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Wednesday was the 16th installment of Mass Innovation Nights in Waltham. Once again, it was hosted at the IBM Innovation Center, and this month’s tabletop theme was Green Tech. The launch presentations included Drupal Gardens, Real Cool TV, Episend, and Pietzo Electric Bikes. Heading into the event, Episend and Pietzo stole the most votes from the MassInno community, and both delivered. Real Cool TV also lived up to the hype — it was third in the pre-#MIN16 voting.
Here’s a little bit of Flickr fun shot by BostInno’s own Dave Bolton:
Episend launched in February, but the team behind the brand immediately won an MITX Tech Award for its function and simplicity. CEO Richard DiBona explained that Episend allows users to send any type of digital media (videos, MP3s, documents, etc.) to friends online using a dedicated URL — no username or password required (though the site presumably offers an upgrade for private sharing). The technology in more impressive than DropBox’s, but similarly delivers expansive files personally through the cloud. Imagine sending an Email with notes explaining all your files, only they automatically play on the page when your friends click them — just like on a website.
Pietzo has been covered extensively in the Boston tech scene, can be found at Harvard, and recently delivered a custom fleet of their pedal-plus-power-driven two wheeled battery bikes to the Lynnfield Police Department. If these things don’t bring to rise a new bicycle sup-culture of less-healthfreak-ish city cyclists in Boston and Cambridge, we don’t know what will. A switch on the handlebars determines whether the bicycle’s battery offers double, triple or even quadruple the pedal power of the rider, and CEO Steve Mongeau even said the average rider can throw saddle bags on it and carry up to 50 pounds with them for the sub-$2,000 asking price.
Real Cool TV helps people spread awareness through video content leveraged on social media. CEO Jim Ringrose came slinging the sermon of quality video content’s undeniable effectiveness online. No one in the audience could disagree, and even those who don’t “get” social media knew enough to keep quiet when Ringrose explained the importance of getting highly-interested viewers to share that content online. It will definitely be interesting to see what kind of video content they wind up developing for members of the local startup community.
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