Musings from Philippe

SAN FRANCISCO, CA. – (Feb 4, 2015) – Fullpower® today announced it has been awarded another important patent covering key practical aspects of automatic activity identification in wearables with a February 2008 priority date. Automatic activity identification is crucial for most smartwatches and advanced fitness trackers such as the Jawbone UP24™, UP MOVE™, UP3™ and many upcoming smartwatches.

“Smartwatches and advanced activity trackers get turbo-charged by automatic activity identification and early priority date IP is critical,” said Philippe Kahn, CEO of Fullpower. “As the sensing technology leader for smartwatches and activity trackers, our IP portfolio represents a sizable strategic advantage for our partners such as Nike, Jawbone and others.”

These patents are part of an intellectual property portfolio from Fullpower that includes more than 47 issued patents with over 77 patents pending. Broad coverage for the MotionX® Technology Platform and Sleeptracker® technology introduces a new and necessary approach for continuous activity and sleep monitoring and analysis, with applications spanning a variety of smartwatches and activity trackers as well as health and fitness, medical, business, lifestyle and navigation applications. Fullpower’s ongoing innovation translates into continually broadening and deepening of this patent portfolio.

The patent for invention number 8,949,070 relates to gesture and current user activity recognition. This patent supplements the Fullpower patent portfolio for the MotionX Sensor-Fusion technology.

Important Links:
www.fullpower.com
www.motionx.com

About Fullpower
Fullpower® provides the leading MotionX-365 patented ecosystem for wearable and IoT sensor-based solutions supporting state-of-the-art sensor arrays. For the “Quantified Self”, Fullpower has developed the MotionX® Technology Platform for smartwatches that include automatic activity and sleep monitoring. Fullpower powers market-leading wearable solutions from Nike, Jawbone and others.

Jawbone Unveils New Entry-Level Activity and Sleep Tracker, Powered by MotionX®, To Help You Move More And Sleep Better

SAN FRANCISCO – November 4, 2014 – Jawbone® today announced UP MOVE™, a new, easy-to-use activity tracker that helps you get fit, lose weight and have fun doing it.

At just $49.99, UP MOVE by Jawbone is the simplest way to get credit for your steps, exercise and calories burned while also capturing detailed information about your sleep. And UP MOVE lets you learn more with Smart Coach – the UP® App’s intelligent approach to personalized guidance and deeper insight that helps you move more every day.

“UP MOVE is a fun, easy way to track activity and at just $49.99, it’s a great option for anyone at the beginning of a fitness or weight loss journey,” said Travis Bogard, vice president of product management and strategy at Jawbone. “Incorporating the same best-in-class lifestyle and activity- tracking features of our UP and UP24 bands, the UP MOVE tracker combines style, versatility and comfort with highly accurate tracking and personalized guidance.”

Stylish New Design

Press the face of UP MOVE to see its sleek, hidden LED display light up to show you your progress toward your goals at a glance. Press once to display your step progress, twice to display the time, and three times to display your sleep from the prior night.

Made from a durable, nylon-like anodized aluminum, UP MOVE comes in five brilliant colors with corresponding clips so you can easily fasten it anywhere. Place the tracker discreetly in the coin pocket of your jeans, or use it with the clip to wear it on your sock, belt or bra. Colorful hypoallergenic wrist straps are also available in two widths, slim and standard, allowing you to wear UP MOVE on your wrist and mix and match it with your personal accessories.

UP MOVE comes with a replaceable battery that lasts up to six months, eliminating the need for regular recharging. It uses the same circular batteries found in digital watches and remotes, which are long- lasting and easy to replace.

Move More with Smart Coach

The accelerometer built into UP MOVE counts your daily steps without missing a beat, no matter where you go or how you wear it. UP MOVE can also be worn in bed to accurately track sleep, including hours slept and sleep quality. For optimum results, wear the comfortable wrist strap accessory during sleep.

