EXPO
STANFORD COOL PRODUCT
EXHIBITOR PROFILE BOOK
Cool Product Expo 2013
Wednesday, April 10, 2013 12 – 6 PM
Arrillaga Alumni Center, Stanford University
Free and open to the public
cpx.stanford.edu @cpx_2013
Transportation / Urban Mobility Sensors / Internet of Things Industrial / Interaction Design
Boosted Boards Automatic Artiphany / Daqri
BRD Motorcycles Click and Grow Black + Blum
Faraday Bikes Electric Imp Joey Roth
Freebord Lapka Lunatik by MNML
ICON 4x4 Misfit Wearables Stamen Design
Oru Kayak Variable Technologies / Node Tactus Technology
Revolights zSpace
Solar Impulse
Telepresence / Robotics Imaging Music
Double Robotics Impossible Instant Lab Incident gTar
Revolve Robotics Instacube Outdoor Tech.
Motrr Projecteo Samplr
Bartendro by Party Robotics Radian by Alpine Labs TouchTunes
Stealth HD Woo Audio
Consumer Products Games Other
Nomiku Gamestick by PlayJam Celluon
Clean Bottle Game Golf by Active Mind Goal Zero
Back to the Roots Sifteo Ideapaint
Tegu Toys
Our project involves the compelling intersection of art and technology.
We've combined Artiphany's exquisite animations with Daqri's 4D
Augmented Reality technology to produce a stunning new expression of
what a traditional greeting card can be.
A traditional paper card becomes a target which once recognized by the
app launched on your mobile device, produces an interactive cinematic
quality experience for the recipient. The animation appears to exist within
the same physical reality as the user. The user can interact with the
animated narrative using the touch screen functionality of the mobile
device.
Daqri is a group of free-thinking artists, scientists, and engineers who are
passionate about empowering people through advanced visual
interfaces and mobile technology experiences. Daqri 4D is the first ever
cloud-based solution for dynamically delivering, managing and measuring
immersive and tactile augmented reality experiences on mobile devices.
The Automatic Link talks to your car's onboard computer and uses
your smartphone's GPS and data plan to upgrade your car's
capabilities. Every Link works with both iPhone and Android.
Drive Smarter, Save Big - Automatic helps you make small
changes in your driving habits that can lead to huge savings on
gas over time
Automatic Calls for Help in a Crash - Crash Alert looks out for you
by automatically notifying 911* with your location in a crash. For
free.
Keep Your Engine Healthy - Automatic connects to your car's
onboard computer to decipher that little 'check engine' light and
explain exactly what's wrong.
Never Forget Where You Parked - Automatic always remembers
where you parked, so you don't have to.
Inspired by the idea of turning waste into wages & fresh, local
food, founders Alejandro Velez & Nikhil Arora experimented in
ultimately growing one test bucket of tasty oyster mushrooms
on recycled coffee grounds. With that one bucket, some initial
interest from Whole Foods & Chez Panisse and a $5,000 grant
from the UC Berkeley Chancellor for social innovation, they
decided to forget the corporate route, and instead, become
full-time urban mushroom farmers!
We are an Anglo-Swiss partnership formed in 1998 and based in
London, the European heart of design. Our designs have won
numerous awards and are sold through selected stores
worldwide.
We are driven by giving each design its own unique character
and soul. Our brief is to create functional products that will charm
and entertain. We are passionate about design and realize that a
true black + blum product is always a joint input of our
personalities. Hopefully you will get as much enjoyment
from black + blum products as we got from designing them.
Boosted Boards are the world’s lightest electric
vehicles.
The ultra-light powertrain gives you the power to
climb San Francisco hills. The regenerative braking
system gives you control riding downhill and in
crowds. The intuitive, wireless remote gives you
confidence to quickly learn to ride.
It’s not only fun to ride but an excellent last mile
vehicle that’s light and small enough to carry into
the office, onto the train, or in the trunk of a car.
In the $50B global motorcycle market, BRD is leading
the shift to electric by building better motorcycles -
faster, easier, prettier and cheaper than their gas
equivalents. Our first product, the RedShift, has been
called "the first electric to demonstrate a clear
superiority over its gas predecessors.“
BRD wants to make average riders good and good
riders great. We chose electric because nothing
connects your right wrist to the rear tire like an
electric motor. The throttle response can be perfect,
the torque is endless, and you don't have to "reset"
traction with each gearshift.
