This Monday, Martina Toponarski of the Boston Redevelopment Authority’s LifeTech Boston program and I ventured into the District for some coffee with our newest Life Sciences neighbor, NYX Devices. Roommates and recent MIT grads, Thomas Lipoma, Carson Darling, and Pablo Bello (pictured above), originally hail from California, Washington State, and Miami respectively. The summer of their Junior year at MIT, they all had internships in San Fransisco and decided then that they didn’t want to work for someone else; they wanted to create their own business.

The next semester, they enrolled in a Medical Device class and were connected with Dr. Matt Bianchi,  a Neurologist at Mass General Hospital’s Sleep Lab. Together, they developed the Somnus sleep shirt which has on it a device that measures one’s breathing to determine how well one is sleeping. (Somnus is the son of Nyx, primordial goddess of the night).

They graduated from MIT this Spring and landed in their new 1,000 SF space at 319A in the Innovation District- already home to Barbara Lynch Gruppo, Mad Pow, Twelve Chairs and more (with a few more on the way!). Welcome home…

(The third image above is the view looking up in the elevator at 319A)