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Consumer Electronics Daily News Monday, January 7, 2019 4 0 Delos Launches World's First Residential Wellness Technology Platform Delos, the pioneer of wellness real estate and founder of the WELL Building Standard™, announced the launch of the DARWIN Home Wellness Intelligence platform – a groundbreaking offering designed to enhance health outcomes in the home and mitigate harmful indoor environ- mental concerns, utilizing Delos' propri- etary wellness algorithms and sensor tech- nologies, to create spaces that help reduce stress, improve sleep quality, increase per- formance and enhance overall well-being. "Despite most of human history spent outside, we now spend nearly 90 percent of our time indoors, and yet rarely focus on the impact the indoor environment can have on our health and well-being. Through extensive scientific research and real-world testing, we discovered that we can mitigate environmental triggers within our homes to enhance both physical and emotional well-being," said Delos Chief Executive Officer and Founder Paul Scialla. "Delos' DARWIN platform incor- porates health and wellness features and technologies into the home to bring the benefits of natural outdoor conditions inside. We are excited to work with our global partners to introduce a new era of wellness technology into homes." Backed by over seven years of research, the DARWIN Home Wellness Intelligence platform focuses on four main components: air filtration, water purification, circadian lighting and com- fort-focused technologies, all of which simulate the natural outdoor condition. Powered by Delos' proprietary cloud- based algorithms, the dynamic platform interacts with an ecosystem of Delos approved products and solutions to bring wellness intelligence into the connected home environment. DARWIN is flexible and accessible, launching across all seg- ments of the housing market, from mass market to luxury. Delos is partnering with premier dealers, installers, builders and other stakeholders across the globe to integrate the DARWIN Home Wellness Intelligence platform into residences: HTSA Network: Delos is training professionals throughout the United States to become accredited DARWIN dealers and installers. Simonds Homes: Simonds, a leading volume home builder in Australia, will include DARWIN as part of its base package in all new homes in the state of Victoria beginning this month, setting a new baseline for market rate housing. KB Home: Delos is a title sponsor for the KB "Home of Future," scheduled to be unveiled at the Show. DARWIN is featured as the home's wellness technol- ogy platform. Lateral Estate: Lateral, a preeminent Australian real estate developer, has announced DARWIN as a standard offer- ing in all of its multi-family residences at Parc Blakehurst in Sydney. 1371 Summitridge Drive, 521 North Cannon Drive: As part of a broad nation- al roll out in luxury housing, these luxury single family homes in Beverly Hills, California incorporate the comprehen- sive home wellness platform, making them the first luxury residences to be powered by DARWIN. DARWIN is cur- rently being commissioned by many of the most sought after newly constructed luxury homes in the United States. "For years, the value proposition of smart technology in the home has been elusive for the masses," said Delos Chief Technology Officer Jim Hunter. "These technologies have primarily focused on security, energy, convenience and enter- tainment. However, it is the health and well-being of the ones we love that is most valuable. Born out of extensive research, DARWIN is the delivery platform for our wellness algorithms that helps improve the environmental conditions where we live, work, sleep and play." Delos has fostered leading research collaborations with the Cleveland Clinic, Mayo Clinic, a board of doctors from the Columbia University Medical Center and architects, scientists and wellness thought leaders to introduce wellness standards, programs and solutions into the built environment. Delos established the Well Living Lab™ in collaboration with Mayo Clinic – the world's first lab committed to researching the real-world impacts of the indoor environment on human health and performance. Delos' wellness technolo- gies and solutions, along with the International WELL Building Institute's WELL Building Standard, have seen broad adoption of wellness real estate programs across the commercial real estate market, with nearly 1,000 projects in 35 countries. Building upon the sub- stantial success in the commercial sector, the launch of the DARWIN Home Wellness Intelligence platform marks the first expansion of Delos' offerings to the residential smart-home market. "Our home environment has a pro- found impact on our health, well-being and happiness. As the pioneer of wellness real estate and the founder of the WELL Building Standard, the introduc- tion of the DARWIN Home Wellness Intelligence platform is a natural exten- sion of Delos' leading science and research and makes improved health, well-being and happiness available to all," said Deepak Chopra (Delos Advisory Board Member). About Delos Delos is a wellness real estate and tech- nology company that is transforming the lives of people around the world by cre- ating residential and commercial spaces designed to improve health, well-being and performance. Informed by seven years of research and rigorous analysis of environmental health impacts on people, Delos and its affiliates offer an array of innovative technology, consulting and design solutions for residential and com- mercial spaces. Delos' wholly-owned subsidiary, the International WELL Building Institute pbc, delivers the WELL Building Standard™, the premier standard for buildings, interior spaces and communities seeking to implement, validate and measure features that sup- port and advance human health and well- ness. Delos' advisory board is comprised of leading professionals across real estate, government policy, medicine and sustainability, including renowned well- ness luminary Deepak Chopra and sus- tainability advocate Leonardo DiCaprio. For more information about Delos, visit www.delos.com. Genovation Cars: The Green Car Company By Steve Keyes, Communications Director, Centigrade for Genovation Cars Genovation's long-term goal is to be a premier provider of high performance sustainable automobiles. Genovation is committed to advancing the state of the art in EV technology with the knowledge that performance EVs will accelerate the delivery of sustainable products for future generations. The Genovation GXE Corvette all electric supercar has broken several significant world records on mul- tiple occasions while reimagining an American icon. Genovation is raising the bar in energy storage, propulsion, com- posite and suspension technologies. We ask our customers to join us on this jour- ney. In recent years, several issues have converged to create a demand for the kind of vehicle Genovation builds: Climate change, due to high carbon dioxide emissions, is now a widely accepted fact. As a global community, we must all take whatever actions we can to reduce harmful greenhouse gases. A recent draft report from the US Government titled Climate Science Special Report finds it "extremely likely that more than half of the rise in temper- ature over the past four decades has been caused by human activity." There has been an increase in the awareness of the negative effects of air pollution, especially on the young and old. The World Health Organization has estimated that up to 2.4 million people a year die from causes directly attrib- uted to air pollution. Research has shown a cor- relation between air pollu- tion and the incidences of asthma, particularly among children. As atmospheric CO2 levels rise, the gas dissolves into our oceans, causing the water to become more acidic. Ocean acidification nega- tively impacts biodiversity and is partic- ularly damaging to shellfish and kelp, putting fisheries around the globe at risk. The Genovation team is comprised of a small and capable group of engineers and automotive experts that are commit- ted to building world class products. In order to achieve this goal, Genovation has teamed with one of the world's preeminent contract manufacturers, The Prefix Corporation, to make the GXE a reality. Steeped in Detroit and European auto- motive know how, Prefix is helping make the GXE a styl- ish, robust, world class elec- tric supercar. At the same time, we have teamed with a number of smaller technology companies, like Stafl Systems, that bring a fresh approach to innovation in the automotive sector. The combination of large and small, of tradi- tional and new organizations, has result- ed in the creation of the world's fastest certified street legal electric supercar, the Genovation GXE. For more information, visit www .genovationcars.com. Virtual Reality Sound: What is It? Why Do You Want It? By John Kasha, Chief Executive Officer of KAI Technology Inc. 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