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Past Appearences
CES
Las Vegas, NV
January 8-11, 2004
Ambient presented at the MIT Media Lab "Launch"
section, announcing Personal
Dashboards and new content partnerships with Accuweather
and Yodlee.
Pop!Tech
Camden, ME
October 16-19, 2003
Ambient presented new opportunities for tangible media
that impact people's lives.
UbiComp
2003
Seattle, WA
October 12-15, 2003
TEDMED3
Philadelphia, PA
June 11-14, 2003
David Rose was a featured presenter on wireless
technology opportunities in home chronic disease state
monitoring.
CTIA Wireless 2003
New Orleans, LA
March 17 to 19
Nabeel Hyatt presented "Wireless Beyond Handsets
-- Creating Everyday Wireless Devices"
AIGA Advance for Design Summit
Las Vegas, NV
July 12, 2002
David Rose was a panelist at "Repositioning the practice,"
how designers can help business and technology articulate
the future.
Wireless Convergence
July 9, 2002
Nabeel Hyatt and Ben Resner presented "Wireless Beyond
Handsets -- Creating Everyday Wireless Devices"
Living Surfaces
May 4, 2002
David Rose presented Interpret and Invade Propositions
TED2002
February 20-23, 2002
Ambient Devices' debuted the Ambient Orb and Stock Spinners
Tech Ventures 2001
November 26, 2001
David Rose, President of Ambient Devices delivers keynote
Lumitouch: An Emotional Communication
Device
April 2001, Seattle, WA
The LumiTouch socially ambient interactive picture frames
were initially presented at SIG-CHI
MIT Wireless Panel
December 2001
Ben Resner, VP technology demonstrates Ambient's flexible
platform technology
Future Forward Conference November
2001
David Rose gives talk about Ambient intelligence
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Ambient Dashboards: The future of the Human Computer Interface
January, 2004
"As the networked world continues to advance rapidly,
and sensors and computers can signal the progress of events
and information, there is a growing industry set to deliver
better ways of keeping us informed. Ambient Devices regards
itself as the foremost exponent of this new science of
glanceable information displays." (Gizmo)
 When
this orb glows, it's telling you something
November 9, 2003
"I had it tuned to the weather. Had there been a
serious drop, say, to the 20s, my orb would have gone
purple. And it would have pulsed if rain were on the way.
I also had some pressing questions I needed the orb to
answer. For example, what was a polling agency predicting
about whether Ariel Sharon would outlast Yasser Arafat?
(Answer: Sharon was scoring the brighter bulb.)"
- Carlene Hempel (Boston Globe)
 Clocking
Traffic
October, 2003
"It’s quitting time, and you want to know whether
traffic conditions will allow you to get home in time
for dinner. You could check commuter sites on the Web
or listen to the radio—or, as soon as next year,
you could glance at the “traffic meter” on your
desk." (MIT Technology Review)
 A
Warm Reception
September 15, 2003
"Ambient Devices has 3,000 preorders for its Weather
Beacon, which will sell for $180 starting next month.
The square device glows in various colors depending on
the local forecast for the day, and it pulses if precipitation
is predicted: if it’s throbbing red, expect 90-degree-plus
heat and rain." - Jennifer Barrett (Newsweek)
 Great
Minds Ponder "Dashboard" for the Human Body
July 23, 2003
"People want monitoring devices that are "glancable"
and as easy to read as clocks or barometers, without having
to log onto the Internet for a personal health report"
- Bijal P. Trivedi (National Geographic)
 Glass
That Glows and Gives Stock Information
June 6, 2003
“The potential appeal of bare-bones displays is clear
in the continuing popularity of things like clocks and
nondigital speedometers. The information age twist is
that, thanks to computers and wireless communications,
even the simplest display can now draw on data from anywhere
in the world. Moreover, computers make it possible to
switch such a device from being a stock monitor to a traffic
reporter without replacing the display.” - Barnaby
J. Feder (New York Times)
(via New York Times)
 Ambient
Devices' is a Purple Cow
May 21, 2003
"The best product marketing is a remarkable product,"
is the basic premise behind Seth Godin's new book, Purple
Cow. And he named Ambient as a prime example of this in
his supplementary e-book, 99 Cows. Download the full
e-book here, or just skip to
our part.
