SVc2UK showcase takes Cambridge innovation to the Valley
One of the Cambridge highlights of Silicon Valley comes to the UK was the company showcase, a display of many of the top startups Cambridge has to offer that really had some fizz to it, companies that are not only pushing useful technology, but ones with great imagination, none more so than the Raspberry Pi Foundation and its efforts to produce a computer that can be sold for only £15.
The company showcase put local startups in front of the Valley visitors, including serial entrepreneur, Jack Lang, also one of the Foundation's trustees, was on hand to show the alpha board which is being reduced to the size of a credit card in time for a launch before the year's end.
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Fonleap is also looking to release its debut product this year, an app that allows you to 'carry' your desktop on your smart phone and set it up on any other computer, as demonstrated by Dan Greenfield. Another of the company's founders said there was a lot of interest on the day, particularly from investors, though if this is the same as investor interest remains to be seen.
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Input Dynamics had a new app on show, but it was the fact that it was opening up its acoustic touch sensitive technology to any interested developer through a newly launched API that was of interest. The technology was recognised earlier this year by UK ICT Pioneers as the strongest commercial prospect in its awards, but is now eager to let others develop technology that uses any phone's embedded microphone to 'hear' a tap, thus making it touch sensitive.
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Sam Loose, founder and CEO of Knowledge Transmission was one of few companies with a technology that was developed not at Cambridge University, but in a corporate environment and one of the few with a major contract under his belt. Having developed a smart phone and tablet app for his former employer that makes text books more digestible, Loose is pushing his education products worldwide into mobile learning and has a deal with an unnamed 'large international publisher.'
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