his father practiced optometry for 50 years.e partners with a nonprofit for lower income patients. take a selfie of you in your business and send it to us at yourbusiness@msnbc.com. or tweet it @. thank you so much for joining us today. we would love to hear from you. if you have any questions or comments, just want to say hi, e-mail us at yourbusiness@msnbc.com. please go to our website, openforum.com/yourbusiness. we posted all the segments from today's show plus a lot more. and we have even more for you on all of our digital and social media platforms as well. we look forward to seeing you next time. until then, i'm j.j. ramberg. remember, we make your business our business. ♪ so that's the idea. what do you think? i don't like it. oh. nuh uh. yeah. ahhhhh. mm-mm. oh. yeah. ah. agh. d-d-d... no. hmmm. uh... huh. yeah. uh... huh. in business, there are a lot of ways to say no. thank you so much. thank you. so we're doing it. yes. start saying yes to your company's best ideas. we help all types of businesses with money, tools a

his father practiced optometry for 50 years.e partners with a nonprofit that focuses on lower income patients who can't afford glasses. >>> why don't you pick up your smartphone, take a selfie of you and your business and send it to us or tweet it to @biz msnbc. include your name, the name of your business and the #your biz selfie. >>> thank you for joining us today. we'd love to hear from you. if you have questions or comments, just want to say hi, e-mail us at your business at msnbc.com. you can go to open forum.com/your business. we posted all of the segments from today's show plus a lot more for you. we have even more for you on all of your digital and social media platforms as well. we look forward to seeing you next time. until then, i'm jj ramberg. remember, we make your business, our business. so that's the idea. what do you think? hate to play devil's advocate but... i kind of feel like it's a game changer. i wouldn't go that far. are you there? he's probably on mute. yeah... gary won't like it. why? because he's gary.

these systems are becoming more and more common, especially in optometry. but the systems tend to be rather large. they take up a large table and cost tens, even hundreds of thousands of dollars. >> host: so what's your research doing? >> guest: so i'm working on taking that entire system and shrinking it down to the size of a chip, something that we could actually integrate maybe in all of our phones, possibly even on the clothes we wear. and allow us to not just monitoring ourselves, but also the environment around us in full three dimension. >> host: now, how far are we away from that technology? something there's a lot of challenges we still have to overcome, but we right now have all of the building blocks that we've kind of developed with the optical communication technology that bell labs has pioneered in the past. we're now repurposing this technology for this new tech anesthesiology. >> host: so in your work, is it completely health-related? is that where you're headed? >> guest: that's definitely where i'm headed, is health-related. really sensing

additionally, they have a medical services vehicles which park at the curb to provide mammogram and optometry services several times a month. similar to 7th and 8th street, where we identified places that had very specific types of loading needs, mostly very different from the residential, you know, standard residential use, we've provided curry senior center with a design modification so that they could continue using the curb for their very specific needs. >> okay. and i think -- i would imagine that the representative from 351 who gave his case very well would say he has a unique need because there's 100 children there, so this isn't your average hotel or something like that. this is a high-occupancy residents with some vulnerable folks at the other end of the age spectrum. >> to extend that point, the tenderloin, i think it's something on record as the density location in the city with families. so it's not just 351 turk that has families, it's also 201 turk that has ccdc development and it's a number of buildings along the corridor that have lots of children and families, and different p

there's a lot of salons, a lot of car repair, and for some reason, a lot of dental and optometry businesses tend to be out there. it has some vacant spaces that we've loved to see filled. when we did our study, we asked people do they do most of their shopping on the commercial district, and about 35% of the residents said yes, so can we have a better mix of retail that fills in those gaps so we can have more people answer yes to that question. so a neighborhood strategy -- there we go -- really is thinking about what is the vision for the future of the neighborhood. how do we have goals that allow us to realize that vision, how do we design strategies that we can implement on the ground that will lead us to those goals, and the most important thing, implementation. we have lots of things we want to see, but what can we move forward to actually implement. this takes ideas from the mission action plan 2020. so a timeline of activities that we're undergoing this year, it's really starting with relationship building, meeting one-on-one with community leaders, attending community meetings, so u