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SiNode Systems' Guy Peterson, from left, Nishit Mehta and Executive Director Samir Mayekar are pictured at Northwestern University.

Intellihot wins $400,000 in Illinois Clean Energy Fund Awards

May 20, 2019 at 8:45 p.m.

A Galesburg hot water-heating system maker took home $400,000 Monday night as the first-place winner in the first Illinois Clean Energy Fund Awards. Intellihot, a maker of tankless water heaters,...

Matter health-tech incubator announces its first 10 companies

May 20, 2019 at 8:44 p.m.

The first 10 startup companies at Matter, a health-tech incubator set to open in the Merchandise Mart early next year, include a specialty pharmaceutical company, a creator of a blood-sampling...

How ‘Charlie’ aims to brief you on people you’re about to meet

May 20, 2019 at 8:44 p.m.

Banking on the idea that busy meeting goers will pay for a little advance scouting, Chicago-based software startup Charlie launches Thursday, promising to deliver one-page summaries on attendees of upcoming...

Carvey, Inventables’ desktop carving machine, gets Kickstarted quickly

May 20, 2019 at 8:43 p.m.

Zach Kaplan pushed the button on his first Kickstarter campaign at 8 a.m. Tuesday. Less than 90 minutes later, the Inventables CEO heard a cheer from outside his office. Carvey,...

3D-printed hearts, iPad mini tablets and surgery inside tiny ears

May 20, 2019 at 8:43 p.m.

As the 3D-printed infant ribcage made its way through the Chicago Ideas Week audience, Kathy Barsness talked about innovation. "Children aren't as big a market," said Barsness, a pediatric surgeon...

Microsoft plans ‘Ignite’ conference for spring 2015 in Chicago

May 20, 2019 at 8:42 p.m.

Microsoft Corp. next spring will make Chicago the host city for a new week-long event that will showcase its products to technology professionals. Microsoft Ignite is scheduled May 4-8 at...

One takeaway message from "Education: The End of School," a Chicago Ideas Week event, is that children should play and explore with other children, without adult restrictions and guidelines.

Chicago Ideas Week: A call to radically change children’s education

May 20, 2019 at 8:42 p.m.

Children shouldn't go to school as we know it but should instead play and explore with other children, without adult restrictions and guidelines. That was perhaps the most provocative perspective...

Internet of Things World Forum: Reporter meets robot

May 20, 2019 at 8:42 p.m.

The Ava 500 turned her screen as I approached, rolling quietly across the ballroom carpet to get a little closer, like any good networker at a business conference. I reached...

Elfrink said more than 3 billion objects have been digitally "connected" in the last year and that the number is growing by 300,000 things every hour.

Internet of Things: 300,000 more things become connected every hour

May 20, 2019 at 8:40 p.m.

The Internet of Things is surging past consumer-centered connections involving smart phones and satellites and is poised to transform traditional industries with billions of sensors that are as chatty as...

Chicago Ideas Week: Are you a builder? A ‘mad scientist,’ maybe?

May 20, 2019 at 8:41 p.m.

The conventional wisdom on the startup circuit is that some people are born to be entrepreneurs. But executive coach Barry Saltzman told a Chicago Ideas Week audience Tuesday that everyone...

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