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Consumer Electronics Daily News 5 3 Friday, January 6, 2017 OPCOM FARM MAKES INDOOR GARDENING AS EASY AS PLANT, PICK & PLATE OPCOMLink USA announced its OPCOM Farm indoor gardening sys- tems, which enables anyone to easily grow their favorite vegetables, herbs, sprouts and fruits inside their homes, year-round. The GrowBox and GrowWall mod- els couple OPCOM's soil-free, hydro- ponic growing technology with propri- etary color LED lighting tuned for opti- mal plant growth. These next generation indoor gardens enable 25 percent faster growth cycles, and eliminate the chal- lenges of weeding, pests and weather normally associated with outdoor gar- dening. GrowBox, a tabletop system incor- porating four multi-wavelength LED lamps, is able to grow up to 50 plants at a time. GrowWall offers a space-saving vertical design with advanced LED tubes that support up to 75 plants displayed on five different levels. Both models use approximately 90 percent less water than traditional outdoor gardening, offering an environmentally friendly way to grow. "Our gardening systems combine advanced lighting, water management and horticulture know-how, making it easy and fun to grow produce that is even fresher than farm-to-table; we call it Farm-on-Table," said Rajeev Mishra, Vice President and General Manager of OPCOMLink USA. "Given the overall concerns around eating safe and healthy fruits and vegetables, OPCOM Farm offers customers convenient and afford- able solutions to personally grow clean and fresh food the entire year." The GrowBox and GrowWall are priced at $499 and $599 respectively. The GrowBox is available at opcomfarm.com and Amazon. "You don't have to be a gardener to enjoy our products," Mishra says. "We are finding a lot of interest among urban dwellers, conscious consumers looking for pesticide free and non-GMO produce, and parents wanting to nurture an interest in their kids for healthy eating. It's also a great option for seniors and others who would like to garden without the physical toll." Given their impressive water conser- vation and zero carbon footprint, such systems are considered a highly sustain- able way to grow. "Hydroponics is the future of farming and food production," Mishra maintains, "and OPCOM is com- mitted to being at the forefront of this revolution." About OPCOM OPCOMLink USA Inc., based in Costa Mesa, California, is OPCOM's regional sales and marketing headquarters for the Americas. The company was established in 2014 to introduce advanced imaging and lighting technologies in products that help people achieve smart, healthy and simple lifestyles. OPCOM is a global tech- nology pioneer of advanced imaging and lighting solutions, delivering breakthrough technologies and quality products to the world's top brands for over 20 years. For more information, visit www .opcomfarm.com. EMAGIN ANNOUNCES NEW PRODUCTS FOR THE CONSUMER MARKET eMagin Corporation, a leader in the development, design and manufacture of Active Matrix OLED microdisplays for high resolution imaging products, announced the launch of two new prod- ucts: BlazeSpark⢠and BlazeTorchâ˘, innovative and affordable night vision products for the consumer marketplace. "eMagin is bringing military qual- ity, high resolution night vision to the mass market," said Andrew G. Sculley, President and Chief Executive Officer of eMagin. "Our products, BlazeSpark and BlazeTorch, were designed with the sports enthusiast in mind. With the superior night infrared technology and other features of the products, we expect them to be equally attractive to law enforcement, first responders, utili- ty companies and others who work at night. Importantly, we are launching these new products at disruptive price points compared to existing products on the market. As such, we believe eMagin has the capability to significantly expand the market for these applica- tions. We are also are excited to have been named a 2017 CES Innovation Award Honoree in the Digital Imaging product category for BlazeSpark. This prestigious award was presented at the CES Awards Banquet in New York City. Both products will be sold through our website, www.blazethenight.com, as well as through specialty partner chan- nels." The BlazeSpark product is a hand- held smartphone attachment that allows consumers to see clear, high-resolution images in the dark by inserting their smartphone into a revolutionary case that will display what the night vision sensor is seeing. A companion app allows users to record, chat and live stream content within the BlazeSpark network or to other social media sites and share their experience worldwide. The suggested retail price will be below $300. The BlazeTorch product is a wear- able device that utilize eMagin's advanced OLED microdisplay technolo- gy to provide hands-free operation dur- ing night-time activities with the capabil- ity to record and upload