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Saratoga, CA—April 18, 2025—2-Dooz announces the TALUS™ AI Mental Health Safety Model. The name TALUS is shorthand for Trained Artificial Logic Used for Safety.  The name is inspired by the talus, which is a small bone in the ankle that is instrumental for balance and that holds the weight of an entire body.  Likewise, TALUS AI is 2-Dooz’s foundational artificial intelligence (AI) model.  It serves as the core for a family of multimodal models, which target specific aspects of mental health access, assessment, and treatment.  

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Saratoga, CA—September 16, 2024—September is National Suicide Awareness Prevention Month.  The focus is on those who have been affected by suicide and to those who are currently struggling with thoughts of taking their own lives.  While deaths from suicide are pernicious across all demographics, certain groups, inclusive of current and former members of the military, fare much worse. Per the 2019 VA’s Suicide Prevention Annual Report, veterans are more than 1.5 times more likely to die from suicide than members of the general U.S. population.  

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Saratoga, CA—September 7, 2022—September is National Suicide Awareness Prevention Month; it brings focused attention to those who have been affected by suicide and to those who are currently struggling with thoughts of taking their own lives.   Suicide is a leading cause of death.  Every other second, someone, somewhere attempts to take their own life.  And tragically, the CDC estimates that one suicide death occurs every 11 minutes.  Read the full news release here, which describes 2-Dooz's aim to create technology-based solutions that help to prevent suicide for military veterans, under the guidance of the Veterans Affairs Suicide Prevention Advisory Board (VASPAB).

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Saratoga, CA – January 17, 2020 – 2-Dooz™, Inc., a pioneering incubator and accelerator for Emotive Internet products, announces its Make 100 J2 Mood Sensing Rings™ crowd funding campaign.  A limit of one hundred J2 Noir pre-retail rings are being offered during the campaign at a special price of $199 per ring, which is more than 90% off the suggested retail price of the Aquairius™ Platinum Mood Sensing Ring.  The campaign is scheduled to begin on Wednesday, January 22, 2020 on the Kickstarter platform and is expected to run through February 20, 2020.  Read full release here. 

Saratoga, CA—On Thursday, April 10, 2019, 2-Dooz™ successfully completed operational tests of its newest generation electronics subsystem (ES); the internal engine that drives the company’s family of Emotion Mood Sensing Rings™.  Dubbed the ESv2.x, the module comprises a new two-factor biosensor, a microprocessor, memory, Bluetooth® wireless connectivity, a faster wireless charging system and a new firmware release—to fuel the new hardware.  Read full release here. 

Saratoga, CA – September 29, 2017 – 2-Dooz™, Inc., an innovative incubator and accelerator for Emotive Internet products, announces its Emotion Mood Sharing Ring™ Crowd Funding Campaign. The campaign is scheduled to begin on Monday, October 2, 2017 on the Indiegogo platform and is expected to run through November 5, 2017.  The primary goal of the campaign is market validation.  A secondary objective is to secure funding to purchase beta test units, to accelerate the retail availability of the Aquairius™ Mood Sharing Rings.  Moreover, funding will also be used to cover upfront components, tooling, test equipment, and apps development costs.   Read more here.