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Technical Solutions has been developing amazing products since 1983. Our clients range from small startups to large Fortune 100 companies.

We use lean management techniques to help startups go from ideas, to prototypes, to Minimum Viable Products (MVPs), and on to fully-manufactured products. We help large corporations adopt agile techniques to increase their innovation capabilities and decrease their product time-to-market.

Innovative ideas help us think outside the box. Disciplined processes make sure we color within the lines.

Our Ventures

Vision-Assisted Package Retrieval

VAPR is an AI-powered vision and projection solution that transforms last-mile delivery operations. The system eliminates the need for drivers to sort packages by stop, read labels, or manually verify customer names and addresses — a projected green circle identifies exactly which packages belong to each stop. Over 1,000 vans were scheduled for deployment in Q1 2025.

Amazon

Pilot Bio/Environmental Monitor

SPYDR is a self-contained bio/environmental monitoring system for jet pilots, built entirely within the pilot's earcups. The system tracks biometric parameters including blood oxygenation, cerebral perfusion, body temperature, respiratory rate, and heart rate, as well as environmental data such as cabin pressure, temperature, and air quality. Technical Solutions designed all electronics and firmware and assisted across all project disciplines. Developed through DARPA and the Air Force.

Spotlight Labs

Adhesive Curing and Dispensing

Pulse is an Industry 4.0 platform for dispensing and curing adhesives. Its modular architecture lets customers produce a family of products ranging from desktop devices to PLC controls. A cloud interface enables data retrieval, remote updates, and real-time notifications, and continuous data analysis keeps the manufacturer-customer relationship running smoothly. The system integrates with the company's entire Pulse product line.

Henkel

Shape-Shifting Skis

Verispellis brings electronic intelligence to ski equipment with innovative material control that dynamically changes ski stiffness on demand. Skiers adjust the system via an onboard control or smartphone app, performance data is continuously collected, and the electronic module is both removable and rechargeable.

Verispellis

Robotic Angioplasty

We worked with Corindus to develop their CorPath Robotic Angioplasty medical device. CorPath provides physicians with precise control during the angioplasty procedure in an ergonomic control cockpit away from the radiation field.

Corindus

Augmented Reality

Magic Leap is an Augmented Reality device that solves the fundamental AR/VR challenge of vergence-accommodation conflict. Technical Solutions helped develop patents to launch Magic Leap's medical vertical. The venture attracted $50M in seed/A round funding, $542M Series B, and $793.5M Series C, reaching a $4.5B valuation.

Magic Leap
V-Flash Desktop 3D Modeler

3D Printing

3D Systems' V-Flash Modeler delivers exceptional quality hard-plastic parts for enhanced design at an affordable price. It combines the versatility typically found in more expensive 3-D printers with the convenience of an easy-to-use desktop printer.

3D Systems

Neuropathy Screening

Prosenex's Dynamic Neuroscreening Device (DND) provides simple and objective screening for peripheral neuropathy.

Prosenex
Instapak iMold Packaging Equipment

Foam Packaging Equipment

The Instapak iMold system creates engineered, pre-molded Instapak foam cushions for immediate use or to be transferred into storage bins for batching applications. Sealed Air's patented Foam Dispersion Technology guarantees cushion consistency and integrity by dispensing Instapak foam where it's needed most while eliminating material waste.

Sealed Air Corporation

Inflatable Packaging Equipment

Sealed Air's Fill-Air 1000® is an inflatable packaging system that fabricates and inflates protective cushions on-site, dramatically reducing packaging storage space. Technical Solutions designed the system with low-cost custom electronics and custom firmware.

Sealed Air Corporation
CardScan Business Card Scanner

Business Card Scanners

We enjoyed a long relationship with CardScan, working with them to develop several of their marketed business card scanners.

CardScan
ClariVein Vein Ablation System

Vein Ablation System

ClariVein is an alternative to Thermal Ablation for the treatment of venous reflex disease. The ClariVein device drives an infusion catheter that contains a rotating wire driven by a motor activated from a DC battery-powered handle. The system provides even, controlled irrigation of a treatment site for a physician-specified procedure with a physician-specified therapeutic fluid.