UP MOVE connects wirelessly with Jawbone’s industry-leading UP App via Bluetooth® Smart, syncing regularly in the background to track your progress throughout the day and night. Smart Coach, the UP App’s intelligent guidance and insight system, stays with you every step of the way to help you understand what changes you should make, and encourages you to move more each day. You’ll get a deeper understanding of how your diet, sleep, activity and other choices affect your overall health and well-being, and you’ll be motivated with personal challenges like drinking eight glasses of water in a day, or taking 2,500 more steps.

With UP MOVE, you can connect with anyone in the UP system, regardless of whether they use Jawbone’s original UP® and UP24™ bands, or simply the free UP App for smartphones and wearables. Members of the UP community who have three or more teammates are likely to take 1,000 more steps per day which equates to 10 extra miles per month, according to Jawbone data. Use the new UP leaderboard to see how you stack up against your teammates for a little healthy competition.

Powered by MotionX®

The tracker is powered by MotionX® technology to provide a comprehensive summary of your daily progress, including steps and sleep.

“We spend nearly a third of our lives sleeping, but the vast majority of people have little to no insight into their nightly sleep habits,” said Philippe Kahn, founder and CEO of Fullpower. “UP MOVE is a leap forward in changing what we know about our daily behavior thanks to more than 170 million nights of sleep tracked and analyzed, and years of research and development on the biomechanics of natural human motion. Whether you are sleeping or awake, UP MOVE gives you accurate sleep and activity tracking using patented advanced sensing technology enabling ultra-long battery life.”

Available This Month

UP MOVE by Jawbone includes the pod-style tracking device, a corresponding clip and a replaceable battery, and it comes in a selection of five brilliant tracker and clip color combinations including:

Black Burst, Onyx Clip
Blue Burst, Fog Clip
Grape Rose, Purple Clip
Ruby Rose, Red Punch Clip
Slate Rose, Yellow Clip
It will be available for pre-order in select colors on Jawbone.com beginning November 5, and will be available for purchase at Jawbone.com, Amazon, Apple, Best Buy and Target stores later this month. The Grape Rose UP MOVE will be offered exclusively at Best Buy stores and on Jawbone.com.

Wrist straps for UP MOVE – available in slim and standard widths – will be sold separately in Onyx, Fog, Red Punch, Purple and Yellow as single straps for $14.99, and in assorted three-packs for $29.99.

The UP by Jawbone App for UP MOVE will be available on iOS and Android devices beginning this week as a free download from the App Store and Google Play.

About Jawbone®

Jawbone® is a world-leader in consumer technology and wearable devices, building hardware products and software platforms powered by data science.

The UP® system helps people live better by providing personalized insight into how they sleep, move and eat. Its open platform includes an ecosystem of apps and services that integrate with UP to offer new, customized experiences. The company’s approach to lifestyle tracking is unique, with over 1000 patents granted or pending related to its ecosystem and wearable technology manufacturing processes.

Jawbone is also the creator of the best-selling JAMBOX® family of wireless speakers, the award-winning Jawbone ERA® Bluetooth® headsets, and NoiseAssassin® technology.

Headquartered in San Francisco with offices globally, Jawbone products are available in over 40 countries around the world.

Visit Jawbone.com/trademarks for more information on trademarks owned by AliphCom dba Jawbone. Other company and product names may be trademarks of their respective owners.

About Fullpower-MotionX

Founded in 2003, Fullpower’s world-class team leads the wearable and IoT revolution. The MotionX Sensor-Fusion Technology Platform includes a suite of tightly coupled and integrated firmware, software and communication components that are the building blocks for new breakthrough non- invasive, wearable wireless devices. Fullpower powers market-leading wearable solutions from Nike, Jawbone and others. The Fullpower wearable patent portfolio includes more than 45 issued patents and more than 75 patents pending covering Sleeptracker®, MotionX®, bands, pods, smart watches, eyewear, clothing, sensor-fusion, IoT, health, medical, wellness and machine learning. Fullpower showcases some of its MotionX Technology Platform via its iPhone and iPad applications, which lead the App Store in the Medical, and Navigation premium paid categories.

Media Contacts:

press@jawbone.com
fullpower@43pr.com

For more news and stories from Jawbone, please visit blog.jawbone.com.