Celluon - the undisputed forerunner in portable input
applications, has its headquarters in Seoul, Korea - the country
renowned for its technological prowess. Celluon is highly
involved in the research and development process, as well as
the manufacturing of the projection keyboard module and
final products using the 3D Electronic Perception Technology
(EPT).
Through the integration of this unique, patented technology,
Celluon presents the revolutionary answer to the demands of
the highly mobile society today - the Projection Keyboard.
Known also as the 'virtual keyboard', 'laser keyboard' or
'optical keyboard', it is undoubtedly, the epitome of 'true data
input', with high precision and quality surpassing all existing
applications.
With the Clean Bottle, the days of trying in vain to wash out
that funk at the bottom of your bottles are gone. Cleaning
and drying are easy. Clean Bottle features a patent-
pending, leak-proof, screw-off bottom. The bottle also
features a unique square design that prevents the bottle
from rolling away.
Double is the simplest, most elegant way to be
somewhere else in the world without flying there. The
minimalist design and intuitive touchscreen controls
allow you to freely move around without
inconveniencing others.
You can stay at eye level, whether sitting or standing,
by adjusting your height remotely, which makes
conversations fluid and real. Retractable kickstands will
automatically deploy to conserve power when you are
not moving around. Efficient motors and lightweight
design give Double the ability to last all day without
recharging the battery.
Electric Imp makes it simple to bring the Internet to your
devices. With connectivity you can empower your devices
with intelligence, customization, and convenience – the
possibilities are endless.
Our solution unifies the imp, a powerful wifi-connected
module, with software and connectivity in the imp Cloud, so
you can build rich services and design awesome products
without having to deal with the heavy-lifting of building and
maintaining a scalable, reliable and secure connectivity
solution. Electric Imp also offers the simplest solution for
configuring WiFi with BlinkUp, using optical signals sent from a
smartphone’s screen to bring a device online.
Faraday Bicycles is a new company dedicated to
revolutionary bicycle innovation and design. We are
engineers, designers, and industry veterans who
passionately believe that better bikes make a better
world. Faraday’s powerful electric assist lets you feel
like you’re riding downhill, with a tailwind, on the best
day of your life. Cape not included.
The Faraday Porteur looks and feels like a premium
city bike, but it performs in a class of its own. Feel like
a champion … without looking like a dork.
We started out wanting to snowboard all year,
wherever and whenever we wanted. And so, we
designed a board that gave riders the control of a
snowboard on pavement. As Freebord has
evolved, so has our goal: bring as much control as
possible to riding on pavement. Our riders can
carve, slide, slow down and stop whenever they
want. They can go as fast or as slow as they want.
They can bomb the steepest of streets or ride
mellow cruisers; hit big open roads or the
narrowest of sidewalks. On a Freebord, riders have
the control they need to ride what they want and
how they want.
Originally developed as a solution for computer
musicians to make music with a guitar, the first gTar
prototypes were developed in a garage in Cupertino,
CA. As Incident grew our team spent short periods of
time in various work spaces, including a renovated
icelandic ferryboat in San Francisco's Mission Bay,
before settling into our current office in San Francisco.
GAME GOLF allows you to see your game, share your game,
compare your game and compete like never before. With our
wearable technology and our available everywhere software you will
change the way golf is experienced. This will be the most fun you've
ever had on and off the golf course.
GAME is designed to be easy. Really easy. With the GAME product,
you receive a GYG device and a set of club tags, one for each club
in your bag.
Setup is simple—pop a tag onto each of your clubs and you are
ready to go. When you're ready to play, put the GYG device on your
belt and hit the course. Whenever you take a shot you just "tag" the
club against the GYG on your hip and go. With that, your game is
completely recorded. Every shot. Seamlessly.
GameStick is the world’s most portable TV games
console. This Android-based device plugs directly
into a TV's HDMI slot and comes with a fully
featured Bluetooth controller - ready to go right
out of the box. When on the move, the two
combine into a single unit, putting hundreds of
big-screen games directly into the pocket.
Goal Zero is the industry leader for portable power. Born out of the
desire to empower people everywhere, Goal Zero’s solar products
are designed to give you the freedom to go anywhere, regardless
of battery life. Our products are developed, tested and proven in
the harshest climates, from pole to pole, to ensure your gear can
go the distance. From cellphones to refrigerators, and everything
in between, Goal Zero keeps you connected and powered up in
any situation.
