Light Blue Optics is delivering commercially viable technologies that allow us to manipulate beamed images. This brings augmented reality to a whole new level as we can now interact with data on a heads up display or simply beamed on a wall or table. I would guess the military is already a big customer with commercial clients such as medical, automotive and entertainment not far behind. Their recent $13M in funding which follows a 2009 $15M indicate decent revenue traction.
The term ‘disruptive innovation’ is often associated with technology. Part of the reason is due to the fact that when Clayton Christensen first published his theory of disruption in his book “The Innovators Dilema” he used the term ‘disruptive technology’ to describe his theory. It wasn’t until Craig Barret, former Chairman of Intel suggested at…
Innovation suffers from many misconceptions in the business world. Perhaps the most common is that a disruptive innovation requires a big idea or an “aha” moment. Quite the contrary. Another is that innovation is the fun stuff. Ask anyone who’s brought an idea to successful fruition and you’ll quickly learn that the dopamine rush of…