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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.”

T3 April, 2002

Share Traders See The Light

“...making information blend into the background of everyday life without bleeping like your phone or sending endless emails to your PC.”

NewYork Times March 21, 2002

A Glowing Delphic Orb Says 'Buy,' 'Hold' or 'Panic'
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"The company is staking its future on a demand for more timely and personalized yet less specific information from gadgets and computers.
In May the company will roll out its first product, the Stock Orb, a glowing colored globe that receives wireless information and changes hue and intensity depending on the movement of the Dow Jones industrial average." -David J. Wallace

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

InfoSync January 25th, 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." - Nabeel Hyatt

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

NewYork Times December, 27th 2001

When the Sender Courts the Senses
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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

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." A first product will likely be a frosted-glass orb, illuminated from within by colorful light-emitting diodes, called Stocklight. When linked to an Internet-connected computer, Stocklight would glow one color when a user's portfolio was up, another when it was steady, and a third color when it was down. Think of it as your own personal version of the old John Hancock building's beacon, where different colors indicate the weather forecast. The idea is to liberate Internet information from the computer screen." -Scott Kirstner

Tech Ventures 2001 November 26, 2001

David Rose, President of Ambient Devices delivers keynote

Lumitouch: An Emotional Communication Device

The LumiTouch socially ambient interactive picture frames were initially presented at SIG-CHI April 2001, Seattle, WA

MIT Wireless panel, Dec 2001
Ben Resner, VP technology demostrates Ambient's flexible platform technology

Future Forward Conference, November 2001

David Rose, gives talk about Ambient intelligence