A 'smart' house that responds to commands issued from your cell phone. A robot that knows you still have water left in the bottle you're about to discard. This isn't the future--this is Open House time at Intel, where imagination meets ingenuity.
The efforts of two local business partners have grown a palpable community inside a former candy-maker's building, and Mashable recently included it in its list of top 10 nontraditional workspaces.
Can an iPhone game convince kids to care about the planet? A York software studio seems to think it so. Runoff Studios, which focuses on environmental issues, recently developed a game called Face the Waste as a fun way to teach about recycling.
Xtreme Machining's .338-caliber Xtreme Tactical rifle system can accurately hit a human-sized target two meters away. The company is now marketing the product for military and law-enforcement purposes.
Four years ago Scott Belisle thought of a way to make a lighter, sturdier fishing rod. When he lost his job as a land surveyor last January, he decided to pursue it. And now outdoorsmen across the country want to buy his products.
Erie-based Code Kit PRO has developed the Pedi-PRO, a kit that stores medical supplies, rolls into a package the size of a sleeping bag and unrolls into a hard surface for cardiopulmonary resuscitation.
Philadelphia-based InstaMed allows doctors and health care centers the ability to turn any computing device into a payment terminal, able to calculate the copay and deductible for a complete check-out.
The expansion of the facility at Lehigh University, funded in part by a $6M federal grant and lauded by VP Joe Biden, will signal to the rest of the country that its technology business incubator is at the head of its class.