Welcome to Innovation House!

Trackehr is a health tech startup dedicated to improving communication between patients and healthcare staff within health facilities. Their software allows patients to receive real-time information from healthcare staff and even share with their closest relatives. The software further consists of unique features like translation of medical jargon, personalized educational material and feedback loop.
Homepage: www.trackehr.is
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Welcome to Innovation House!

New team at Innovation House – Welcome!

Rafíþróttafélagið develops a framework for breaking down competitive games into coachable components and develop drills, training scenarios and educational material to be delivered in person by a coach.

This is accompanied by training methodology and structure that combines gaming, physical activity and socially stimulating games. All of this can be adopted and taught by anyone with access to a facility with 10 or more computers.

 

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Icelandic music tech company Genki Instruments, one of the startups at Innovation House Reykjavik ships Wave, it’s debut product

Great news! Icelandic music tech company Genki Instruments, one of the startups at Innovation House Reykjavik ships Wave, it’s debut product. Wave is the ring that lets you control sound with motion.

Wave is the ring that lets you control sound with motion. First shown to the world as a rough prototype at NAMM 2018, Wave by Genki Instruments caught the eyes of attendees and media alike (Reuters, Synthtopia) for it’s unique properties and innovative technology.

Wave allows musicians to easily control sound, shape effects or send commands using gestures. With three accessible buttons, users are in full control and can turn the ring on or off as well as change sounds, parameters and effects without having to go back to the computer. Due to it’s design musicians never have to take their hands off their instrument while using Wave, and using Wave on top off the instruments adds another layer of creativity to it. Read more: on Ask Audio

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Vivaldi goes mobile!

Vivaldi goes mobile

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Meet the TAG – Developer meet-up at Innovation House

The W3C TAG (Technical Architecture Group) is in charge of coordinating cross-technology architecture and the principles of web architecture at the World Wide Web Consortium – in other words, it’s kind of a technical steering group for web standards.
The group had a great developer meet-up on the evening of the 21st of May at Innovation House. Format for the day was an mini-unconference, kicking off at 18:30 with some lightning talks. Lightning speakers:
• Hjalmar Gislason, Founder & CEO, GRID – Spreadsheets are Programs
• Alice Boxhall, Google and W3C TAG – Accessibility Object Model
• Guðmundur Már Gunnarsson, Vivaldi – Lost in navigation
• Árni Hermann, Avo – Human Accessible Developer Tools

Topics discussed in groups after lighting talks (break outs) included Content Editable, spatial navigation, Semantics, webvtt, and scroll snapping.

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Meet The TAG, Reykjavík on May 21st at Innovation House

The W3C TAG (Technical Architecture Group) is in charge of coordinating cross-technology architecture and the principles of web architecture at the World Wide Web Consortium – in other words, it’s kind of a technical steering group for web standards. We’re having a face to face meeting coming up in Reykjavík (kindly hosted by Vivaldi) in late May, 2019. We’re working on a host of design reviews across the spectrum of emerging web technologies, as well as security & privacy and design guidelines for API developers.

 

 

As part of our time here we’ll be holding a developer meet-up on the evening of the 21st of May (also hosted by Vivaldi) where we can let you know what we’re up to and get feedback from the web developer community about your priorities. ).

Format for the day will be an mini-unconference, kicking off at 18:30 with some lightning talks. We will be confirming lightning speakers soon. Weill end the event with food and drink.

Our lightning speakers will be:

Come along find out what else we’re working on, get a heads-up of new Web standards and technologies in development and air the web technology issues that matter to you.

When: May 21st
Were: Innovation House, 3rd floor.  Eiðistorg 13-15 – 170 Seltjarnarnes

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Tvíund visiting Vivaldi

Vivaldi had the pleasure of hosting students from Tvíund, the student society for Computer Science students from Reykjavík University.

These „Science trips“ are quite common among university students in Iceland (vísindaferðir in Icelandic). Science Trip – is when a group visits an organization or place of interest. This time it was Vivaldi. The students learned about Vivaldi browser and could talk to the Vivaldi team in a relaxed setting.

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Visit from Íverksetatahúsið in Klaksvík

Our friends from Íverksetarahúsið from The Faroe Islands, visited Innovation House last week. They learned about the idea behind Innovation House in Iceland and meet some of the startups as well. ?

Íverksetarahúsið is an entrepreneurial house located in Klaksvík, yet its activity spans across the entire Faroe Islands. In addition to rendering help and counsel to Faroese entrepreneurs and businesses, Íverksetarahúsið is also responsible for instructing primary and lower secondary school teachers in entrepreneurship, which they in turn can teach their students. Íverksetarahúsið further offers entrepreneurs in-house office spaces in Klaksvík

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Computer Science and Software Engineering students visiting Vivaldi

Vivaldi had the pleasure of hosting students from Nörd or ‘Nerd‘ in English, the student society for Computer Science and Software Engineering students from the University of Iceland, and Data Computer Science students from the University of Akureyri.

These „Science trips“ are quite common among university students in Iceland (vísindaferðir in Icelandic). Science Trip – is when a group visits an organization or place of interest. This time it was Vivaldi. The students learned about Vivaldi browser and could talk    to the Vivaldi team in a relaxed setting.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Meet the startups! Size Advice is one of the startups in Innovation House

Size Advice (sizeadvice.com) is a software plugin that helps you buy the right size clothes online. Returned clothing bought online costs the apparel industry billions of dollars and one of the biggest reason for returns is problems with the fit.
The Size Advice team has developed proprietary methods to drastically simplify the process of measuring your body. This technology is now being packaged into a plugin for eCommerce platforms (Shopify, Magento, etc.).
In the Size Advice team, there are two guys called Emil and Emil. You can call them Emil 1 and Emil 2. Emil 1 handles the technical side of the product: designing, implementing and testing code and making sure things run smoothly. Emil 2 too.
When the Emils aren’t working on the product, they are probably hiking, travelling or hanging out with friends and family.
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