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 the world’s first and only non-surgical and removable hearing solution that imperceptibly transmits sound via the teeth to help people who are essentially deaf in one ear to rejoin the conversation of life.

The Story: A nearly invisible digital audio device called SoundBite™ relies on a well-established principle called bone conduction to deliver clear, high quality sound, and is intended to restore normal hearing functions to people with either single sided deafness, conductive, or mixed hearing loss. The SoundBite system consists of an easy to insert …

Why it’s Breakthrough: It’s a small-device battery charger that generates power simply by pulling on a cord. The next thing you know, you’re environmentally recharging your device comparable to an AC outlet.

The Story: You’ve heard of “Plug-and-Play.” This is what you do when that device needs energy before you plug-and-play. It’s called “Pull, Charge and Play.” Las Vegas-based manufacturer Easy Energy and Williamsburg, VA distributor and marketing firm Fame LLC have unveiled the YoGen Handheld charger for portable electronics.
A 100 percent green, fully-sustainable product that can create sufficient levels of charge to …

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 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 company that uses its patented material science technology to turn post-consumer recycled rubber and plastics into a new green building material: composite masonry.

The Story: It all begins with recycled car tires and plastic containers. And it becomes beautiful flooring. Along the way, the process by which this masonry is created emits minimal greenhouse gases, does not generate volatile organic compounds, yields zero scrap, and creates products that are 100 percent recyclable. The product is called VAST, and it’s achieved its breakthrough by being the world’s first …

Why it’s Breakthrough: It’s a study that’s being done to create robots with better communications enhanced software to enable the elderly to better communicate with these machines via words, gestures or touch to vastly enhance quality of life.

The Story:  Elderly people with limited mobility may soon come to be served by robots in a manner as if they are being served by other persons, thanks to a collaborative study by three University of Illinois at Chicago engineers and a Rush University nursing specialist.

“We want to help elderly people communicate …

Why it’s Breakthrough: It’s a very small, incredibly efficient video display using electronic ink made for advertisers that derives all its power from either commercial grade indoor lighting, or the sun itself.

The Story: Introducing a new power application using solar cells that produce all the necessary power needed to sell messaging on small, portable displays. After many years of in depth study and research at the NeoLux laboratory in South Korea, the small, solar-powered and portable advertising display is here.
Combining this solar cell with the NeoLux proprietary Ink-In-Motion display, this display …

Why it’s Breakthrough: It’s a 12 megapixel compact digital camera that projects your images so everyone doesn’t have to gather ’round a teeny screen to see a keeper.

The Story: Breakthrough Technology can come at you from a lot of different angles. Like the one that puts together two things that, now that they’re together, seem like this is something that should’ve been done a while ago. Well, now it’s here. Nikon has unveiled the world’s first compact digital camera that also boasts a built-in projector. The COOLPIX S1000pj is …

Why it’s Breakthrough: It gives anyone the ability to easily get to all of their important documents and records 24/7 through the web – which means it can be accessed from anywhere in the world. There are built in storage and sharing tools to help you manage your life digitally. From medical records to birth certificates to insurance documents to family photos, no one needs to worry that during an emergency or natural disaster, they cannot get critical information, or that something will be destroyed and lost forever.
The Story: Delphi Digital’s …