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New Technology Showcase

The Sharper Image
www.sharperimage.com
650 Davis St.
San Francisco, CA 94111
Sales 1-800-344-4444

The Sharper Image is a specialty retailer that is nationally and internationally renowned as a leading source of new, innovative, high-quality products that make life easier and more enjoyable. A significant and growing proportion of sales are of proprietary products created by the Company's product development group, Sharper Image Design. The Company operates 87 stores throughout the United States and mails millions of its award-winning catalogs each month. Additionally, the Company's products may be purchased on-line via its Internet store at sharperimage.com. The Sharper Image sells the Freeplay Handcranked Solar Radio, whose unique powering technology has great potential applications for a wide variety of mobile communications and computing devices.

Mslide.com
www.mslide.com
745B Portola Street
The Presidio
San Francisco, CA 94129
415-447-6073
info@mslide.com

Director of Business Development
Dan Hobin
415-447-6073
danh@mslide.com

Mslide.com is a FREE web based application for building and broadcasting music enhanced streaming slide shows, (also known as Mslides). At Mslide.com, users can select music from an online music library, upload up to 25 digital photographs, and sit back while the Mslide Builder Application builds their own music slide show and posts it to the Msldie.com high bandwidth streaming network. All for FREE. The technology behind the Mslide Builder Application is Mslide.com's proprietary high speed SMIL engine. SMIL (Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language) (pronounced "smile") enables the creation of multimedia presentations consisting of audio, video, images text, graphics, in a synchronized timeline. The Mslide SMIL Engine is a real-time authoring system with an easy to use web based front end. Mslide.com is privately funded and located in the Presidio of San Francisco

Reality Fusion
www.realityfusion.com
RealityFusion Inc
Santa Cruz, CA
831-420-0520
831-420-0523 (fax)
corpinfo@realityfusion.com

SDK Licensing, OEM & Bundling Opportunities
Max Montgomery
831-420-0580
tothemax@realityfusion.com
Employment Opportunities
831-420-0523
jobs@realityfusion.com

Reality Fusion enables users to manipulate objects on a computer in response to movements captured by a camera.  The company is developing a series of entertainment and edutainment titles based on its patent-pending video interaction technology. Reality Fusion is also establishing a standard for video camera-based applications by licensing its Software Development Kit (www.realityfusion.com/sdk.htm) to other developers. Reality Fusion was selected by Fortune Magazine as one of the top "12 Cool Companies for 1998" and is lead by executives from Lotus, Intuit, Borland, Delrina and Caere. The company is also licensing products to video camera manufacturers including Intel and Logitech. The company is headquartered in Santa Cruz, California. Corporate information is available at www.realityfusion.com.

Metricom, Inc
www.metricom.com
980 University Avenue
Los Gatos, CA 95032
408-399-8200
408-354-4028

METRICOM is a pioneer in designing, provisioning and operating digital networks and services for mobile users. Metricom's Ricochet mobile data services provide the industry's fastest data speeds, "always on" connections to the Internet and corporate LANs through wireless modems, flat-rate "all-you-can-use" pricing and no roaming fees. Ricochet lets users replicate their in-office experience remotely with corporate LAN access to applications such as email, databases, fax servers, and Intranet-based information.