Author: OurCrowd

[Global Kinetics in Digital Health] Wearable Parkinson’s system gets CE marking

Jan 9, 2017 |

A wearable system that monitors the symptoms of Parkinson’s disease has received its CE marking, indicating it’s safe to use across Europe. Global Kinetics’ Parkinson’s KinetiGraph system records body movements and other symptoms, generating data drive reports to alert patients and clinicians to potentially significant changes. The CE marking denotes the product has gone through an accreditation process ensuring certain European standards of safety, health and environment protection. Read more on Digital Health...

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[Consumer Physics in Mashable] This phone has a built-in tricorder. Really.

Jan 8, 2017 |

The smartphone is often called the real-world version of the handheld communicators from the original Star Trek, a nod to how prescient the TV series was about personal technology. Well, another Star Trek gadget is on the verge of becoming common. The tricorder — the device that Spock and Dr. McCoy would use to analyze all kinds of objects and materials on the show — is becoming a real thing. And it’s coming to smartphones. Read more on Mashable...

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[VocalZoom in The Times of Israel] Israel’s VocalZoom, Honda show voice-control tech at CES

Jan 8, 2017 | ,

Israeli startup VocalZoom has developed a sensor that it says allows “near perfect” voice control performance, even when there is a lot of background noise, like a car with an open window. “VocalZoom’s sensor can hear your voice inside your mouth, so it is not contaminated by background noises, ” VocalZoom CEO Tal Bakish in a phone interview. This is done by measuring the vibrations on the skin of the people who are talking, he said. Read more on The Times of Israel...

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[OurCrowd CEO Jon Medved on CNBC TV18] Young Turks in conversation with Jonathan Medved on his journey

Jan 7, 2017 |

A serial entrepreneur and one of Israel’s leading high-tech venture capitalist, Jonathan Medved is the founder and CEO of OurCrowd. Being part of the founding team at several successful Israeli start-ups and as a venture capitalist and angel investor, over the last past two decades, Jonathan has invested in almost 200 start-up companies helping to bring 20 of them to values in excess of USD 100 million. Young Turks talks to Jonathan Medved about his journey here and the way forward. Watch the video on CNBC...

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[BriefCam in Wired] BriefCam’s algorithms can spot murderers and monitor bees

Jan 7, 2017 | ,

Briefcam has helped police find mass murderer Anders Breivik, spot the Boston marathon bombers and make sense of the Brussels attacks. How? By distilling hours of CCTV footage into minute-long clips. “We call it video-synopsis,” explains Dror Irani, Briefcam’s CEO. “We extract the motion over a stationary background, store it in a database and show it over a short time.” Read more on Wired...

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