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every day in this country, peoples lives are saved by amaze agmedical inventions. today we re highlighting some of the most innovativinnovative. here is fast company magazine, bob safe yen out with its top most innovative companies can of 2011. these are companies doing things about the future, b, you might want to work for these companies and invest in them when they become investable. i want to highlight three of those companies in the medical industry. bob, start with the sincardia, manufactures an fda approved completely artificial heart. 5.7 million americans suffer from heart failure. the total artificial heart is right now used as a bridge device for people who need heart
pump, a twice that goes into the left venerycle and helps to re venerycle and pump more blood so he would have more energy. he walks around with this implantable device, monitoring a system attached to his side and it s battery-powered. for a lot of folks that have severe congestive heart failure this device either leads to you a heart transplant or in many cases now we re see thank if you left the device in place for let s say a year, it helps the heart sort of rejuvenate. really? that s the hope here, is that even though he s in otherwise good health, he s 69 years old, he is a candidate for a heart transplant but they re very difficult to come by. maybe with this device you let the heart rest a little bit and then it becomes a little stronger. martha: i find that fascinating. when i was reading about this, it did say as you pointed out it can be sort of a bridge device that gets you through the period until you have a
here for the sale vent. one came from australia. he planned to about it for 14 of his friends and family at home that won t see ipads on sale for a while. another from denmark wanted to buy as many as he could. had to plan around the two per customer limit how many do you have? i have two for me and two for my friend. he wouldn t be here so power of attorney to get two for him. reporter: the big question of the day will be does the ipad live up to all of the hype? we ve been hearing from critics people talking this for months. now it is all about the consumer and whether or not people are going to be using this. it is a bridge device between laptop and smartphone. we have to wait and see we can tell you that technology experts are estimating 300,000 will pick one up on this launch weekend alone. by june they say about five million will have been sold.