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SIMBEX HONORED AS 2007 COMPUTERWORLD FINALIST FOR INNOVATION IN HEALTH CARE INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY.

Lebanon, NH - June 8, 2007 - Simbex LLC, a world-renowned research and development company in the field of active life improvement, was honored as a finalist in the Health Care category of the ComputerWorld Honors Program. The ComputerWorld Honors Program was established to identify and record the accomplishments of the people and organizations that have contributed to the betterment of society through the exceptional integration of information technology in their products and services. Simbex was recognized for its Head Impact Telemetry (HIT) system, a unique application of sophisticated database, internet and computer technology to measure, transmit, analyze and classify potentially injurious head impacts in contact sports like football.

"Each year, the Computerworld Honors Program seeks to recognize organizations, from a variety of sectors, for their ongoing efforts to utilize technology in order to benefit society," said Ron Milton, chairman, Board of Trustees, Computerworld Information Technology Awards Foundation and executive vice president, Computerworld. "We are proud to provide a platform to publicly acknowledge these contributions."

Nominated by partner Sybase for innovative use of the iAnywhere suite of database tools, the Head Impact Telemetry (HIT) system was evaluated against 10 criteria which resulted in the recognition of Simbex as a ComputerWorld Laureate. The Laureates were then screened by a panel of Chief Information Officers that selected the Simbex application as a finalist in the Health Care category of the Computerworld Honors Program.

"These ComputerWorld awards validate Simbex's mission to identify challenges to maintaining an active life following injury, illness or disability and to develop innovative solutions to address those challenges," said Richard Greenwald, Simbex's President and founder. "There has been tremendous media coverage in recent months related to the lack of understanding of concussion injury at all levels of sport - from children up to the professional level. This drives the Simbex team to improve the tools that identify the mechanism of sports-related brain injuries and to apply those lessons to improvements in sports equipment. The Simbex team is extending this research to identify and understand the mechanics of blast-related brain injury suffered by our soldiers."

Jeff Chu, VP of Engineering, represented Simbex at the black-tie reception held June 4, 2007 at the Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium in Washington, D.C.

About Simbex LLC
Simbex is a research and product development company whose core expertise is biomechanical feedback systems. The company develops marketable products and solutions from emerging technologies for active life improvement in the areas of prosthetics, sports injury prevention and rehabilitation. The founders are internationally recognized experts in their fields and have decades of experience in the area of functional evaluation and efficacy assessment of complex biomechanical systems for the sporting goods, orthopedic and exercise equipment industries. The research branch of the company is supported in part by grants from the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, and the Department of Defense. For further information about Simbex, visit the company's Web site at http://www.simbex.com.


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