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One such company is Klens ownPetcube a startup that sells interactive pet monitoring devices including a vet chat feature.
It has also kept developing its products, recently adding a GPS tracker to its offerings.
The company has completed over 160 projects for movies, music, and AAA video games to date.
(Respeecher delivered the audio files forObi-Wan Kenobito Skywalker Sound on the same day.)
So we executed on that, Klen says.
We also had some people joining the defenders.
Others have the means to help through hardware.
Replacing lost limbs with bionic hands
Human augmentation startupEsper Bionicscurrently makes prosthetic hands.
But its bionic product is a distant relation to the prosthetics of old.
Rather, it invokes something Neuromancer-esque.
Sensors located on the skins surface catch signals from the muscles and sends them to the robotic hand.
This then executes the function in the place of a human limb.
Believantseva is currently in New York, as the companys main market is in the US.
However, Esper Bionics manufactures its hardware in Kyiv.
When the full-blown war started, the majority of the team in Ukraine decided to stay in the country.
At first, Esper Bionics moved manufacturing to the western regions.
They expected us to be able to provide our products immediately to the soldiers who lost their hands.
We felt this great responsibility, and thats why we needed to move forward very fast.
The company also runs trainings for doctors in Ukraine on how to fit the devices.
We connect people who need prosthetic devices with our partner clinics in Ukraine or abroad, Believansteva says.
We provide the hand and they make these installations for free.
Many thousands of Ukrainians will require prosthetic limbs before the end of the war.
As such, cultural preservation takes on an additional dimension of defiance and resistance.
Tech is helping with that too.
Balbek Bureauis an internationally acclaimed, award-winning architectural firm from Kyiv.
Its social initiatives go under the project name of Re:Ukraine.
Re:Ukraine Vision is a project still in the R&D phase.
Reconstruction of private houses was pretty much left to the owners themselves.
And clearly it takes lots of time, money, decisions, resources, etc., Stopul says.
But this was not the only issue driving the project.
Electricity and internet connections are also luxuries.
Serdiuk of Respeecher says that the continuous missile alarms are manageable.
After nearly three years of war, one grows accustomed to the drill.
He acknowledges that unless there is a miracle, the war will take time.
He believes this mental change happened somewhere in 2023, after the first hard winter.
We saw the circle of the Sun.
We saw all the seasons of the war in our lives, he says.
Story byLinnea Ahlgren
Linnea is the senior editor at TNW, having joined in April 2023.
Dabbles in gaming and fitness wearables.
But first, coffee.
