A product just for me!
We are proud to announce that our portfolio company Pixie has just released their first product - Pixie Points - to showcase their new tech platform they call "Location of Things". Pixie Points are super duper, location aware, self organizing tags. The product is the culmination of a lot of hard engineering work, many PhD's, experts in communication theory and algorithms, battery technology and manufacturing... The Pixie Points are sold in kits of 4 and come with a companion application for your iPhone or Android device.
It is also a product just for me! These tags are really small and you can attach them to anything: your wallet, your cell phone, your passport, a pair of pliers, your cat, your kids... It comes with a nifty augmented reality application that then shows you where everything is - exactly. So no more "..where are my keys?", or "...have you seen my cell phone?", or your kid crying because she can't find her iPad before you all get in the car for a long trip (as was the case last weekend).
These are the Pixie Points. They are about the size of a quarter and come in different colors. The process of associating a Pixie Point with a specific color to a "thing", is very cool.
This is the augmented reality app. You see the room from your front camera on your screen. The app is showing you that your wallet (which has a green pixie tag) is about 4 ft away at the far corner of the couch. The app is also detecting your laptop bag near by, but it is not in your view. As you get closer or you move around, more "pixified things" may come to your view.
