Zthere ~ Smartfone for Distance Demo & Collab

Nice to see Scott Kirsner's Innovation Economy piece Zthere turns smartphones into a collaborative tool about newco founded by MIT alum entrepreneur Matthias Wagner and Dan Ostrower. Kirsner quotes Ostrower...

"The idea was born out of frustrations that Matthias and I have had during years of hardware development and entrepreneurship. For example, flying people to Asian manufacturers to solve problems we felt there should be a way to solve remotely. ...We started asking ourselves, 'How could you show a tech in a factory how to use a thermal camera without sending him to training and without having someone next to him showing him what to do?'"

Check out the rest plus view the embedded demo video showing how to voice-annotate pictures or collaborate live-linked...