The first Goal Zero prototype was created to bring reliable,
portable energy to the war-torn people of the Democratic
Republic of Congo (DRC). Today we work hand-in-hand with TIFIE
Humanitarian (Teaching Individuals and Families Independence
through Enterprise), not only to provide access to portable power,
but to create opportunities for a better life.
ICON is designed by Jonathan Ward. The concept for ICON
was born in response to the collector market, as demands
and expectations on classic cars grew to expect modern
performance married to classic styling.
Today, the ICON, is a vehicle without peers for a journey
without boundaries. Classic styling, modern performance,
and timeless utility. Without the support of enthusiasts and
patrons like yourself, such an extreme expression of design
and utility would never have been possible.
IdeaPaint, Inc creates products that accelerate innovation. We
improve the way people work and the way they work together,
helping them collaborate more effectively, be more creative and
ultimately get better results. Our signature product, a premium dry
erase paint, is proven on the walls of the world’s most innovative and
successful companies. IdeaPaint transforms virtually anything into a
smooth, dry-erase surface, giving customers the space they need to
fully explore their big ideas.
IdeaPaint is widely recognized as the originator of high performance
dry erase paint, and has been celebrated by the likes of The Wall
Street Journal, Mashable, Fast Company and CNBC as a tool that
has a profound impact on the process, experience and outcome of
bringing ideas to life. It’s advanced chemistry, but profoundly low-
tech.
Your digital images transformed into real instant
photographs. That’s impossible, right?
Right! We are Impossible and we love instant
photography. We love it so much, we resurrected the last
Polaroid factory in order to save instant film for the future.
If you've ever held a Polaroid SX-70 in your hand, you
probably understand. It's such an amazing piece of design
and the photos it makes are different from any other
camera - unique and magical. But even instant film
aficionados like us take a lot of pictures with our iPhones,
so we wanted to find a way to turn those digital iPhone
images into true instant photos.
Well … we invented it. The Impossible Instant Lab!
Instacube is the living canvas for your Instagram and
Facebook photos. Finally liberated from your smart
devices, Instacube passively streams the candids of
your friends, family and favorite people to you
throughout the day. Photos are streamed in real-
time, wirelessly at three times the size of the average
smart phone.
Joey Roth designs products to articulate the beauty of everyday rituals. He combines simple
functionality with honest, unfinished materials that become more personal as they take on a
patina of use. He’s especially interested in designing tools for ephemeral experiences, at the
intersection of technology and craft.
Lapka is a tiny, beautifully designed personal environment
monitor that connects to your phone to measure, collect
and analyze the hidden qualities of your surroundings.
Lapka’s precise sensors respond to the invisible world of
particles, ions, molecules and waves. But Lapka doesn’t just
quantify what it measures. You get results that are specific
to where you are.
On the street, at the office, inside a child’s bedroom, or on
an airplane: the Lapka app compares its readings to
average guidelines for each individual environment. You
can collect snapshots of your comfort throughout the day
to create a diary or share with the world around you.
LUNATIK emerged from disruption. It was founded on taking risks,
making the improbable possible and listening to the crowd.
LUNATIK designs premium products that transform and enhance
your mobile, digital life.
LUNATIK burst into the spotlight in November, 2010 when designer
Scott Wilson launched TikTok+LunaTik Watch Kits for the iPod nano
on Kickstarter, long before the platform was widely utilized by
designers. The TikTok project raised a record-breaking $1M in 30
days, launching LUNATIK as a global brand overnight and
‘kickstarting’ the DIY product development revolution for designers
and entrepreneurs around the world. The crowd-funding pioneers
are now 3 for 3 on Kickstarter, making the LUNATIK brand a
disruptive success on many levels.
LUNATIK is designed by Scott Wilson + MNIMAL.
Galileo is an iOS-controlled, robotic motion platform
for iPhones and iPod Touches with infinite spherical
rotation capability. Just swipe your finger on the
screen of your iPad or other iOS device and Galileo
reacts, orienting your iPhone or iPod Touch
accordingly.
With applications in areas of photography,
cinematography, social networking, and video
conferencing, Galileo gives iOS devices endless
possibilities of remote-controlled motion.
Misfit Wearables is inventing and manufacturing highly
wearable products.