By Kevin Maney, Newsweek

Tiny cameras are one thing. Instant upload adds another dimension. Now that we have ubiquitous wireless networks—whether cellular or Wi-Fi—services like Google+ can upload video to the Web as soon as it’s shot. As Philippe Kahn, who invented the camera phone in the 1990s, told Newsweek, police or soldiers or mobs who see you shooting video might smash your device. But if the file is already on its way to the Web, the toothpaste, you might say, is out of the YouTube. “The truth gets shared,” Kahn says.

Click here to read the complete article at Newsweek.com

SAN FRANCISCO, CA–(Marketwired – July 23, 2014) – Fullpower® today announced it has been awarded another key sensor-fusion patent. This patent outlines a method to identify a person’s activity using sensor-fusion.

“Wearable and IoT depend on sensor-fusion to deliver,” said Philippe Kahn, founder and CEO of Fullpower. “Jawbone UP and Nike+ Running, for example, are showcase implementations and this is just the beginning.”

The patent for invention number 8,784,309 relates to monitoring human activity, and more particularly to accurately calculating user activity statistics using a location sensor and an inertial sensor. This patent supplements the Fullpower patent portfolio for the MotionX® Sensor-Fusion processor technology, which includes US Patents 8,568,310, 8,187,182, 7,647,195, 7,970,586, and 8,320,578 among others.

The Fullpower Patent Portfolio
These patents are part of an intellectual property portfolio from Fullpower that includes more than 45 issued patents with dozens of patents pending. Broad coverage for the MotionX® Technology Platform and Sleeptracker® technology introduces a new and necessary approach for continuous activity and sleep monitoring and analysis, with applications spanning a variety of health and fitness, medical, and navigation applications. Fullpower’s ongoing innovation translates into continually broadening and deepening of this patent portfolio.

Important Links:
www.fullpower.com
www.motionx.com

About Fullpower and the MotionX Technology Platform
Founded in 2003, Fullpower’s world-class team leads the wearable and IoT revolution. Fullpower powers market-leading wearable solutions from Nike, Jawbone and others. The Fullpower wearable patent portfolio includes more than 45 issued patents and more than 75 patents pending covering Sleeptracker®, MotionX®, bands, pods, smart watches, eyewear, clothing, sensor-fusion, IoT, health, medical, wellness and machine learning.

Jawbone Up and Sleepio app review

Using a wristband to collect sleep data, an app to help learn new habits, and online tutorials for tips, Observer corespondent Alice Fisher works on getting better sleep with the Jawbone Up.

“I used the Sleepio app in conjunction with a Jawbone UP wristband. The band tracks movement and sleep, information that’s stored in your smartphone and online in your Sleepio account. It’s very easy to use. Wear the wristband to collect data and add any extra explanatory information into a simple online diary along with your subjective experience of last night’s slumber. Sleepio analyses it for you.” Read the original review @TheGuardian.com

By Kevin Maney, Newsweek Magazine

The rapid evolution of wearable technology is leading to body implants

Wearable gadgets like smart watches and Google Glass can seem like a fad that has all the durability of CB radios or Duran Duran, but they’re important early signs of a new era of technology that will drive investment and innovation for years.

Tech companies are pushing out waves of wearable technology products – all of them clumsy and none of them yet really catching on. Samsung is feverishly hawking its Galaxy Gear smart watch, and Google, Apple, Qualcomm, and others are expected to come out with competing versions. Google Glass gets lots of gee-whiz attention, and every other day, someone new introduces a fitness tracker, a GPS kid-monitoring bracelet, or – yeah, seriously – interactive underwear.

These are all part of a powerful trend: Over the past 40 years, digital technology has consistently moved from far away to close to us.

Go back long enough, and computers the size of Buicks stayed in the back rooms of big companies. Most people never touched them. By the late 1970s, technology started moving to office desks – first as terminals connected to those hidden computers, and then as early personal computers.

The next stage: We wanted digital technology in our homes, so we bought desktop PCs. A “portable” computer in the mid-1980s, like the first Compaq, was the size of a carry-on suitcase and about as easy to lug as John Goodman. But by the 1990s, laptops got better and smaller, for the first time liberating digital technology from a place and attaching it more to a person.

