Startup: NFC Ring Reviewed
An eccentric startup wants to empower your fistbumps with information. If the NFC Ring takes off, knocking knuckles will not only swap contact...
By Brian Rhodes - over 10 years ago
An eccentric startup wants to empower your fistbumps with information. If the NFC Ring takes off, knocking knuckles will not only swap contact...
By Brian Rhodes - over 10 years ago
Bump keys make opening locked doors easy, and few products address the problem. The most common way of dealing with the risk is to change the lock...
By Brian Rhodes - over 10 years ago
Using your heartbeat to open doors just got a step closer to reality. Startup Bionym is raising funds and interest for a biometric bracelet it...
By Brian Rhodes - over 10 years ago
Few markets are as technologically stagnant as PERS, or Personal Emergency Response Systems, yet with mobile technology advancing and increasingly...
By Brian Rhodes - over 10 years ago
A startup featured on the US Shark Tank TV show, UniKey, is trying to disrupt residential access control. Now, they are partnering with one of the...
By Brian Rhodes - over 10 years ago
Beset by lawsuits, the video analytic industry has seen little innovation recently. Now, a new offering from Carnegie Mellon researchers offers a...
By Ben Wood - over 10 years ago
The Internet is abuzz with a NYC startup that has raised more than $1.5 million from an ongoing Indiegogo campaign, smashing their goal of $100,000...
By Brian Rhodes - almost 11 years ago
Essentially all IP cameras are Linux/Unix based. Plus, momentum continues to shift to non Windows platforms, like Android. Despite this, one...
By IPVM Team - about 11 years ago
A Chicago startup who you have never heard of is threatening to crush your alarm business, viewing you as a 'caveman'. The company, Scout, is a DIY...
By Brian Rhodes - about 11 years ago
While gigapixel cameras are one of the hottest topics on IPVM, their dreadful frame rates have restricted them to niche use. Forget about one frame...
By Brian Rhodes - over 11 years ago
Startups and investors focus heavily on how big the market is - Is it $10 billion, $20 billion, $41 billion??? By contrast, both would be better...
By John Honovich - over 11 years ago
"I have a great idea, but no money to do anything with it!" This circumstance has to be one of the most frustrating sentiments shared by tinkerers,...
By Brian Rhodes - about 12 years ago
In August, we broke news that GVI Security was shutting down, raising significant questions as to what would happen to their Razberi IP...
By John Honovich - over 12 years ago
When picking products, the obvious starting point is what is needed for the application. That will narrow down your options but many manufacturer's...
By John Honovich - over 12 years ago
People routinely assume that start-ups with big marketing presence at trade shows, magazines, events, etc. are successful. This is highly...
By John Honovich - over 12 years ago
A Silicon Valley startup, Prism Skylabs, is targeting the IP Video marketplace, funded by an All Star lineup of investors and lead by former...
By Ethan Ace - over 12 years ago
In 2011, a 3+ year old company gained an amazing amount of press. The company, originally called Refocus Imaging, now rebranded as Lytro announced...
By John Honovich - almost 13 years ago
Projecting the rate of new technology adoption is critical for determining what products should be developed and sold. In the surveillance market,...
By John Honovich - almost 13 years ago
Ionodes is a recent startup drawing significant interest for its experienced founders and its partnership with Genetec. The product that looks to...
By John Honovich - over 14 years ago
NLSS, a video surveillance startup founded by Pete Jankowski has recently hired an Axis Director to run Business Development. Pete Jankowski...
By John Honovich - over 14 years ago
From a financial perspective, Sypixx is probably the most successful US video surveillance startup post 9/11. Acquired by Cisco for $51 M in 2006...
By John Honovich - over 14 years ago
While there are many startups in video surveillance, many of them have under-achieved, especially the most prominent, VC backed companies in the...
By John Honovich - over 14 years ago
In discussions with video surveillance startups and investors, both routinely over-estimate the size and the potential of the video surveillance...
By John Honovich - almost 15 years ago
Companies are starting to downsize and reorganize. Reports from a variety of companies indicate this growing trend. The impact seems hardest...
By John Honovich - over 15 years ago
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