Last week I had a film crew at the house from Fox Business to film a segment for their website on the i-Limb hand, here’s the video they shot (watch carefully and you’ll see a cameo appearance by Kerry):

http://video.foxbusiness.com/v/3874914/inside-the-bionic-hand/

Also, here’s a video of Stuart Mead, TouchBionic’s CEO that includes a couple of my segments:

http://video.foxbusiness.com/v/3874915/prosthetics-re-thought/

Last night I was on TV again, this time on Kron 4 (a local Bay Area channel), Gabriel Slate interviewed me for his Tech Report in the morning and it aired in the evening at 5:52 pm!

Gabriel did a great job, he was cameraman and interviewer and wrapped the taping up in probably 45 minutes (compared to the 8 hrs it took for my MSNBC segment). He then edited it that afternoon and it aired in the evening…amazingly quick! It also came together really well, I’m impressed with how he pulled it all together into a well-organized segment, I take my hat off to him.

Here’s the segment online:

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I got a call from Rich Sire from Diablo P&O the other day asking if I’d be willing to be video’d using my i-Limb hand for a TouchBionics promo video.

I’ve been working with Rich to get a socket built for my i-Limb hand. We’re now on our third prototype and getting pretty close to ironing out all the kinks, I typically use it for half a day at a time and I’m getting reasonably proficient using the hand for everyday tasks…huge step up from my normal hook.

Given how much I like the hand I was quite happy to provide a testimonial, so I headed to Rich’s office Friday for the shoot. It was similar to the MSNBC shoot I did, just on a smaller scale and it only took half a day.

They basically wanted to first shoot a normal consultation between Rich and I and then they took my testimonial for the hand followed by some action shots of me using the hand to fill my water bottle, drive my car, carry a brief case and so on. All quite fun.

They should be using the material for a big conference TouchBionics is attending in Germany, I’m hoping to get a copy of the footage so I can post it online here.

There’s no stopping me now, MSNBC today…Oprah tomorrow!

On Tuesday we had a crew in to film a segment for the MSNBC show Your Business about Kaboodle and how small companies face crises. It was sparked by my article in the San Francisco chronicle a couple of months back.

It took a full day to film: setting up; interviewing myself, Manish and Chetan (my business partners); interviewing investors and filming the Kaboodle team…a full day for a two and a half-minute segment! Incredible, the time it takes, considering this was just the filming part of the process.

It was interesting to hear my adventure last year relived from a number of different perspectives: myself; Manish & Chetan, who had to make sure Kaboodle survived and our investors, (we were just in the process of closing our series A funding).

Of course, everyone expressed concern first and foremost for my own situation (one of our investors even offered to fly out to Colombia!), but after that it came down to really pulling together to ensure that Kaboodle survived. Our investors are quite a close-knit group who have invested together in the past, they still believed in the team and Kaboodle and so there was little question they would continue forward. For Manish and Chetan it came down to putting in place a backup plan to manage through my absence (which at that time was of indeterminate length). Fortunately we have such a great team that Chetan was able to work with everyone to manage my responsibilities…both of them believed I would return and resisted the need to find my replacement.

I’m looking forward to seeing the segment, it’ll air on MSNBC’s Your Business nationally on May 13th at 7:30 am (both east & west coast).