TORONTO — Yvonne Felix, an artist and mother, can watch her two young boys play at a park, read restaurant menus and street signs, and work at a job that until recently she would have had to turn down due to low vision caused by her Stargardt's Disease. She's one of many people whose lives have been changed by a high-tech pair of glasses developed by a small Canadian company called eSight eyewear (Ottawa).

SAN FRANCISCO — The 21st annual Medical Device Conference, sponsored by the law firm of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati (WSG&R; Palo Alto, California), is the "granddaddy" of venture capital (VC) oriented gatherings, and draws from a variety of groups, including VCs, medical device entrepreneurs, patent attorneys, accounting firms and other service providers to the medical device industry.