Their first product is the Shine, an elegant activity monitor.
Top chefs all around the world are cooking other-
worldly delicious dishes with help from a secret
weapon. It's called an immersion circulator, which
sounds fancy, but it's a simple process that uses
precise heat to create perfect dishes. These
machines have typically been too complicated and
expensive for home cooks. With Nomiku, we believe
we can bring this essential tool into the food lover's
kitchen and it will completely change the way
people cook forever.
The Oru Kayak is an incredible, high-performance boat
that folds out of a compact case. Inspired by origami,
this innovative kayak transform quickly, easily— and
almost magically. Stash it in a trunk, check it on a plane,
stow it aboard a sailboat, or hike it in to remote waters.
It’s full size (12' long), super light (25 lbs), and quick to
assemble (5 min). On the water it’s fast, stable, and
handles incredibly well.
The Oru Kayak makes the wonder and discovery of the
great outdoors more accessible: easy foldability
transforms boating from a special occasion to anytime,
anywhere.
Outdoor Tech® is a design-focused accessory brand
blending fashion and technology with the outdoors and
action sports. From the Turtle Shell rugged boom box to
the Chips helmet audio integration, wireless audio is the
signature line of the brand, but it’s the potentially iconic
logo, the Yowie®, that is most recognized by diehards
and casual fans alike.
Based in Los Angeles and founded in 2010 by Caro
Krissman and Mike Krisztal, Outdoor Tech’s mission is to
design and create stylish, functional outdoor accessories
that you probably want. Resembling Australia’s version of
Big Foot, OT’s logo is also the namesake of its multi-
functional headwear collection, The Yowie®.
Party Robotics has designed Bartendro, a precision cocktail
dispensing machine. It's fast, portable and leaves no mess.
It was designed to make drink-making fun and easy to
experiment with. It's perfect for parties and events, and
may have a future home in commercial establishments. The
interface can be pulled up on any device with a
web-browser and allows for many types of adjustments. A
perfect drink is only two taps away. The product is an open-
source platform and it's components are modular and
expandable. We're excited to see what the community
comes up with.
Projecteo is a tiny Instagram projector. It uses wheels of
35mm slide film you make online and each one holds nine
photos. Whether they're of your best friends, that holiday
last summer or good old pictures of cats, just pop them into
Projecteo, focus by twisting the lens barrel and sit back to
enjoy your slideshow.
Radian is a remarkably powerful, yet wonderfully simple
smartphone-controlled device that lets you take stunning
panning and tilting time-lapses with your dSLR camera or
smartphone (in conjunction with another time-lapse app).
With our free iOS/Android/web app, simply upload the
desired time-lapse settings to Radian, unplug, and let Radian
do the rest. From time-lapses of sweeping landscapes to
stormy clouds to busy street corners, the possibilities are
limitless.
Radian is small, rugged, weather-resistant, and can handle
anything you throw at it. It can rotate side-to-side. It can tilt
up and down (with optional L-bracket). It can dynamically
speed up and slow down. And if you have a Canon dSLR,
you can change exposure to capture sunrise and sunset. You
name it. With our app, the sky is the limit.
Our goal at Revolights is to make cyclists on the road
more visible while giving them the functionality they
need. Traditional bike lights focus heavily on forward
path illumination, use only a small blinking red light for
rear visibility and provide little to no side visibility. This
leaves cyclists vulnerable and drivers straining to see
them.
Our approach is different. The Revolights bike lighting
system consists of “smart” rings of LEDs which attach to
your wheels and synchronize to your speed to provide
forward path illumination, a huge increase in 360-
degree visibility and an actual brake light. See and be
seen.
KUBI is a robotic desktop tablet stand that helps
people who use video calling look around and
physically interact with others remotely through simple
web-based motion controls. Remote users can control
their video feed by panning and tilting the tablet to
adjust where they look, following the action, thus
bringing far-end camera controls to tablets.
KUBI distills the value of costly telepresence solutions to
90% of the functionality with the ability to look around
a room at less than 10% of the cost, making it more
accessible to small and medium size businesses and
consumers alike.
Samplr is a new musical instrument for the iPad that works by interacting directly with the audio
waveforms. Explore sounds, melodies and texture using the different play modes and create
your own music compositions with the gesture recorder.
Sifteo enchants everyday objects with a little bit of
magic. And that magic is the magic of interactivity.
