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The Insider UK: Scottish tech firms join forces on ground-breaking MRI scanner
Two Glasgow-based businesses have collaborated to produce a ground-breaking MRI scanner which aims to provide new insights into brain disease research. The project aims to provide new insights into brain disease research and will provide a large visual field for the neuroscientists to carry out functional-MRI studies. The Insider UK: Scottish tech firms join forces …
Read MoreWide Blue 20 January 2021
The Herald: Two Glasgow Firms Hail ‘Ground-Breaking’ New MRI Scanner
TWO Scottish firms have collaborated to produce a ground-breaking magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanner which aims to provide new insights into brain disease research. Both based in Glasgow, Wideblue, a product design consultancy, has linked up with MR CoilTech, to create the high-density radiofrequency (RF) head coil technology which it is claimed has successfully completed …
Read MoreWide Blue 19 January 2021
First Trial of “ground-breaking” MRI Scanner Project Completes
Glasgow-based product design consultancy Wideblue has contributed to the completion of the first trial of a “ground-breaking” MRI scanner project at the University of California, Berkeley. First trial of “ground-breaking” MRI scanner project completes
Read MoreWide Blue 14 January 2021
Wideblue Contributes to Ground Breaking MRI Scanner Project
Leading product design consultancy Wideblue has congratulated its client MR CoilTech on successfully completing the first trial of a novel high-density radiofrequency (RF) head coil technology at the University of California, Berkeley. The head coil design, a first of its kind, utilizes 16-channel transmit and 96-channel receive RF architecture. The new prototype high-density head coil …
Read MoreWide Blue 14 January 2021
Wideblue Earns Int’l Acclaim for CRiL
Wideblue received the German Design Award, as well as the sought after European Design Award, for its work on the groundbreaking CRiL Personal Capnometer. This innovation is a small, handheld, battery-powered, fully automated device that assesses a patient’s lung capacity and has game-changing implications for helping treat COVID-19. Pivot UK Blog: Wideblue Earns Int’l Acclaim …
Read MoreWide Blue 23 September 2020
How We Pivoted Production to Tackle Covid-19
“Glasgow-based medical device design firm WideBlue is proud to be carrying on Scotland’s rich history of innovation in the sector.” says MD Russell Overend. Read more about how Wideblue pivoted production to tackle Covid-19.
Read MoreWide Blue 21 September 2020
Breath-Measuring Device in Upcoming NHS Trials Could Monitor Recovery from Covid-19
Wideblue is working with NHS England on a clinical trial of its personal ‘capnometer’, and will be submitting its device in the next month. It could also help determine if a patient needs a ventilator. Commissioned by Cambridge Respiratory Innovations Limited, the CRiL N-Tidal C is designed to measure exhaled carbon dioxide (CO2) in the …
Read MoreWide Blue 01 July 2020
Responding to COVID-19
Wideblue is experienced and accredited for the development of medical devices. We thought it would be a good idea to combine GSS sensors into a medical device to make a personal capnometer. We needed a company to carry out the clinical trials and analyse the patient data so we invited Cambridge Respiratory Innovations (CRI) to …
Read MoreWide Blue 12 May 2020
Revolutionary New Crop Camera will Boost Global Agriculture
A revolutionary new camera that will detect crop disease quickly, efficiently and at a lower cost has been developed by University of the West of Scotland (UWS) academics. The technological breakthrough, led by researchers in UWS’s Institute of Thin Films, Sensors and Imaging (ITFSI), could potentially save farmers worldwide thousands of pounds in lost produce, …
Read MoreWide Blue 29 April 2020
Product Developer’s Big Break for Lung Patients
Breakthroughs are Wideblue’s business and one of the latest from the product developer is set to transform the lives of patients with breathing difficulties caused by conditions such as asthma and chronically blocked lungs. Wideblue: Product Developer’s Big Break for Lung Patients
Read MoreWide Blue 14 March 2020
Wideblue’s Camera to Make Crop Disease Detection Easier
Glasgow-based product consultancy Wideblue has designed a low-cost camera, which will be used in agriculture to test early-onset disease in various crops including potatoes and soft fruits. Led by Wideblue, the project was a collaboration between Wideblue and the University of Strathclyde, the University of the West of Scotland, the James Hutton Institute and Galloway …
Read MoreWide Blue 25 February 2020
Wideblue Wows at Med-Tech Innovation Expo
Product design, development and manufacturing consultancy Wideblue wowed attendees at Med-Tech Innovation Expo with its cutting-edge medical products and the ground-breaking technologies behind them. A leader in medical device design and development since 2006, Wideblue is partnering with the world’s leading medical device companies to deliver pioneering healthcare products to better people’s lives. Wideblue Wows …
Read MoreWide Blue 21 May 2019
Product Design Specialist WideBlue Acquired by Kansas Suitor
Glasgow-based prototyping business WideBlue has been acquired by a US product design and manufacturing firm for an undisclosed sum. Pivot International, founded in Kansas City in 1972, said it was looking for a strategic partner in Europe and had been speaking to WideBlue for 12 months. Product Design Specialist WideBlue Acquired by Kansas Suitor
Read MoreWide Blue 20 April 2018
Pivot International Acquires Wideblue
Mark Dohnalek, CEO of Pivot International states “This acquisition further expands our European scale of operations and positions Pivot for substantial European growth as a result.” The acquisition is Pivot’s fifth in the last 24 months continuing its substantial growth trajectory since 2012. Mark Dohnalek, Pivot International President and Chief Executive Officer describes the company’s …
Read MoreWide Blue 10 April 2018