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Texas A&M University

Texas A&M University

The human touch is no stranger to interacting with nature. Feeling the grass beneath our feet or hand leaves behind a sense of relief and allows for individuals to just concentrate on touch. It is considered that gardening is therapeutic and is often seen as an activity in assisted living centers. Those who are unable to benefit from this activity, such as hospitalized children and the mentally and physically disabled are stripped of the leisure. Touchology is a series of interactive projects that evokes serenity by exploring the meditative quality of touch with plants (real or artificial) that can be accessible at home or indoors. Since Touchology projects keep all the necessary components in a small container, this can be placed anywhere at ease of the user and extend her experience with nature in a unique way. One of the Touchology projects, Flora Touch, utilizes a small potted plant and a base with the electronic components. It generates ambient audio-visualization responding to human’s gentle touch of a plant. Another project, Grass is also a touch responsive installation. Grass consists of a field of fiber optics that look like grass and electronic components including LEDs and speakers in a base container. Users can explore different nature sounds (water, wind, bird, and cricket) and LED lighting patterns projected on the tips of optical fibers by touch. Touchology investigates how touch-sensitive, interactive plants can generate an emotional attachment with the user and how the relationship affects their quality of life in different conditions. Since Touchology uses real and artificial plants, we carefully choose plants based on scientific evidences. Researchers found that gently rubbing leaves of thale cress plants between thumb and forefinger can activate defense mechanism in the plant, making it more resistant to Botrytis cinerea, the fungus that causes grey mold. We are trying to build reciprocal relationships between human and plant through touch. http://www.embodiedimmersion.com/?p=1529...

Puteko

Puteko

The colAR technology was originally developed at the HIT Lab NZ, and after receiving overwhelming positive feedback and awards at conferences around the world, Puteko Limited was founded to commercialize the technology. In addition to the original inventors and developers of the technology, the Puteko Limited staff also includes 3D modelers, marketing and administrators, as well as app developers, all working to create the best Augmented Reality coloring experience possible. Please contact us for more information. info@puteko.com...

CogniVu

CogniVu

Today a major transformation in computer vision is underway. Embedded vision, the requirement for small embedded platforms to ‘see’, is proliferating across a broad range of vertical markets. Cars that see and independently respond to traffic conditions, wearable devices to extend use of technology in our everyday life, smart phones that provide an augmented reality view of their surroundings to the user, gesture control of home entertainment devices, face recognition for access control, all of these are just a few examples of embedded vision driving new applications. However, as vision processing becomes more sophisticated, and as multiple vision functions are combined on single platforms, it is impossible with conventional processing architecture to meet real time performance requirements and keep within the power and size constraints of the embedded system. CogniVue’s revolutionary APEX Image Cognition Processor (ICP) core and vision toolkits allow developers to achieve >100x advantage in performance per power per area versus incumbent technologies, enabling the creation of previously implausible vision products. From dedicated hardware IP, code development tools and libraries, to algorithm development toolkit and application software demos, CogniVue enables its customers and partners to create or improve their embedded vision solution at all levels. CogniVue is innovating with vision, enabling new and revolutionary vision-based applications, serving wearables, industrial and automotive markets. - See more at: http://www.cognivue.com/about.php#sthash.Uh2OVSXs.dpuf...

Kopin

Kopin

Kopin is a leading developer and provider of technologies and solutions that enhance the visual, verbal, audio, and head-gesture command capabilities of wearable headset products. Innovation is in our DNA. We are enabling a new tomorrow in which computing technology becomes a seamless extension of the human experience. Kopin’s technologies and solutions are available as components providing individual capabilities or as reference systems providing integrated solutions. For nearly three decades, Kopin’s scientists and engineers have created innovative technologies that have enhanced the way people see, hear, and communicate. Kopin has a long history of developing technologies required for wearable computing headsets for the military, consumers, or industry. Kopin has contributed to the development of head-mounted displays for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, created the Golden-i, a wearable headset reference design for industry, and collaborated on many wearable products with a range of companies including Vuzix, Motorola Solutions and Recon Instruments. Kopin has developed and commercialized game-changing technologies such as heterojunction bipolar transistors (HBT) which power billions of cellphones, and microdisplays which have brought vivid images to more than 30 million consumer electronics and military night vision devices. Today, Kopin is focused on helping its customers develop wearable headset systems more rapidly. Kopin’s technology portfolio of ultra-small displays, innovative optics, speech enhancement technology, head-gesture command, low-power ASICs, packaging, and system reference designs enable customers to accelerate the development of products for consumers, industry, and the military. Kopin has more than 200 global patents and patents pending in these areas....

JB Knowledge

JB Knowledge

Our mission is to provide world-class services and products to our clients, surpassing all expectations of the client-service relationship. Founded in 2001 by James Benham, father Jim Benham, and classmate Sebastian Costa, JBKnowledge, Inc. has offices across the western hemisphere and is headquartered in Bryan/College Station, TX. Our team of over 70 professionals, from strategy consultants to software developers to graphic designers, develop innovative, high quality information technology solutions for small, medium and large enterprises in the United States, Canada, Caribbean and Middle East. http://jbknowledge.com/...