Now we want our technology with us all the time. This era of the smartphone and tablet began in earnest with the iPhone in 2007. But technology is still separate from us – we have to remember to bring it along and take it out of our pockets and bags. Twenty years from now, that will seem like a horrid inconvenience.

In technology’s inexorable march from far away to close to us, and now with us, there are only three places left for it to go: on us, all around us, and then in us.

“Wearable is the next paradigm shift,” says Philippe Kahn, who invented the camera phone and today is developing innards for wearable tech. “We are going to see a lot of innovation in wearable in the next seven years, by 2020.”

Click here for the complete article at Newsweek.com

Wearable technology and the Quantified Self movement are pretty trendy nowadays, especially since the launch of the ultra-popular Jawbone UP powered by MotionX technology. Today, Fullpower-MotionX, MotionX-24/7 for the iPhone and iPad, an activity tracker and sleep monitor optimized for the iPhone 5S M7 processor and iOS 7.

Click here for the complete article at Ubergizmo.com

Major companies such as Apple, Google, Microsoft are increasingly getting into the wearable computing business. The opportunity is huge, especially for makers of MEMS based sensors, electronics, and associated software.

Click here to read the full article at MEMS Journal.

Philippe Kahn is a sailor singularly obsessed with optimization – finding the right crew and the right technology to survive and prosper on the high seas. That approach has made him a record-setting racer, and a successful tech entrepreneur.

Click to read at Wired.com

Entrevistamos al francés Philippe Kahn, que cuenta los detalles del prototipo que en 1997 le permitió compartir la foto digital del nacimiento de su hija y los desafíos que enfrentó la tecnología para posicionarse en la industria móvil

Por Guillermo Tomoyose | LA NACION

Philippe Kahn bajo la lente del teléfono de su hija Sophie, nueve años luego de ser retratada por la primera cámara para un celular. Foto: Gentileza Philippe Kahn

En las cuatro décadas de vida del celular, existe una prestación que, más allá de los adelantos que experimentaron los diferentes modelos lanzados en la última década, está presente en la demanda de los usuarios: la cámara de fotos. No importan tanto las limitaciones técnicas: el uso de la lente de los teléfonos móviles predominó por encima de los modelos digitales compactos y semiprofesionales por la facilidad de apuntar, disparar y compartir de forma instantánea una imagen. Y porque es una cámara que siempre se lleva en el bolsillo.

Desde los sucesos de la primavera árabe, los improvisados paparazzis digitales de la vía pública y hasta eventos masivos, con la foto de la asunción del papa Francisco con miles de celulares en alto como muestra de la preferencia de los teléfonos con cámara por sobre otros equipos, esa premisa fue el aliado perfecto para el crecimiento explosivo y la consolidación de servicios como Flickr , Facebook, Twitter e Instagram , entre tantos otros.

Y también lo fue para Philippe Kahn hace más de 16 años, cuando en 1997 este ejecutivo y emprendedor francés decidió crear una cámara de fotos que se comportara de esta forma. Utilizó la óptica de una cámara Casio QV-10, un teléfono Motorola Star Tac y desarrolló el software adecuado para compartir con sus amigos, mediante un mensaje de correo electrónico, la primera foto digital de su hija.

“La visión que tenía en aquel momento era crear una cámara para un teléfono celular que combinara la modalidad apuntar, disparar y compartir de forma instantánea”. Eso es lo que en la actualidad podemos ver en un smartphone en combinación con diversas plataformas sociales, como Flickr, Google o Facebook”, cuenta Kahn, al ser consultado por LA NACION.

“La clave del despegue de esta tecnología fue el despliegue de las redes móviles inalámbricas”, agregó este emprendedor francés, que fue CEO de Borland, una de las rivales de Microsoft durante las décadas del 80 y mediados de los 90, hasta que decidió mudarse a San Francisco, Estados Unidos.

Su trayectoria también estuvo marcada por otro hito en el mundo tecnológico: en 1973 fue el programador de Micral , la primera computadora producida de forma comercial (y no mediante kits de armado) basado en un microprocesador Intel, el modelo 8008. Incluso se anticipó a la mítica Altair, el equipo que marcó el inicio de Microsoft en el mundo del desarrollo de software.

