Intelligent Product Solutions (IPS) and Kablooe Design announced that they have joined forces to launch an end-to-end medical device design and engineering service. Both subsidiaries of Forward Industries (NSDQ:FORD), Happauge, N.Y.-based IPS and Kablooe (Minneapolis) have complementary services, including human factors engineering, verification and regulatory support along with upfront research and testing. Get the full story on our sister site, […]
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Forward Industries to buy Kablooe Design for $1.6 million
Forward Industries (NSDQ:FORD) today announced the acquisition of substantially all of the assets of medical device design company Kablooe Design for $1.6 million in cash, equity, assumed debt and contingent earn-outs. Hauppauge, N.Y.-based Forward Industries is a technology product design company. Kablooe’s clients include Medtronic, Boston Scientific, Coloplast, Atricure, Cega Innovations and Rapid Diagnostek. Get the full […]
Medical devices: When should you make them smarter?
The drive toward value in healthcare has increased demand for smarter medical devices able to provide information for real-time feedback, as well as after-the-fact analysis. So when does it make sense to actually make a medical device smarter? And how do you go about it? Tom KraMer, CEO of Kablooe Design outside Minneapolis, has a […]
Failure to thrive: Lessons learned from medtech innovations that missed the mark
Some of the medical device industry’s most heralded disruptors wound up being its biggest failures. Here’s what we can learn from their mistakes. Fink Densford, Associate Editor No one in medtech sets out to fail. No one invests in building a device believing that, despite years of research and development, it won’t make the cut. […]
