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Recon Jet

Recon Jet

Nomination for Auggie Award: Best AR Hardware Creator: Dan Eisenhardt Organization: Recon Instruments =*=*=*= Description: Recon Jet delivers information instantly, effortlessly and unobtrusively via a microcomputer and high-resolution widescreen display. All this is mounted on a precision-engineered, fashionable pair of sunglasses on par with the best in the world. Recon has pioneered the miniaturization of affordable wearable technology since launching their first product, for snowsports, three years ago. With Recon Jet, the company is launching a faster, smaller, and more powerful new platform. Recon Jet includes: a dual core processor, dedicated graphics, Wi-Fi, ANT+, Bluetooth, GPS, HD camera, and a comprehensive suite of sensors. This makes Recon Jet a connected, standalone computing solution comparable in capability to a tablet or smartphone. Recon Jet runs an open platform with an SDK, which empowers developers to create native apps for any activity to run on the device. The company is already working with some of the top fitness companies and communities to develop on the platform. Where to find it: Recon Jet can be experienced for the first time at Google I/O on 15th May, 2013. Platforms: Glasses Additional Screenshots:...

Recon Instruments

Recon Instruments

Recon Instruments is the world leader in Heads-up Display (HUD) technology for athletes. Their multi-patent and patent-pending technology platform integrates a Heads-up Display with a state-of-the-art micro-computer. The HUD runs ReconOS, an operating system with an open SDK for developers, to allow for the creation of apps for a variety of sports, social and contextual cases. With worldwide distribution, including Apple stores, and partnerships with the best eyewear brands in the world, including Oakley, Recon continues to define and evolve the HUD category. For more information, visit www.reconinstruments.com. http://www.reconinstruments.com/...

Dan Eisenhardt

Dan Eisenhardt

Dan Eisenhardt, CEO of Recon Instruments, is recognised for bringing the first consumer Heads-up Display technology to the market. In so doing, he turned a technology, once only used by the military, into a fashionable, affordable solution for sports use. Recon Instruments has been showered with some of the world’s most coveted awards and accolades including CES Best of Innovation for Engineering and Design, an Edison Award, Innovation World Cup and a Distree EMEA Award. Dan’s passion for sport coupled with his background in engineering led him to co-found Recon Instruments with the mission to provide customizable, real-time information to athletes of all levels direct-to-eye in a unobtrusive way. With distribution that includes being sold in Apple stores worldwide, and partnerships with some of the best eyewear brands in the world, such as Oakley, Eisenhardt has kept Recon Instruments at the frontier of this technology and has been pivotal in evolving and growing the Heads-up Display category....