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Wideblue Starts SBRI Medicines Adherence Project

Wideblue have been chosen as the product development subcontractor in the recent SBRI Healthcare NHS England competition. The contract was awarded in October 2014 and seeks to develop an innovative new medical device aimed at improving medicines adherence.

The project is an SBRI phase 1 project and aims to show the technical feasibility of this innovative concept within six months. The SBRI competition challenge was to develop innovative products to get the right information to the right people at the right time, overcome physical, cultural, language and mental barriers, minimise errors and wastage in prescribing & dispensing, risk stratification in medicines adherence and eliminate risks at system interface.

Wideblue director Grant King presented Product Development workshop at St Andrews University

Wideblue director Grant King presented a workshop on Product Development in the Photonics Industry to the SPIE Student Chapter at St Andrews University.

Part of a two-day event, the workshop was attended by a range of PhD students and focussed on the real-world management challenges of developing imaging products in the digital marketplace.

Other photonics companies running workshops were Glasgow based M2 Lasers and Dunfermline based Optos.

Wideblue Director in Commonwealth Games Queen’s Baton Relay

Wideblue director Russell Overend was selected to run a leg of the Commonwealth Games Queen’s Baton Relay in his home village of Langbank on 17th July. Russell was selected for his good work project managing the creation of a new football field, organising the village gala days, and for his work on the community council.

Russell said “It was a lovely day and we had a great turnout to cheer the baton through the village.”

Wideblue Visits Potential Chinese Manufacturers

Wideblue Director Russell Overend visited various companies in China looking for suitable partners for a number of specific projects. Although Wideblue already works with many Chinese companies this trip focussed on a range of toolmakers, injection moulding companies, product assembly companies, optical component companies and optical assembly companies. The tour took Russell to suppliers in Hong Kong and Shenzhen in the south and to Hangzhou and Ningbo in Zhejiang Province.

Russell said “This was a good trip. We found many promising potential suppliers with good capabilities and equipment. May is a lovely time of year to visit China. It is always good to visit factories and meet the people you will be dealing with face to face.”

Wideblue now has access to an ever-increasing range of component and final product manufacturers in the UK, Europe, and the Far East.

Wideblue Signs Contracts with the IMPOSSIBLE Film Company

Wideblue have recently signed contracts with the IMPOSSIBLE film company to design two new instant film cameras for worldwide markets.

IMPOSSIBLE have been developing and selling a range of instant imaging films and refurbished Polaroid instant imaging cameras since 2008 when they set up in the old Polaroid Enschede film manufacturing plant in the Netherlands. IMPOSSIBLE estimate there are still 300,000,000 functioning Polaroid instant imaging cameras in existence and are currently supplying instant film from 2,000 outlets worldwide. Last year they launched their first hardware product the Instant Lab which is now selling worldwide through the Apple Retail Stores. Earlier this year IMPOSSIBLE signed contracts with Wideblue to create two new instant imaging cameras for launch in 2015. The two new cameras will be based on modern electronic platforms offering advanced features to keen analogue photographers.

Wideblue are delighted to be part of this inspirational project to recreate the magic of instant photography through the creation of two new analogue cameras for the digital age.

Some recent press coverage: Herald Scotland and The Independent.