content. Video can be uploaded to www.blazethe night.com as well as shared with others on social media sites. The suggested retail price for the wearable headset will be below $1,000. "We have established the supply chain and built inventory for the initial launch. We anticipate ramping up pro- duction for expanded distribution during the first quarter of 2017. We expect a modest contribution to revenues in 2016 and look for a more meaningful contribu- tion in 2017 as volumes increase," con- tinued Sculley. "We believe that these products will form the basis of an important new rev- enue stream for the company outside of our traditional markets. We are excited by opportunities to further leverage our leading microdisplay technology to expand our consumer offerings beyond this initial product launch," concluded Sculley. About eMagin Corporation A leader in OLED microdisplay technol- ogy, OLED microdisplay manufacturing know-how and mobile display systems, eMagin manufactures high-resolution OLED microdisplays and integrates them with magnifying optics to deliver virtual images comparable to large-screen com- puter and television displays in portable, low-power, lightweight personal dis- plays. eMagin's microdisplays provide near-eye imagery in a variety of products from military, industrial, medical and consumer OEMs. For more information about eMagin, visit www.emagin.com. More information on eMagin's new consumer products, BlazeSpark and BlazeTorch, can be found at www.blazethenight.com. ARM & US TRUSTEDCARE INC PARTNER TO INTEGRATE WEARABLE & MEDICAL DEVICES FOR ACCOUNTABLE CARE US TrustedCare Inc., an Austin-based digital health company, and ARM, the world's leading semiconductor IP com- pany, are collaborating to enable new medical devices for the emerging accountable healthcare sector. The goal is to develop medical devices for use in the care of patients with chronic conditions in a way that allows a wide variety of providers to access information in a secure, authenticated and auditable man- ner. Allowing patients to recover at home and transition to a monitored wellness lifestyle should be the norm of future healthcare. ARM and TrustedCare's collabora- tion will create firmware, software technologies and APIs based on exist- ing and emerging standards for bridg- ing health care and wellness. These technologies will offer the industry telecare standards to enable healthcare and wellness device manufacturers to seamlessly integrate with a wide vari- ety of healthcare management systems, significantly reducing current complex integration issues. TrustedCare and ARM jointly sub- mitted a proposal to the "Move Health Data Forward Challenge," sponsored by the U.S. Department of Health and Humans Services' (HHS) Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) and were selected as a winner of Phase 1. (www.hhs.gov/about/news/2016/11/02/h hs-announces-phase-1-winners-move- health-data-forward- challenge.html) "ARM is the most widely deployed processor technology in smartphones and wearables, devices we expect to be the main platform for securely gathering med- ical data and acquiring a patient's biomet- ric identity and consent,""said Shiv Ramamurthi, Healthcare Technology Director, ARM. "TrustedCare is a pioneer in remote monitoring and together we can help improve health care efficiency by enabling providers to gather trusted data, helping them make timely clinical deci- sions and deliver better care at lower cost." "TrustedCare is focused on allowing healthcare providers to work in a coordi- nated way to enable the sustained recov- ery of patients. We are excited to work with ARM to create a new level of capa- bility that allows providers to deliver more positive outcomes for patients as well as benefiting from the shared sav- ings that will be generated," said TrustedCare Chief Executive Officer Ramkrishna Prakash. "This collaboration will alleviate the burgeoning issue of technology integra- tion facing the healthcare industry by standardizing communication interfaces and thereby significantly reducing the cost to integrate medical and wearable devices while at the same time bringing a new level of security and accountability in care delivery," said Betty Otter Nickerson, ex-Chief Executive Officer of Sage HealthCare. About US TrustedCare Inc. US TrustedCare, Inc., is a digital health and wellness company that enables healthcare providers to adapt and succeed in the new healthcare model introduced by the Affordable Care Act. It provides a unique approach to personalized care that incorporates patient-centric care man- agement via tools that assist in the development of personalized health and wellness plans tailored to an indi- vidual's wellness and social factors. Using its proprietary platform, care providers can adapt to and prosper from the shift in the healthcare indus- try from a procedure-based payment model to an outcome based payment model.