Great Lakes NeuroTechnologies, a company using tablets and wearable sensors for Parkinson's diagnosis and therapy, will use a recent $1.5 million NIH grant to start a move toward direct-to-consumer marketability. This is the latest in a long series of NIH grants for the company since 2005 and brings the company's total grants to $14.2 million.
The system, called Kinesia HomeView, is currently...
Late last week, following a restructuring, Hewlett-Packard announced that it would no longer make devices based on the webOS platform if acquired from Palm for $1.2 billion last year. At the beginning of this week the company began a fire sale of existing webOS devices: HP's 16 GB TouchPad, for example, was on sale for $99, down from $499 when it first hit store shelves last month.
HP is sending...