 Press
Release: Ambient Devices Launches on WebLink Wireless
Network
May 5, 2003
"WebLink
is the first wireless company to operate devices with
the Ambient Data Services Framework. By
combining Ambient's patent-pending technology with WebLink's
cost-effective network, Ambient-powered products will
be the first wireless products that do not require a service
fee to operate."
 Press
Release: Color Kinetics and Ambient Devices Partner
March 18, 2003
"Color Kinetics licenses patented Chromacore®
technology to wireless information innovator Ambient Devices
for new category of color-driven, ambient information
devices "
 The
Year in Ideas: News That Glows
December 15, 2002
"This is ''ambient information'' -- the newest concept
in how to monitor everyday data. We've been cramming stock
tips, horoscopes and news items onto our computers and
cellphones -- forcing us to peer constantly at little
screens. What if we've been precisely wrong?" - Clive
Thompson (New York Times Magazine)
 Press
Release: Orange, Newlands, Ambient to Test Consumer Reaction
to Next Generation Connected Table
July 9, 2002
"Orange S.A., one of the world's largest mobile communications
companies, has partnered with Newlands and Ambient Devices
Inc. on a design-research project, to prototype and then
test consumers' response to the concept of a communicating
wirefreeTM table."
 Fast
Company
November, 2002 — Page 40
Tickertock, Tickertock, Tickertock...
“To track your stock portfolio, you've been able
to customize your Web browser for years. But here's a
real desktop device: the wireless Information Gauge.”
(Fast Company)
 Time
Magazine
April 22, 2002 — Page B7
Mood of the Market
“Ambient Devices, based in Cambridge, Mass., can
alert you in colors you choose to any information that
can be constantly updated online, from the weather temperature
in Maine to your mom’s blood pressure.” (Time
Magazine)
New
York Times
March 21, 2002
A Glowing Delphic Orb Says 'Buy,' 'Hold' or 'Panic'
“Ambient Devices, based in Cambridge, Mass., can
alert you in colors you choose to any information that
can be constantly updated online, from the weather temperature
in Maine to your mom’s blood pressure.” –
David J. Wallace (New York Times)
(free registration required)
 The
Washington Times
January 28, 2002
Stock Orb shows market losses in living color
"Following the stock market can be a rip-snorting,
fist-pounding kind of business, what with all those bells,
charts and urgent messages. Until now. Something called
the Stock Orb has arrived, part of a new and most civilized
revolution in the consumer electronic kingdom. All those
squawking, nervous little devices have gone downright
polite..." – Jennifer Harper (Washington Times)
 InfoSync
January 25, 2002
Watch your money glow
"The device is part of the larger philosophy at Cambridge,
MA-based startup Ambient Devices that information should
become a part of our environment, not scream out from
it. While they have been designing products to seed the
market, Ambient’s real game is the infrastructure
that supports embedded wireless devices. So while your
car keys will still come from by BMW, and your pens from
Cross, the underlying technology to tell them what to
do could be from Ambient Devices in the near future."
(InfoSync)
 WIRED
Magazine
February 2002 — Page 45
Peripherals, LiteBright-Style
“Real estate on your computer screen is like retail
space in Tokyo’s Ginza District: precious, cluttered,
and jammed tight. Half the time you can’t find what
you care about most. That problem inspired the wireless
orb, which sits on your desk and changes hues when your
stock portfolio is up or down, when it’s snowing
at you favorite ski resort, or when you’ve been bested
on an eBay bid.” – Scott Kirsner (Wired)
New
York Times
December 27, 2001
When the Sender Courts the Senses
"Ambient displays can strikingly change people's
awareness of and experience of information", said
Dr. Hiroshi Ishii, a researcher at the Media Lab at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. One of his creations
is made of computer-controlled pinwheels suspended from
a ceiling. They spin in different ways to depict different
kinds of information, from the frenzy of stock transactions
to e-mail traffic at M.I.T." -Yudhijit Bhattacharjee
(NY Times)
(free registration required)
Boston
Globe
October 29, 2001
A company at a crossroads
"The new company explains its objective as making
'devices and technology to move information off the screen
and into people's everyday environment.' The idea is to
liberate Internet information from the computer screen."
– Scott Kirsner (Boston Globe)
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