Emergency Responders Are Building a Star Trek-Style Communication Device

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Name: OnBeep

One-Liner Pitch: OnBeep is developing wearable devices that promise to let groups communicate without ever having to pull out their smartphones.

Why It's Taking Off: The startup aims to change the way groups collaborate in real time.

Jesse Robbins has a tendency to move in the opposite direction of the tech industry. He worked as a systems engineer in the late 1990s, but just as the dot-com bubble was reaching its frothiest point, he decided to take a step back from the industry. The reason? Robbins wanted to become a firefighter. Read more...

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Emergency Responders Are Building a Star Trek-Style Communication Device