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Microcap & Penny Stocks : Microvision (MVIS) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Steve who wrote (3994)	1/8/2000 10:18:00 PM
From: mark calder	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 7721

just finished the January WIRED article on nanotechnology. Very good article as far as Microvision is concerned, WIRED chose the 3 top companies in their opinion in the MEMS field. they were Microsensor, Microvision and Lucent Technology. Not bad company if you ask me. I was able to glean a few more tidbits of info namely that "the company plans to elegantly integrate the chip into ordinary glasses frames" the article also talks about a deal that Sandia Labs has made with a "major manufacturing facility that will be able to produce these devices in large numbers". If you guys remember, the original MEMS patents were purchased for 5 million, the source is speculated to be Stanford University. This will go down as one of the smartest business deals, second only to Gates purchase of the DOS operating system, in the history of this business. The following are excerpts from the article: "Gnat sized robots, microscopic gyroscopes, television beamed directly onto your retina. This may sound like a grocery list for a crazed sci-fi visionary. But all of these projects are in the works today, Thanks to a to an emerging chip technology known as microelectromechanical systems. " " The underlying technology is here, now, seeking funding and ready for development. HUNDREDS of companies and THOUSANDS of researchers around the globe are working on MEMS projects. Heres a look at FIVE standouts, ranging from fanciful to the front-and-center. get ready to be disrupted." 'if the Bothell, Washington based Microvision has its way, within the next several years, you wont be watching videos on a television screen, a computer monitor or even the latest color plasma screen display. instead you'll don MEMS-enhanced eyeglasses to beam full-color, full-motion images directly onto your retina. Microvision's high-resolution displays ARE being developed for use in military aircraft, flight simulators, WEARABLE COMPUTERS, and GAMING SYSTEMS. (no body told us?) Embedded into an eyeglass frame is a MEMS chip with a moving, pinhead-sized mirror that reflects a harmless, low power laser beam. "You need to scan beams into the eyes of a user", says Thor Osborn, the engineer in charge of Microvision's MEMS research. To do that in a light-weight format , MEMS is the natural choice-the silicon itself weighs less than a gram" The US Air Force, Army and Navy are already using Helmet-mounted prototypes for a virtual cockpit-training program and portable navigation system (?) Current versions project only red monochrome images into each eye. Next, the company plans to elegantly integrate the chip into ordinary glasses frames" "successful commercial development depends on advances in computer processing power and wireless bandwidth connectivity. But with the basic MEMS technology PROVEN, Microvision says its immersive full-color specs are coming into focus" Caps and parentheses are my own.