ClariVein
Perkin Elmer Liquid Chromatography System

Liquid Chromatography

The Series 200 UV/Vis detector and Series 200 Micro Pump are major components of Perkin Elmer's Series 200 High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC) system. The Series 200 UV/Vis Detector offers the highest sensitivity and outstanding linearity performance, even at extremely high or low concentrations. The Series 200 Micro Pump provides precision flow rate, accuracy, and retention time repeatability. It has precise high pressure gradient capabilities for microbore, narrowbore, LC/MS, and analytical applications.

Perkin Elmer
Cart Watch Golf Cart Tracking System

Golf Cart Tracking

Cart Watch is a state of the art electronic golf cart monitoring and control system that manages cart usage and helps decrease course maintenance costs. Digital signal processing (DSP) techniques are used in the communications module to decipher the digitally encoded system and warn the golfer (via an LCD display and buzzer) upon approaching restricted areas. Course Watch resides on a personal computer located in the course clubhouse running Microsoft Windows. When the cart's embedded database is uploaded to the Course Watch PC, course personnel are presented with graphical screens which may be analyzed to increase the course's speed of play or to penalize golfers for ignoring club rules.

Car Watch
Perkin Elmer DSC 8500 Calorimeter

Calorimetry

Perkin Elmer's DSC 8500 is a double-furnace DSC with a fast autosampler to provide fast and accurate calorimetry.

Perkin Elmer
DryVap Sample Preparation Device

Sample Preparation

Horizon Technology's DryVap device provides an automated process for the drying, evaporation, and concentration of extracts.

Biotage
Matrix Technologies Electronic Pipetting Console

Electronic Pipetting

Matrix Technologies' Programmable Electrapette Console pipettes fluids in fractions of a microliter increments by providing user-programmable control of motorized pumping "handles". An LCD screen displays menu selections and online help. Directory and file management is provided for user-defined pipetting programs.

Matrix Technologies
HDM Z1 CPAP Sleep Apnea Device

Sleep Apnea Device

HDM's Z1 Continuous Positive Airway Pressure ("CPAP") device is one of the smallest, lightest, and quietest CPAP sleep apnea devices on the market.

HDM
Protein Forest dP Fractionator

Protein Analysis

Protein Forest's dP Fractionator is a bench-top instrument used to enhance the sensitivity and performance of protein analysis techniques.

Protein Forest

Medical Training Device

We teamed with ARA's Vertek division and Virtual Heroes division to develop a medical syringe training device.

ARA Vertek
Intellipour Liquor Audit Spouts

Liquor Audit System

Intellipour Jr. electronic audit spouts are designed to replace ordinary free-pour spouts. There's no need for bartenders to push buttons or use any special readers. All they have to do is pour drinks. The system is wireless and unobtrusive. Intellipour Jr. spouts are rugged, washable, and last about a year with normal use and there's no need to change batteries.

Intellipour

Remote Key Device

Your phone is your key! Grant and revoke access to anyone, anytime, from anywhere without having to worry about cards, FOBs or PIN numbers – your phone does it all, even when networks are unavailable. VIZpin lets you provide convenient, secure access to anyone with a smartphone at the tap of a button.

Vizpin
Scentstories Scripted Scent Player

Scripted Scent Player

Scentstories is P&G's clever device that uses the sense of smell to tell a story just as a movie uses the plot. A CD-like disc with multiple scents sharing a common theme is played to create scent experiences such as a walk through the forest or a stroll down the shore.

Procter & Gamble
AirPad Game Controller

Game Controller

Airpad is a revolutionary video game controller that allows players to control the action on the screen with a simple move of the hand.

AirPad
Walchem Webmaster controller

Low-Cost, In-Field Web Server

Walchem's Webmaster is an in-field web server that provides remote connectivity to industrial equipment using a standard web browser. The system features built-in dial-out alarms, simultaneous remote and local access, and proprietary "Shoulder-Tap" technology. With over 300 units deployed in the field, Webmaster shares a standard telephone line — no dedicated IP address, DSL, or T1 required.

Walchem

Electronic Facial Muscle Stimulator

Clinical Creations' EFMS uses an "exercise glove" to deliver therapeutic electrical stimulation. Designed with low-cost electronics and no microprocessor, the device has a 510(k) submission in process and was developed for a nationally acclaimed physician featured in a series of PBS television programs.

Clinical Creations