Finally, maps for the blind

That's all folks - closing comments

Thanks so much for listening to my series of interviews at CES 2025! I hope you've enjoyed it. I'd love it if you'd leave a rating and/or comments to help me improve future podcasts and please do share with anyone that you think might enjoy them too. Bye for now! Jez

Renewable heating using energy from underground spaces such as parking lots & shopping malls

The roll out of renewable heating and cooling is key to our battle to combat climate change. Yet heat pumps generally require a lot of excavation, or bulky equipment which can be difficult to accommodate in dense urban settings. Enerdrape has addressed this issue by exploiting latent heat in underground spaces, such as tube stations, shopping malls and underground car parks. By connecting large thin wall-mounted panels to a heat pump, they’re able to provide renewable heating and cooling to urban spaces such as office blocks with minimal impact on the fabric of the building. I interviewed Margaux Peltier, Founder and CEO of Enerdrape at CES on January 8th 2025. I hope you enjoy it. More info at https://enerdrape.com/en/

Improving access to Primary Care with OnMed’s ‘Clinic in a box’

Access to Primary Care is a serious challenge in many parts of the world. In many rural communities in the developing world, a doctor could be a day’s drive away, but even in the developed world, many patients have to wait weeks for an appointment with a medical professional. OnMed addresses this need by providing a ‘clinic in a box’ called a CareStation, which can be dropped anywhere with a mains power supply. The CareStation provides rapid access to a ‘life sized’ medical professional as well as diagnostic tools such as a stethoscope, an infra-red thermal imager and a high-definition camera probe which can assist the medical professional in diagnosing the patient’s issues, resulting in far higher patient satisfaction than is typically the case with other telemedicine solutions. OnMed calls this Hybrid Care. I interviewed OnMed’s CEO Karthik Ganesh at CES on the 7th January 2025. More details at onmed.com.

Finally, maps for the blind

It’s a long-held belief that blind people just can’t use maps, even to the extent that, here in the UK, maps are exempt from accessibility legislation. Brandon Biggs has changed all that. Brandon is the totally-blind Founder and CEO of XR Navigation, makers of Audiom, the world’s first inclusive map viewer. I interviewed Brandon at CES Las Vegas on January 7th 2025. In the interview, he explains the technology, why he developed it, what kind of customers the company has and how they’re using it. More information at xrnavigation.io [http://www.galenhealth.org] and www.audiom.net [http://www.audiom.net]

Using AI for early detection of Pancreatic cancer

Pancreatic cancer is often described as a silent killer, because there are no clear symptoms and it’s often detected when patients only have weeks left to live. Another amazing founder that I interviewed at CES on January 9th 2025 was Logan Nye of Galen Health. A medic and computer scientist, Logan and his team has devised an AI that helps predict the onset of Pancreatic Cancer much, much earlier than is typically the case today. It does this by automatically and continuously scanning medical records, looking for correlations that human medics simply do not have the time for. In the interview, Logan explains why he chose to make this his life’s work, how the system works and how it could ultimately be applied to many other cancer types. More information at www.galenhealth.org [http://www.galenhealth.org]