DEMO 2005 Photo Essay Cont'd


Alice Collins of AutoXray (www.autoxray.com) shows off the CodeScout, a new handheld device designed to tell people what their cars are trying to say when the "check engine light" comes on. The device plugs into the diagnostic port of cars made after 1995, reads the car's computer systems and attempts to tell people what triggered the light.

 

Jonathan Joseph of the CIA's tech incubator In-Q-Tel tests a prototype of the Novint Falcon (www.novintweb.com), a device that adds the sense of touch to computer games and other electronic simulations.

Scott Davis, co-founder and chief technical officer of Virtual Iron (www.virtualiron.com) of Acton, Mass., sits in front of a computer showing the new business-computing product he unveiled this week that likely will make a splash in corporate data centers. Virtual Iron's software aims to create massive "virtual" computing environments to let big corporations chop up their computing requirements into small parcels and distribute them over multiple servers, like Lego building blocks.

David Geller, chief executive of WhatCounts Inc. (whatcounts.com), shows the new BlogUnit appliance designed to let companies offer blogging tools to their employees with such features as built-in controls for authorizing posts before they go live.


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