a lean fitness tracker with a shiny square face, but it has a few unique sensors that sets it apart from devices you’d see at the gym.More →

entrepreneurship

‘TechGen 2.0’ will help students find internships at Mass. tech companies

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Tech Geneneration “2.0”, which goes live Tuesday, allows students to set up profiles describing their education, interests, and experience; the website matches them with internship postings from local companies, which can also create accounts.More →

Medical Tech

Stepping Strong Fund to back trauma care innovation at Brigham and Women’s Hospital

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The parents of a teenager whose life was saved by doctors at Brigham and Women’s Hospital after she was badly injured by bombs at the 2013 Boston Marathon are funding a program at the Brigham that looks to technology to improve trauma care.More →

Robotics

Police in Japan used this drone to watch the Tokyo Marathon

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The “PARC” drone, made by Danvers startup CyPhy Works, streamed a live video feed of the finish line to the officers of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department on site and to anybody who tuned in on YouTube.More →

Artificial intelligence

Affectiva teams up with developers to make video games that know your feelings

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Starting Tuesday, “Nevermind” will use a standard webcam to watch the fright on players’ faces as they tackle levels, and respond based on the emotion they display. Reynolds says this will bring the game to a much larger audience because you don’t need special hardware to participate.More →

Robotics

Somerville robot maker gets funds for solar sailboat

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A Somerville startup that is building a self-driving ocean robot has secured a first round of funding to get its products on the high seas.More →

Sensors

Hykso’s punch-tracking sensors measure boxer’s performance

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Hykso’s high-tech device is tucked into the cloth strips that fighters use to wrap their hands before putting on boxing gloves. More →

Health Tech

Cogito and MGH test voice app to monitor moods

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Cogito has been developing its voice analysis software for more than a decade, and since last fall has been working with the US Department of Veterans Affairs to monitor the moods of service members, particularly those who have been in war zones, through an app on a smartphone.More →

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