Press Releases 2009

• Tobii is a Finalist for the Red Herring 100 Global Award

  Tobii Technology has been selected as a finalist for Red Herring's Global 100 award, a prestigious list honoring the year’s most promising private technology ventures from around the world.

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• Tobii Technology får 5 miljoner för att ta fram språkverktyg för handikappade barn

  Tobii Technology har erhållit 5 miljoner kronor i forskningsbidrag genom VINNOVAS Forska&Väx. Pengarna ska användas för att utveckla nya kommunikationslösningar som kan ge barn med intellektuella handikapp ett rikare och mer självständigt liv.

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• Tobii Technology receives SEK 5 million for the development of language tools for disabled children

  Tobii Technology has received SEK 5 million in research funding by VINNOVAS program Forska&Väx (research and grow). The money will be used to develop new communication solutions that can provide intellectually disabled children with a richer and more independent life.

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• Tobii gets Bronze in SIME Awards

  SIME is Northern Europe’s largest Internet and digital business opportunity event. The SIME prizes were awarded on Thursday evening, November 12th. Thirty-six young and promising Nordic companies were nominated by the SIME jury for this year’s new category “SIME Rising Star of the North”.

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• Ännu en superentreprenör till Tobii

  Mathias Plank, grundare av bland annat Sidewalk Express, inleder ett samarbete med Tobii med ansvar för att bidra till att ta företagets teknologi till nya marknader.

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• European launch of brand new AAC devices from Tobii

  Tobii Technology offers a wide range of Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) products that give people with communication disabilities a voice and a way to live more fulfilled, integrated and independent lives. Three brand new products from Tobii are launched to the European market at the RehaCare Trade Show in Düsseldorf, Germany, starting today.

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• Tobii collaborates with a German University to develop a communication solution for symbol-users

  Tobii Technology has launched a brand new software application called Tobii Sono Lexis. Sono Lexis is an Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) software that offers grammar support and speech generation to non-literate people who use symbols in their communication.

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• Tobii strengthens its presence in the UK

  Tobii Technology is the market leader for eye controlled communication devices as well as for other solutions relating to Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC). Tobii Technology is strengthening its position in the United Kingdom, with the hiring of two individuals with extensive experience in the industry.

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• Tobii opens branch in China

  Tobii Technology continues its global expansion and opens a new branch in Suzhou, near Shanghai, in China. The branch will be the stepping stone for Tobii’s continued expansion in Asia.

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• Well attended grand opening event in China

  Tobii Technology has opened an office for product development and sales, as well as a production plant, in Suzhou, China. Many prominent guests attended the grand opening ceremony.

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• Tobii Studio 2 brings gaze analysis to new heights

  Stockholm, Sweden – August 24, 2009 – Tobii is pleased to announce the release of Tobii Studio 2.0 and the new unique benefits it brings to usability testing, market research, and psychology research.

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• Easily create and print page sets with the new Tobii SymbolMate

  Tobii SymbolMate is an AAC application for creating paper-based communication pages and educational material with symbols, text or photos. It allows for the creation of communication pages for AAC users and their static devices with pre-designed templates.

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• Tobii ATI Awarded accreditation from the Joint Commission

  The Joint Commission, the largest national health-care standards organization in the United States, has awarded Tobii ATI its Gold Seal of Approval. This independent voluntary accreditation confirms Tobii ATI’s position as an innovative leader in the assistive technology field with demonstrated compliance of standards for Durable Medical Equipment / Prosthetic and Orthotic Suppliers. (DMEPOS)

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• Tobii Communicator 4.3 released

  Stockholm, May 25, 2009 – Today Tobii Technology AB released an update of Tobii Communicator, an AAC software package for producing dynamic page sets for Speech Generating Devices (SGD) and other Windows based AAC devices.

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• Tobii Technology Raises EUR 16 million in Funding

  Stockholm 15th of May 2009 – Tobii Technology AB is raising a €16 million (MSEK 170) expansion capital from Amadeus Capital Partners, Northzone Ventures and existing investor, Investor Growth Capital.

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• Tobii ranked number three on Ahrens Rapid Growths Growth List

  Stockholm, Sweden – May 13, 2009 – Tobii is ranked number three on Ahrens Rapid Growth’s Growth List for sustainable and profitable growth.

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• Tobii has released Studio 1.5

  Stockholm, Sweden – May 11, 2009 – Tobii is pleased to announce the release of Tobii Studio 1.5 and the new unique benefits it brings to market research, usability testing and psychology research.

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• Tobii wins the INDUSTRIEPREIS 2009 (Optical Technologies Category)

  Frankfurt, Germany – April 22, 2009 – The Huber Verlag für neue Medien, (Huber Publishing House for New Media), has awarded Tobii Technology with the INDUSTRIEPREIS 2009 (Industry Prize) in the optical technologies category.

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• Nominated for Swedish Trade Council Award

  Stockholm, Sweden – March 30, 2009 – Tobii Technology has been appointed as one of the nominees to the Swedish Trade Council Award by the Swedish Trade Council. Strong development on exporting markets, profitability and strong development of its Swedish business are the main criteria that will be evaluated.

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• Tobii launches new HD widescreen Eye Tracker for large stimulus display

  Stockholm, Sweden – March 30, 2009 – Tobii Technology today announced its launch of a new widescreen Eye Tracker, bringing unique new benefits to the market research industry, usability testing and behavioral research.

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• Tobii presents the worlds first off-the-shelf eye tracking system for integration

  Stockholm, Sweden – March 3, 2009 – Today, at CeBIT in Hannover, Tobii presents a new embedded eye tracking system, sold off-the-shelf to volume customers for integration into a range of different applications. The Tobii Eye Tracker IS (Integrated System) represents a huge technological advancement and is the first system in the world that satisfies medium and mass market demands.

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• Tobii wins prestigious Golden Mouse Award as Swedish IT Company of the Year

  Stockholm, Sweden – February 18, 2009 – Tobii Technology announced today that it was named as a winner of the Golden Mouse Award in the category Swedish IT Company of the Year. The Golden Mouse Award is the most prestigious IT award in Sweden.

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• Tobii launches new AAC products

  Boston, January 28, 2009 – Today Tobii Technology AB announced its U.S. launch of nine new augmentative and alternative communication(AAC) products that give individuals with communication disabilities a voice and a way to live more fulfilled, integrated and independent lives.

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• Tobii signs global Eye Tracking agreement with Ipsos

  Stockholm, Sweden – January 27, 2009 – Tobii Technology today announced it had signed a global agreement with Ipsos Marketing for Eye Tracking hardware and software to be integrated into Ipsos’ Pack Evolution package testing system and other Ipsos research solutions.

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