navigation app

By  Dave Muoio 11:16 am February 28, 2019
Rightway Healthcare, a provider of patient-facing care navigation tools for employee populations, has raised $8 million in Series A financing. Support came from unnamed backers new and old, with individual investor Jonathan Locker joining the company’s board. What they do Founded in 2017, Rightway Health develops a smartphone and web service that helps employees understand and utilize the health...
By  Jonah Comstock 08:56 am October 27, 2015
IBM Research and Carnegie Mellon University are working on a smartphone app that would help blind and visually impaired people navigate their surroundings, by communicating information about the users surroundings to them via audio cues or vibrations. The app, called NavCog, will initially be specific to the Carnegie Mellon campus, as it will rely on Bluetooth beacons placed around walkways and...