New Technology Showcase
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 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 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 |
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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.