Physical Sciences News

Rise of the Rest Philly: Pitch Finalists Announced

September 23, 2015

Two are Ben Franklin companies. Two are Project Liberty companies. All are innovators. We are stoked! Here’s the full list for the full Pitch Competition on Tuesday, September 29: SmartPlate – A plate that instantly analyzes everything you eat (Ben Franklin, Project Liberty) Life.io – Solution that motivates and rewards users for tracking and improving […]

VOXX Electronics Signs Letter Of Intent with S4 Worldwide

September 22, 2015

VOXX Electronics Corporation (VEC), a wholly-owned subsidiary of VOXX International Corporation (NASDAQ: VOXX), today announced the Company has signed a Letter of Intent with S4 Worldwide, LLC for exclusive rights to manufacture and distribute the SENTRY BodyCam, a real-time HD/IR streaming wearable body camera designed for military, police and law enforcement officials. S4 Worldwide (S4W) […]

Montco Commissioners Seek to Expand Zagster Bike Sharing Program

September 11, 2015

Finding that county residents have been using the county’s bike sharing program in high numbers, the Montgomery County commissioners approved a request for proposal (RFP) on Thursday to be advertised to bike sharing companies so the commissioners can expand the program. “What we saw was that the bike share program in its pilot phase was […]

SmartCEO Names Felicite Moorman a 2015 Brava! Award Winner

July 23, 2015

BuLogics and StratIS’ CEO Felicite Moorman selected one of Philadelphia’s powerhouse business leaders as part of the Brava! Awards Program. PHILADELPHIA, PA – July 21, 2015 – BuLogics, Inc., which designs, builds, and certifies devices and ecosystems for the Internet of Things, together with spinout StratIS, Llc., the leading provider of access, energy, and automation […]

Rajant’s New Wireless Application Device Brings HD Video and Terabyte Storage Capabilities to Network Edge

July 23, 2015

CacheCrumb™ Provides a Distributed Way to Scale and Manage Big Payloads and High-speed Sensors over Wireless PHILADELPHIA–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Rajant, a manufacturer of kinetic mesh™ technology for building private wireless networks, today announced the launch of its CacheCrumb node, a wireless transceiver with built-in processing power that enables applications to be pushed to the edge of a […]

Zagster Raises $3.5 Million to Take Bike-Sharing Across the U.S.

July 14, 2015

Public bike-sharing programs in North America have performed variably, with less than hoped-for ridership in Chicago, Denver, Chattanooga and Minneapolis, and technical glitches and disputes over where to place bike kiosks in New York. One supplier of bikes and related technology to a public bike-sharing program in Toronto, Bixi, even went bankrupt. But venture investors […]

Can Wearable Tech Combat Sexual Assault?

June 11, 2015

ROAR is a startup that’s building a wearable device designed to deter attackers and notify loved ones. Yasmine Mustafa knew things were out of control when somebody was abducted outside her Philadelphia apartment and raped. This wasn’t a bad part of town, either: The self-described serial entrepreneur lived in a pricey, well-lit part of downtown […]

Amazon Web Services Announces New Renewable Energy Project in Virginia

June 10, 2015

Amazon Solar Farm US East Will Be Virginia’s Largest Solar Farm, Expected to Produce Approximately 170,000 MWh of Energy Annually Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com company (NASDAQ:AMZN), today announced that it has teamed with Community Energy, Inc. to support the construction and operation of an 80 megawatt (MW) solar farm in Accomack County, […]

Montco launches bike share program for trails

May 4, 2015

The Montgomery County Commissioners today, in conjunction with Zagster, a leading provider of bikes-as-a-service, launched a pilot bike share program for its trail system. The initial two docking stations and rental locations are located in Lower Perkiomen Valley Park in Oaks, and at the head of the Pennypack Trail, just off Huntingdon Pike in Lower […]

CEO: Philly is a hive of innovation activity. So how can we cross-pollinate?

April 29, 2015

Philadelphia has the ability to rewrite the rules on collaborative innovation. While knowledge used to be power, it is now knowledge-sharing that can create a long-term, sustainable ecosystem of growth. If University City is a ‘hive’ of innovation, there’s no queen bee – it’s an orchestrated network of worker bees challenging antiquated beliefs and building […]