Life’s a beach with SBU’s inclusive water-quality app
By GREGORY ZELLER // Come on in, the water’s fine. That’s the promise of the Long Island Beach and Water Quality App, a unique public app designed by Stony Brook…
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New website, hot tech set energy innovator’s course
By GREGORY ZELLER // Energy efficiency has a new online home. That’s the word from Stony Brook-based ThermoLift, which has flipped the switch on a new user-friendly, information-rich website designed…
Now entering the arena: You, thanks to this
By GREGORY ZELLER // An interesting new vertical continues to soar at Woodbury-based Janam Technologies, where workplace-tough tech is making room for Age of Coronavirus-inspired tools. The latest example comes…
SBU and BNL score, on collision course with awesome
By GREGORY ZELLER // A Long Island research team has earned a rare U.S. Department of Energy honor – and helped usher scientists toward startling new discovering about the universe’s…
Reality writes: Classic literature, now augmented
By GREGORY ZELLER // Picture this: Two Adelphi University computer-science seniors (now graduates) have turned an interactive poetry project into its own augmented reality, complete with massive commercial and educational…
FindaTopDoc finds purpose in pandemic, and success
By GREGORY ZELLER // A Long Island startup that was innovating telehealth long before the pandemic came calling has established a unique footprint in the Age of Coronavirus. The social-distancing…
Thanks for the Quantum Memory: DOE backs Qunnect
By GREGORY ZELLER // A red-hot “Quantum Memory” technology has secured a seven-figure federal grant for a Stony Brook startup with plans for ultra-secure global communications. Qunnect Inc., which leverages…
At CEWIT tech conference, the future is in their hands
By GREGORY ZELLER // Stony Brook University will flex its innovation muscle in March, bulking up its Technology Commercialization Conference with an entire campus worth of creativity. The university’s Office…
Sun rises on new ‘STEAM Shack’ for kids with cancer
By GREGORY ZELLER // A unique day camp for children with cancer is kicking on its STEAM engines. The Wheatley Heights-based Sunrise Day Camp-Long Island, a no-charge summer camp for…
Microscopic imaging for any science? You better ThINC
By GREGORY ZELLER // Stony Brook University is living large at one of the smallest ideas it ever had. If you’re a multinational fragrance company based on Long Island, or…
Embracing Long Island’s 5G future, before it’s too late
By GREGORY ZELLER // The window to Long Island’s data-connectivity future is wide open – but it will close fast if regional rainmakers don’t get with the 5G program. That’s…
Panel walks the fine line of sports-tech innovation
By GREGORY ZELLER // Properly handled, technological innovation makes for good sports – and properly presented, good sports innovators make for an engaging panel discussion. So an audience of 30-plus…
It’s lights, cameras, innovation for IPS
By GREGORY ZELLER // Overture, curtains, lights: This is it for IPS – a bona fide Hollywood closeup – and, oh, what heights they’ll hit. And the best part is,…
Suffolk: Something co-working at Wyandanch Rising
By GREGORY ZELLER // The retail side of the Wyandanch Rising redevelopment project isn’t ascending as quickly as the residential side – but the imbalance has created a unique workforce-development…