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HealthSpot raises $8M for telemedicine kiosk business

HealthSpot, a Dublin, Ohio-based company building telemedicine kiosks for workplace and retail locations, has raised $8 million from undisclosed investors, bringing the current raise, which began in March 2013, to $18 million total.

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OMsignal unveils ‘biometric smartwear’ T-shirts for fitness geeks, quantified selfers, and you

Smart wearables are here, and they’re huge. But most of them just hang on your wrist and count your steps. That’s about to change, as your clothing gets smart — and starts talking.

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Segterra raises $2.5M for direct-to-consumer, blood analysis platform InsideTracker

Cambridge, Massachusetts-based Segterra, developer of the InsideTracker platform, has raised $2.5 million in funding led by strategic investor Henry Kauftheil, who is chairman of real estate investment firm ACG Equities and CSO and co-founder of stealthy consumer health startup SelfHealth.me.

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Brain Implants Could Give People Perfect Memories And Night Vision

Soon, they could give people super senses and radically improved memory and focus. Brain implants, also called neuroprosthetics, are used to restore hearing and vision loss, but as our technology and brain knowledge improve, the applications will become almost infinite.

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Mobile health monitoring to be $8B market in 2019

The market for mobile health monitoring and diagnostics was worth $650 million in 2012, according to a new report from Transparency Market Research. The firm projects that the market will grow at a compound annual growth rate of 43.3 percent from 2013 to 2019.

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Tricorder X Prize update: Videos of the 30 team leaders

It’s been six months since the final 34 teams for the $10 million Qualcomm Tricorder X Prize were announced.

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Iagnosis raises $2.8M for consumer-facing dermatologist service

Iagnosis, parent company of virtual visit skin care company DermatologistOnCall, raised $2.8 million from undisclosed angel investors. This brings Iagnosis’ total funding to date to $8.8 million.

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Oculus suggests a massively multiplayer online experience (MMO) for one billion simultaneous users in VR

Oculus CEO Brendan Iribe suggested at the Techcrunch Disrupt event Monday May 5 that Oculus and Facebook could in the future build a massively multiplayer online experience (MMO) for one billion simultaneous users in VR, according to The Verge.

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The End of Food

In December of 2012, three young men were living in a claustrophobic apartment in San Francisco’s Tenderloin district, working on a technology startup.

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The Head Of Google X Reveals Its Anti-Technology Mission Statement

Astro Teller gave a keynote at Disrupt NY to talk about what he’s doing. He is the head of Google’s forward-looking innovation lab, Google X. The team is responsible for the self-driving cars, Project Loon, Google Glass and more. And his message was very different from what you would expect.

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