There is a sea of change happening in the
computer interface — the book that can be any
book, the pen that remembers what you wrote, the
wall that displays anything you want.
Solar Impulse is an innovative project leveraging
technological prowess and the spirit of adventure. It was
launched in 2003 by a visionary and an entrepreneur,
Bertrand Piccard and André Borschberg.
Solar Impulse completed its first 26-hour flight through the
night in 2010 and the world’s first intercontinental
flight connecting Europe to Africa in 2012. For 2013, Solar
Impulse’s HB-SIA prototype is eager to participate in a
new challenge: the celebrated coast-to-coast crossing
of the United States, San Francisco to Washington D.C.
and New York City. This year’s Across America mission is
scheduled to kick-off starting May 1st, flying from San
Francisco to the nation’s Capital and the Big Apple, with
2-3 stopovers on the way.
Stamen has established a reputation for its expertise in
creating compelling interactive design and data
visualization projects. The studio works with a surprising
and growing range of clients: financial institutions, artists
and architects, car manufacturers, design agencies,
museums, technology firms, political action committees,
and universities.
Stamen’s most famous work includes Crimespotting, an
interactive map for understanding urban crime;
Cabspotting, as exhibited at MoMA; its high-granularity
trading data for NASDAQ; and the interactive maps
from maps.stamen.com
Stealth HD is a San Francisco-based software company that is creating the world’s finest
panoramic video. The company provides the software-processing platform that enables the
production and viewing of panoramic video systems (up to 360°) using off-the-shelf camera
hardware.
Tactus Technology is the developer of a new tactile user
interface for touch-screen devices. Tactus provides a
new dimension of user interface with a fundamentally
unique solution: application-controlled, completely
transparent physical buttons that rise up from the touch-
screen surface on demand. With the buttons enabled,
users can push and type or rest their fingers as they
would with any physical button or keyboard. When the
buttons are disabled, they recede into the screen,
becoming invisible and leaving a smooth, seamless flat
touch-screen with maximum viewing area.
Tactus is demonstrating the world's first fully-integrated
dynamic touchscreen tablet. This 7" tablet showcases
the Tactus tactile touchscreen technology and
introduces an entirely new category of product made
possible through the Tactus morphing tactile surface.
In 2006, Tegu co-founder Chris Haughey returned from
Honduras with a vision to create a for-profit business that
would have a transforming effect on the lives of Hondurans.
Four years later, not only has Tegu electrified the toy market
with the introduction of its magnetic wooden blocks, but, in
doing so, Chris and his brother Will have delivered on their
commitment to make a lasting difference in Honduras and to
its economy. With 100 factory workers and 120,000+ trees
planted to date, this toy company is on a roll.
TouchTunes brings the world's most innovative technologies
to social venues and has become the largest interactive
entertainment platform in North America. The company
provides entertainment and marketing solutions to over
57,000 bars and restaurants nationwide. Since TouchTunes
introduced the first digital downloading, pay-for-play
jukebox in 1998, the network has become the largest of its
kind with almost a billion songs played in 2012.
The TouchTunes mobile app allows users to find locations nearby and
control the music experience directly from their phones. Since launch, it
has been downloaded over 1.3 million times. Recently, the company
re-imagined the jukebox as a multi-application platform that now
services the iconic experiences of karaoke and photobooth.
Founded by Dr. George Yu, CEO, we are a team of gadgeteers,
spearheading new technology and developing new gadgets
that can add levels of simplicity, function, and wonder to
everyday life. Based in Chattanooga, TN, Variable Technologies
exists to birth the brainchildren of Dr. Yu and his team. Started in
a living room, we’ve worked with NASA and the Department of
Homeland Security.
Our first product, NODE, exists to sense and measure the world
around you. A single device can serve as a remote flashlight,
monitor the immediate climate, measure motion, and detect
temperature at a difference. Before long, NODES will work
together to form networks of live sensor data.
Manufacturer of the finest high-end audio products.
Designed by expert electrical engineers, made in the U.S.A.
Specializing in high-end tube amplifiers.
zSpace is an immersive, interactive hardware
and software platform for developers and users
interact in a true 3D holographic-like
environment.
By blending the physical world with a sensory-
rich virtual world where people can naturally
and intuitively manipulate and navigate,
zSpace revolutionizes the way people learn,
play and create.
