Small Bone Innovations (Morrisville, Pennsylvania) joins the list of smaller, yet well established med-tech firms to have assets acquired by a larger player in the space. This time out, Stryker (Kalamazoo, Michigan) is the acquiring company, picking up SBI's assets in an all-cash transaction for up to $375 million.

Much to my father’s utter disappointment I’m sure, I did not inherit the sci-fi appreciation gene. I never understood the cult phenomenon created by Star Trek and have always preferred living in the now over fantasizing about the future. While I’ll never be able to call myself a Trekkie, I have slowly gained an appreciation over the years for technology that seems to have been plucked right off the fictional starship USS Enterprise. A fascinating example of this, as Spock would say, is the rise of 3-D printing. The advancement of 3-D printing, also known as additive manufacturing, is predicted...

In 1997, Amit Goffer, an Israeli inventor, was severely paralyzed as a result of an ATV accident. Not content with his condition or the level of innovation available for paralyzed patients, Goffer, who is now a quadriplegic, began work on mobility devices. His work paid off as he eventually developed an exoskeleton to help paraplegic patients walk.