MIT Imaging Ventures ~ 2009 Finale Proposals

Tonight was our finale in MAS.964 Imaging Ventures, the translational ventures class I co-teach with Professor Ramesh Raskar at the MIT Media Lab. The participants explored the commercial consequences of cameras, displays, and visual computing generally. Several quite compelling emerging ventures blossomed, including:

• Seeing Machine -- Vision-assistance for "fixable" blindness;
• Bulbeon -- Digital projector + camera "delight bulbs";
• Mr Smarty Plants -- Home gardener "Plant ID" informatics;
• Mobisonics -- Ultrasound smartphone sensory-peripherals;
• Slow Display -- Living windows 4D simple, cheap images;
• Happy Crowd Interactive -- Group collab interfaces;
• EASY Alliance -- Open interface for elderly & disabled;
• MocaMobile -- Mobile phone enabled distributed diagnostics;

Extra congratulations to Quinn Smithwick and colleagues for their Seeing Machine which was awarded the $2,500 Leyfell award this past Monday night in the MIT IDEAS Competition as presented by Dr Tom Byrne!