Why it’s Breakthrough: It’s a pendant medical alert device made for seniors to alert authorities when they’ve taken a fall, even if those individuals can’t alert the authorities themselves.

The Story: Royal Philips Electronics ( PHG, AEX: PHI) today introduced Lifeline with AutoAlert, an enhanced medical alert service.  This integrated solution offers an added layer of protection by combining the industry-leading Philips Lifeline medical alert service with automatic fall detection capabilities. Lifeline with AutoAlert features the only pendant-style help button that can automatically call for help if a fall is detected …

Why it’s Breakthrough: It’s a new system that works via computer that is designed to remove the guesswork from watering and growing houseplants.

The Story: How many houseplants have you killed? Most of us have either drowned our houseplants in water, or starved them from their necessary sustenance for so long, not even a breakthrough defibrillator could bring back your long-dead plants. Thankfully, an answer has grown from the fields of breakthrough technology. It’s called the Click & Grow system, and it takes the maintenance out of maintaining houseplants. Specifically, the …

Why it’s Breakthrough: It’s a do-it-yourself sleep coach made up of a four-part system that could not only change the way you sleep, but could change everything while you’re awake.

The Story: The evidence is overwhelming. Consistent quality sleep is as essential to achieving optimal health as good nutrition and daily fitness. The National Institute of Health suggests healthy adults need seven to nine hours of sleep each night in order to maintain a healthy lifestyle. Yet more than one third of Americans report they regularly sleep 6.5 hours or less. …

Why it’s Breakthrough: It’s hardware that stands between your computer and every virus and cyber attack out there in the world, protecting your data from the evil that otherwise lurks.

The Story: At a time of increasing national concern over cyber attacks on government agencies and corporations, a small privately-funded Virginia engineering research firm has created a breakthrough technology for blocking cyber attacks that experts say is foolproof.
The firm, InZero Systems of Herndon, has been successfully demonstrating its new computer-protection technology to the Pentagon and other federal agencies, as well as …

Why it’s Breakthrough: It’s a service that enables parents to supervise mobile phone activity – including ‘Sexting’ and ‘Texting While Driving’.

The Story: TASER International Inc. (Nasdaq:TASR), a market leader in technologies that protect life, unveiled a new family safety platform called PROTECTOR™.
PROTECTOR is a revolutionary toolset that gives parents the ability to supervise their children’s mobile phone usage and driving behaviors. Parents can manage the contact lists and content of their child’s mobile phone – including calls, texts, emails, photos and video, and can automatically limit phone functionality to prevent …

Why it’s Breakthrough: It’s the first 1080p peer-to-peer full high-definition online video distribution platform.

The Story: We’re at the point in the evolution of technology where this nut was surely going to get cracked. But the problem in allowing full HD content being shared from peer-to-peer was with compression technology. Dyyno cracked the code.
Now, the Dyyno platform lets webcasters with any size organization manage the entire lifecycle of their content — whether video or any other rich media — from content capture through eventual monetization, at an affordable price.
Dyyno’s rich media and management …

Why it’s Breakthrough: It’s a battery-operated camera that’s essentially hand-held X-Ray vision. It uses microwave imaging to enable the user to “see” through solid objects.

The Story: Walleye™ Technologies, creator of the Walleye Imaging System that is capable of “seeing” into and through solid objects uses invisible wavelengths, called millimeter waves, to see into and through objects and generate high-quality digital images. This breakthrough technology enables the development of imaging systems that are far smaller and lighter than today’s large stationary machines, without sacrificing image quality.
“Walleye’s imaging technology is revolutionary in …

Why it’s Breakthrough: It’s a tremendous-sounding wireless speaker that gets its music from your iPhone or computer. Now, you can have a very expensive music system in every room minus the very expensive part.

The Story: Sonos, Inc., the leading developer of wireless multi-room music systems for the home, today introduced the Sonos ZonePlayer S5, an all-in-one wireless music system that can be controlled with an iPhone, iPod® touch or any Sonos Controller. The S5 delivers crystal-clear, room-filling sound that rivals much larger, more complicated audio equipment. Plus, the S5 provides instant …

Why it’s Breakthrough: It’s a home that uses more environmentally-friendly elements that’s transported by truck and literally unfolds when it’s built. This takes the concept of the Green home and makes it Greener.

The Story: Blu Homes, Inc. announced the successful conclusion of TJX’s HomeGoods Happy Home tour. Using its proprietary folding technology, a single house was quickly built, moved and rebuilt in six locations. In just six days, it went from the docks of Newport, RI to TJX’s corporate headquarters in Framingham, Mass. to the heart of New York City.
The …

Why it’s Breakthrough: It’s a thin-film solar panel incorporated into a standard roof shingle. And, it’s not only cheaper and easier to install than standard solar panels, the material costs about 10 – 15% less than conventional panels.

The Story: The Dow Chemical Company (NYSE: DOW) unveiled its line of DOW™ POWERHOUSE™ Solar Shingle, revolutionary photovoltaic solar panels in the form of solar shingles that can be integrated into rooftops with standard asphalt shingle materials. The solar shingle systems are expected to be available in limited quantities by mid-2010 and projected …