LOOKOUT is the first AI camera for safe boating. A multi-spectral 360-camera system is trained to spot debris, boats, buoys, people, whales, and wildlife. It gives captains confidence, especially in low-visibility conditions, crowded harbors, and unfamiliar waters. http://www.getalookout.com

Learn about the metaverse with MIT instructor, serial entrepreneur, and global innovation speaker David Rose.

Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design (CIID) is an international hub of creative minds. Its integrated structure creates a unique environment that encompasses world-renowned education, a cutting edge research group, an award-winning consultancy and a startup incubator. CIID create impact through the design of innovative products, services, and environments.

World’s first “digital mirror” for use in fashion retail stores. With a wave of the hand or a tap on a smartphone, shoppers can control the mirror to see back and side views of themselves; look at outfits from different angles; change outfit styles, sizes and colors; see themselves dressed in different outfits side-by-side; and instantly share images and videos of themselves with friends via smartphones and social media. The MemoryMirror makes trying on clothes a digital, interactive, and social experience.

Home Outside uses aerial and street view data to automatically redesign residential landscapes to improve sustainability, home value, and curb appeal. Just type in your address to visualize and walk through your newly designed yard in 3D.

I envision and prototype new concepts and services to learn, inspire clients, provide informed strategic guidance. Each project fuses customer insights, pioneering tech, cultural trends, elegant design, and industry partners to validate/co-create the work.

Led an amazing team to make remote vision testing more accessible and convenient for millions of people who wear glasses, and the millions more who need access to vision services. Try the Prescription Check app: https://www.warbyparker.com/prescription-check-app.

We live in two worlds: our physical environment and the digital world. The Tangible Media group's focus is on the design of seamless interfaces between humans, digital information, and the physical environment. People have developed sophisticated skills for sensing and manipulating our physical environments. However, most of these skills are not employed by traditional GUIs (Graphical User Interfaces). The Tangible Media group is designing a variety of "tangible interfaces" based on these skills by giving physical form to digital information, seamlessly coupling the dual worlds of bits and atoms. The goal is to change the "painted bits" of GUIs to "tangible bits," taking advantage of the richness of multimodal human senses and skills developed through our lifetime of interaction with the physical world. http://www.media.mit.edu/research/groups/tangible-media

The world is enamored with voice interfaces, but they’re often slow, embarrassing when other humans are around, require an awkward trigger phrase like “Ok Google,” “Hey Siri,” or “Alexa,” and thanks to advanced computer vision, not our only—or best—option. With neural nets, new depth-sensing cameras are able to recognize people, activities, and gestures from afar. They can not only be able to read what is in the scene, but also create a point cloud or depth map of who is there, how they are posing, and how they are moving. For this short stint at IDEO I worked with a team to design and prototype gestural based-interactions. We filmed dancers, American Sign Language teachers, mimes, and an orchestra conductor to learn about the power and expressiveness of subtle gesture. Now you can wave the internet of things rather than speak to them.

3.3 billion photos are shared every day on social media. Passionate fans post images of teams and products they love, but fewer and fewer of those photos are tagged with words or hashtags. Ditto has a proprietary visual recognition engine that discovers photos with products and brands and makes those photos actionable for marketers.https://firehose.dittolabs.io

Gensler is taking a leadership position on elegantly embedding technology in the built environment. Projects include new retail environments, airports, workplace, hospitality, healthcare and urban landscapes.

Vitality addresses the billion-dollar medication adherence problem for pharmaceutical brands, retail pharmacies, and healthcare providers with a simple device — an Internet-connected pill cap. The patent pending GlowCaps fit standard medicine vials from most retail pharmacies and alert users with light and sound when it is time to take a pill. The company's suite of support services helps people form and maintain good pill-taking behavior using a combination of incentives, accountability, social support, timely interventions, education and rewards. Vitality improves medication adherence, health, and peace of mind.

An inevitable evolution in consumer electronics is taking place, and it will fundamentally change the way consumers interact with online information. Consumers want the information they find important to be available at a glance, without having to sit down at a computer, or navigate a complicated PDA interface. The result for most people will be a constellation of dozens of affordable, simple, purpose-built devices to continuously represent information people care about most. Like watches and clocks, we will scatter them around our homes, offices and cars because they are remarkably convenient, easy to use and fast to read. The “embedded wireless” revolution constitutes a very large market opportunity for companies that can commercialize products with affordable wireless connectivity married to an intelligent network.

At the Graduate School of Design I teach a course on Information Visualization. This semester we are focusing on designing health dashboards. Cheap sensors and ubiquitous displays create an opportunity to increase awareness about our health. With computation embodied into furniture, clothing and rooms those artifacts also become the interface to invisible services and allow to mediate between the physical and digital world via natural interaction - away from desktop displays and keyboards. Sensing information about health is often easy compared to the design problem of how and when to represent this body-based media. As a class we will focus on the design problem of a health dashboard, in other words displays of information about our health trends or health-related behaviors or the same information for friends, family or other care-providers.

Founded and directed Viant’s Innovation Center, an advanced technology group that worked with clients like Sony, GM, Schwab, Sprint, Compaq and Fleet to develop breakthrough products and services using new technology. Helped build Viant to over 900 people, $140M in revenues and a successful IPO.

Digital photography coupled with the Internet changed the way I started to share photos and stories about life events. In 1997 I co-founded Opholio a digital photo-sharing company to take advantage of this enormous impact in how we take, store, organize and share images. The business model was an ASP, providing digital imaging technologies to Internet sites which enable their users to share photos online and participate in ad and print transaction revenues. The products (which are still better designed than ofoto or shutterfly) combine collaborative photo and story sharing features with sophisticated design and flexibility in style, layout and access. In 2000 Opholio was sold to Flashpoint Technology.

Founded an interactive design firm specializing in museum exhibits for Chicago Museum of Science, language learning CD-ROMs for Simon & Schuster, Internet kiosks for the Hong Kong tourist association and smart toys, including the award-winning Lego Mindstorms Robotic Invention System™. Grew company with no outside funding to over 25 people, $5m in annual revenue and profitability every quarter. Led all business development, marketing and sales efforts. Managed eclectic staff of software engineers, graphic designers, producers, animators, videographers, and writers. Created consulting process model, cultivated a strong collaborative company culture which survived my departure.