Flyby Media

Flyby Media

We are changing the way people discover, capture, and share the moments that make life wonderful. At Flyby, we understand that the continued growth of social media is creating a deluge of content. Today’s mobile users have hundreds of friends online and share frenetic streams of content – photos, videos, social, and messaging across a mix of networks and applications. Daily content feeds are becoming longer and less personal, and the ratio of signal to noise is becoming smaller and smaller. New apps continue to emerge offering new twists or incremental improvements; but they change little. With so much digital overload, how do you drive real signal through the noise? We believe the answer lies in the ability to share media only when relevant and contextual to the world around you, and not through real-time digital fire hoses. What if there was a way to combine the benefits of digital with the higher emotional connection of communicating in the real world? What if there was a way to deliver signal when it really matters? Our team of mobile industry entrepreneurs and computer vision scientists is dedicated to building exactly this: a new social platform that connects your physical world with digital content. The result is a more contextual way to communicate and share with your friends. A platform that leverages digital media to elevate, rather than replace, your real-world experiences. We introduced Flyby Messenger to the App Store in January of 2014. But some of our most exciting initiatives are still incubating behind the scenes, where our computer vision team is working to link “real life” to our mobile and wearable devices. We are currently working to develop new capabilities in the fields of mobile messaging, image recognition, sensor fusion, large-scale SLAM (simultaneous localization and mapping), and indoor navigation. We are also partnered with Google on Project Tango, to which we contribute as a key R&D partner. If any of these areas are also of interest to you, please contact us. We’d love to talk. http://www.flybymedia.com/...

EPRI

EPRI

The Electric Power Research Institute, Inc. conducts research, development and demonstration (RD&D) relating to the generation, delivery and use of electricity for the benefit of the public. An independent, nonprofit organization, we bring together scientists and engineers as well as experts from academia and the industry to help address challenges in electricity. Our work spans nearly every area of electricity generation, delivery and use, management and environmental responsibility. We provide both short- and long-term solutions in these research areas for the electricity industry, its customers and society. The depth and breadth of our work is outlined in our 2014 Research Portfolio. http://www.epri.com/...

Neurosky

Neurosky

Biosensor Innovation for Next-Generation Body and Mind Health NeuroSky is breaking the boundaries of body and mind monitoring and analysis for consumer-facing, wearable technology products. Our innovative biosensors are used in hundreds of products, brought to market by our partners, for body and mind health. These solutions capture, quantify and reveal unique health and wellness insights and give millions of people the ability to monitor and improve the performance body and mind. http://neurosky.com/...

NXP

NXP

Secure Connections for a Smarter World The electronics industry is being driven by four mega trends that are helping shape our society: Energy Efficiency, Connected Devices, Security and Health. Connecting to these trends and enabling Secure Connections for a Smarter World, NXP Semiconductors N.V. (NASDAQ: NXPI) creates solutions for the Connected Car, Cyber Security, Portable & Wearable and the Internet of Things. Through our innovations, customers across a wide variety of industries – including automotive, security, connected devices, lighting, industrial and infrastructure – are able to differentiate their products through features, cost of ownership and/or time-to-market. http://www.nxp.com/...

U. C. Berkeley

U. C. Berkeley

The University of California, Berkeley is a public research university located in Berkeley, California. The university occupies 1,232 acres on the eastern side of the San Francisco Bay with the central campus resting on 178 acres.Berkeley is the flagship institution of the 10 campus University of California system and one of only two UC campuses operating on a semester calendar, the other being UC Merced. Established in 1868 as the result of the merger of the private College of California and the public Agricultural, Mining, and Mechanical Arts College in Oakland, Berkeley is the oldest institution in the UC system and offers approximately 350 undergraduate and graduate degree programs in a wide range of disciplines. Berkeley has been charged with providing both “classical” and “practical” education for the state’s people. Berkeley co-manages three United States Department of Energy National Laboratories, including the Los Alamos National Laboratory, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory for the U.S. Department of Energy. Berkeley faculty, alumni, and researchers have won 72 Nobel Prizes (including 30 alumni Nobel laureates), 9 Wolf Prizes, 7 Fields Medals, 15 Turing Awards, 45 MacArthur Fellowships, 20 Academy Awards, and 11 Pulitzer Prizes. To date, UC Berkeley and its researchers are associated with 6 chemical elements of the periodic table (californium, seaborgium, berkelium, einsteinium, fermium, lawrencium) and the Berkeley Lab has discovered 16 chemical elements in total – more than any other university in the world. Berkeley is a founding member of the Association of American Universities and continues to have very high research activity with $652.4 million in research and development expenditures in 2009. Berkeley physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer was the scientific director of the Manhattan Project that developed the first atomic bomb in the world, which he personally headquartered at Los Alamos, New Mexico, during World War II. Faculty member Edward Teller was (together with Stanislaw Ulam) the “father of the hydrogen bomb”. Known as the California Golden Bears (often shortened to “Cal Bears” or just “Cal”), the athletic teams are members of both the Pacific-12 Conference and the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation in the NCAA. www.berkeley.edu...

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