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Kay enters the Den and wins
AN entrepreneur hopes her business will go from strength to strength after securing an investment in television's Dragons' Den.
Kay Russell succeeded where most fail after accepting a £100,000 investment for 30 per cent of her business from fellow West Country businesswoman Deborah Meaden on the BBC show.
Her product Physicool, a sports bandage that stays ice-cold even if stored at room temperature, wowed the dragons' panel and got one of them reaching for her purse.
AN entrepreneur hopes her business will go from strength to strength after securing an investment in television's Dragons' Den.
Kay Russell succeeded where most fail after accepting a £100,000 investment for 30 per cent of her business from fellow West Country businesswoman Deborah Meaden on the BBC show.
Her product Physicool, a sports bandage that stays ice-cold even if stored at room temperature, wowed the dragons' panel and got one of them reaching for her purse.
New tool assesses prosthetics
A RESEARCHER at Eastern Michigan University and a company that makes prosthetic feet are working on a device that measures what happens when amputees use artificial limbs.
Frank Fedel and College Park Industries in Fraser have jointly developed a tool called the Intelligent Prosthetic Endoskeletal Component System, or iPecs.
Frank told Assistive Technologies that when he joined the university's orthotics and prosthetics master's degree program in 2003 he was surprised by the lack of hard data on how and whether prosthetics worked the way they were supposed to.
A RESEARCHER at Eastern Michigan University and a company that makes prosthetic feet are working on a device that measures what happens when amputees use artificial limbs.
Frank Fedel and College Park Industries in Fraser have jointly developed a tool called the Intelligent Prosthetic Endoskeletal Component System, or iPecs.
Frank told Assistive Technologies that when he joined the university's orthotics and prosthetics master's degree program in 2003 he was surprised by the lack of hard data on how and whether prosthetics worked the way they were supposed to.
