Date Announced: 01 Sep 2011
Golden-i® Recognized as Leading Product Innovation at International Futurists Conference.
TAUNTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Kopin® Corporation (NASDAQ:KOPN - News) today announced that Golden-i®, the hands-free cloud computing headset in development with Motorola Solutions, Inc., has captured the “Best in Show” and “Most Buyable” awards of the inventions showcased at Futurists: BetaLaunch, the premier launch event for cutting-edge technology from the world’s future thinkers. The Golden-i headset was also voted by attendees as the invention that “makes me feel like I’m in the future, now!”
“We are thrilled and honored that Golden-i has been recognized with these awards by the World Future Society and its members,” said Kopin President and Chief Executive Officer Dr. John C.C. Fan. “With a 15-inch virtual screen image that is controlled by voice and head motion, the compact hands-free Golden-i headset is the ultimate mobile computer! From the automobile industry to the energy market, from industrial design to mobile gaming, we believe the possibilities and applications for Golden-i are boundless.”
“The ubiquity of network connectivity has resulted in an ‘everyone and everything connected world’ – a fabric by which we are all connected resulting in crowd-based collective intelligence,” said Tom Bianculli, Senior Director, Emerging Business, Chief Technology Office, Motorola Solutions.
“We have seen user interfaces migrate from textual to graphical and now to natural utilizing gestures, speech recognition and a blending of the digital and physical worlds by leveraging augmented reality to quickly and simply provide end users with the right information at the right time. We believe Golden-i is uniquely positioned to capitalize on this confluence of technology trends in a way that will revolutionize how field service and public safety workers get access to better, faster situational awareness.”
Source: Kopin
E-mail: rsneider@kopin.com
Web Site: www.kopin.com
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