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Kinarm: after 20 years, coming together under one brand

Posted on Jun 27, 2019

To our valued Kinarm Lab users, collaborators and followers,

Today, June 27, 2019 is the day we announce our new company name: Kinarm.

It has been nearly 20 years since the publication of the first paper disclosing the novel instrument invented by Dr. Stephen Scott of Queen’s University at Kingston to enable his own research program.  KINARM, or Kinesiological Instrument for Normal and Altered Reaching Movements, has since spawned hundreds of research articles, not just by Scott LIMB Lab, but also by the more than 95+ Kinarm labs around the world.

Last January, we surveyed many of our current users for your feedback and asked you: what name do you know us by?  The answer was simple and resounding: Kinarm is how we are known.  Thus started a process to rethink our brand and today we announce the first milestone in that process.

As of today, our company is united with our core product under one name: Kinarm.

We are also introducing our new logo!

The Kinarm wordmark takes its inspiration from the common paradigm of our products and the solution they provide to addressing your basic and clinical research questions on the brain.  It is inspired by neurons connecting to each other, and a user holding the Kinarm End-Point handle or arm in the Kinarm Exoskeleton, and reaching their arm to perform tasks.
The uppercase “A” is taken from the original KINARM logo, and creates a precision point representing our core values of precision and scientific rigor. The reaching arm of the “K” could be interpreted as a magnifying glass searching for answers.

Legally, we remain incorporated as BKIN Technologies Ltd., and thus you may notice the BKIN name used in legal statements and financial documents such as invoices.

What doesn’t change is our commitment to you, our customers.  You told us we are: “pushing the boundaries as leaders [with] comprehensive solutions [that are] precise; user-friendly for clinicians, and flexible for researchers.”

Thank-you for your trust; we will continue to deliver just that.

For the entire team at Kinarm,

Anne Vivian-Scott, President & CEO

 

Events Calendar

Posted on Oct 25, 2019

We love to demonstrate the benefits of Kinarm Labs and would love to see you at an upcoming meeting:

Upcoming Meetings Date Location Booth Number
MEDICA November 18 – 21, 2019 Messe Dusseldorf Hall 16, M37, Canadian Pavillion
KINARM Camp June 8-12, 2020 (tent) Kingston, ON  

 

Past Meetings Date Location Booth Number
International Brain Injury Meeting March 13-16, 2019 Toronto, ON #100
American Academy of Neurology Annual Meeting May 4-10, 2019 Philadelphia, PA #208 in Technology Hub
RehabWeek June 24-28, 2019 Toronto, Metro Toronto Convention Centre #620
Neuroscience 2019 (SfN Annual Meeting) October 17-24, 2019 Chicago, IL #1873
       
       

 

Win10 Compliance

Posted on Oct 11, 2019

Do NOT upgrade your Dexterit-E/GUI Computer to Windows 10!

We are aware that due to the deprecation of Windows 7, many IT departments are insisting that all computers connected to their network must run on Windows 10.

However, as the Dexterit-E computer is customized to run your Kinarm Lab, the Windows operating system cannot be upgraded to Windows 10 without adversely affecting your Kinarm Lab.

11-Oct-19 Update: We are creating an upgrade kit for your Dexterit-E computer that will be available by Jan-20. This upgrade will only be available for Dexterit-E Computer PN 13108 or 13950 (Advantech ‘silver box’ computer) and will include a dedicated video card (Win 10 does not support our required video performance.)

If you have an older ‘black box’ GUI computer, we suggest you either request a Dexterit-E computer upgrade or that you remove your Kinarm lab from the university’s network in order to meet their compliance requirements. Dexterit-E does not need an active connection to the internet to run.

Contact: support@kinarm.com or sales@kinarm.com for further support.

KINARM Camp 2019: We are at Capacity!

Posted on Jan 7, 2019

BKIN is pleased to announce that our 6th annual KINARM Camp, will be held Monday, May 13 to Friday noon, May 17, 2019 in Kingston, Ontario.

As of 24-Jan-19, the camp is full and registration has ended.  If you would like to be put on the waitlist, please email Anne at avivianscott @ bkintechnologies.com . 

The objective of the Camp is to provide focused training on Custom Task development for KINARM Labs. The five day agenda is tailored to Basic Researchers and will provide hands-on learning on the use of MATLAB Simulink and Stateflow to develop Custom Task Programs for the KINARM Lab. New users, graduate students, and post docs are all invited to attend. Clinical researchers with an interest in Custom Task development are also welcome to attend.

The preliminary agenda can be viewed here: KINARM Camp 2019.draft

Attendance is limited to 12 registrants, so please complete the registration form to hold your spot.

If you’re awaiting approvals, please complete the form nonetheless and note that your attendance is tentative.

2018 KINARM Campers

Attending RehabWeek?

Posted on Jan 7, 2019

Customers of BKIN Technologies can receive preferential registration rates for the upcoming RehabWeek conference in Toronto, June 2019.

In order to apply the membership discount, please proceed as follows:

  • Choose that you are a member of IISART during the registration process (https://www.rehabweek.org/registration/)
  • Enter the company-specific code IISART-BKIN-182584
  • When asked which conference you mainly plan to attend, choose INRS. This does not mean you cannot attend other conferences during the RehabWeek, but it helps to allocate resources.

Please feel free to share the code.

World Stroke Congress visitors: please reach out

Posted on Oct 23, 2018

To all of the wonderful people who we met at World Stroke Congress in Montreal,

Please reach out to us if you have not heard from us.  The lead retrieval application has mysteriously “lost” our last 1.5 days of scans.  We are working with them to hopefully recover the data, but for the moment, we are regrettably without your contact information.

We look forward to hearing from you,

Anne Vivian-Scott & Paul St. John

avivianscott@bkintechnologies.com