How did the 3rd Space Vest’s life begin?
Mark: Well, I’m a vascular surgeon, and where this actually all started is out of a health care application, specifically in regards to what we call “telehealth”. Telehealth uses audio/video communication systems to deliver health care. In the early nineties, I was in an academic career and we were asked in our Level One trauma center to help deliver health care to the prison population in Texas, so that the state could save some money and improve the logistics of transporting prisoners. We started a pilot project and in doing that delivered health care very effectively. However, the one thing that you couldn’t do as a doctor was the hands-on part of the examination. So, that is still an unmet need with respect to telehealth; as a doc you and see and talk to people but you can’t feel it. In the late 90’s/early 2000, I came up with some ideas on how to solve that problem, and put a company together specifically with the idea of being able to develop a set of devices that would allow for
