The uniqueness of the watch isn't in the way it collects data, it is the way it analyses data. At the meeting the lead engineer said they all work the same, which is why our watch and Apple's have problems with tattoos. Each uses light thru the skin to some degree. DK made the point that a lot depended on getting companies/experts/databases that specialized in fatigue management into the Curaegis system and I think he has agreements with the people he wanted on board. IF I read one of his announcements correctly. We also have a different way of using a 7 day collection of data from each MyCadian owner. That isn't a patentable product, in my opinion, but it is unique. That seems to be the difference. A MyCadian watch owner doesn't just get an app that tells him he was tired every afternoon, it has a much deeper analysis and a plan to deal with the problem. At least that is the impression I got from the meeting.
The MyCadian watch is sort of a high tech version of a trucker's log book, except the important fatigue information is collected automatically and shared with the company or command center in real time. It would also be another tool for oversight that could give a warning ahead of time, instead of relying on a deadman switch in a train cab. The other watches can record when someone is sleeping, but I don't think they can predict when that might happen and notify an overseer at a distant location.
Torvec/Curaegis was beta testing the watch internally at the last meeting. I think they might have it in the field with some of the contacts DK had been talking to. Remember he was eager to sell it last summer. Maybe I'm dreaming, but some of this is real.
I agree about the confusion with the pump. We had some version of it working on a Dodge truck years ago. The EPA regulations are in place now and only going to get worse. Why any manufacturer would sell a hobbled version of equipment so inferior to used, older equipment, that customers prefer to buy used, doesn't make sense. That example was confirmed to me by someone in the business after the last meeting. Maybe they are closer than we think, but I guess changing the way things are done in house by using outsider technology has always been the wall that stopped Torvec from going into production since day one. Room for gloom, but why not be excited? Many years of dead ends and disappointment, so why not something great for once? All kinds of bizarre things happen every year around the world, maybe all of us getting a healthy return on a long term investment, could be one of them. EOM
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