Conocida por haber sido la primera persona retratada por la lente de un “camera-phone” , como prefiere denominar Kahn a estos teléfonos móviles, años más tarde su hija invirtió los roles y le hizo un retrato a su padre con la lente de un celular , ese pionero de la fotografía digital que tiene un iPhone como su equipo de uso diario.

El lento despegue de la cámara del celular

Sophie, la hija de Philippe Kahn, fue la protagonista de la primera foto tomada por la cámara de un teléfono celular en 1997. Foto: Gentileza Philippe Kahn

En una primera etapa, Motorola trabajó con LightSurf, una de las compañías que fundó Kahn, para desarrollar un teléfono celular con cámara, pero el proyecto se canceló en 2001.

A pesar de estas investigaciones, los primeros modelos no surgieron en Estados Unidos, sino en el mercado asiático. “En 1997 el escenario móvil no estaba listo para esta propuesta. Mi primer cliente vino de Japón con la compañía J-phone en 1999, con el servicio ShaMail (Picture Mail, la traducción en inglés) junto a un teléfono Sharp equipado con una cámara. Motorola llegó al mercado con su propia propuesta mucho más tarde”, dijo Kahn.

El crecimiento de esta tecnología en el mercado asiático tiene sus motivos, con firmas como Samsung y Sharp que se disputan la creación del primer teléfono con cámara, una función que hoy en día se encuentra presente tanto en los smartphones de última generación como en los modelos más modestos. De hecho, la red de NTT DoCoMo de Japón fue una de las primeras plataformas en ofrecer Internet móvil en 1999.

En este punto, Kahn cree que en un futuro la clave de la evolución de este matrimonio entre el teléfono móvil y una cámara no reside en la cantidad de megapixeles de una foto, sino en un mayor ancho de banda, el ingrediente clave para que el fenómero de las fotografías digitales lograra su impacto más allá de los mercados orientales. “La cámara del celular es una combinación de una infraestructura para compartir de forma instantánea las fotos y un sensor integrado al equipo. Eso es lo que a un usuario de cualquier parte del mundo le importa”.

Programador de una de las primeras computadoras comerciales y ex-CEO de Borland, Kahn ahora se encuentra abocado en el desarrollo de sensores biométricos no invasivos. Foto: Gentileza Philippe Kahn

Esa modalidad, que Kahn vislumbró hace más de quince años, comenzó a ser visible en Flickr, que tiene a la línea de teléfonos iPhone entre los tres dispositivos más populares en la plataforma de Yahoo! . Y el fenómeno no quedó allí, con iniciativas como Instagram, que ya cuenta con 100 millones de usuarios y que fue adquirida por Facebook en 1000 millones de dólares. La compañía cofundada por Mark Zuckerberg explota al máximo esa unión entre el componente social y la publicación de fotografías, con más de 300 millones de imágenes subidas de forma diaria a su plataforma.

“¡Es fabuloso que el ecosistema de los teléfonos con cámara esté creciendo de esta forma!”, dijo Kahn sobre esta tendencia.

El trabajo de este ex-CEO de Borland, que fue a Estados Unidos para poner a prueba el prototipo de celular con cámara, ahora se encuentra con una iniciativa diferente, pero que se mantiene dentro del mundo móvil: los sensores biométricos no invasivos que interactúan con los teléfonos inteligentes.

Desde su compañía FullPower , Kahn cuenta con la tecnología MotionX, empleada en la aplicación Nike+ Running , utilizada por los aficionados al entrenamiento físico, y también adoptada por Jawbone , la empresa que lanzó al mercado la pulsera UP para la medición de signos vitales, cuyos datos registrados luego son transferidos de forma inalámbrica a un smartphone para procesar los parámetros y llevar un control diario de las comidas, actividades físicas y de sueño.

“Esta tecnología permitirá que las personas puedan mejorar su calidad de vida, mejorar su sueño y tener más actividad física con pequeños cambios en la conducta diaria”, dijo este pionero francés del mundo tecnológico, que sigue sin alejarse de los sensores y de los teléfonos inteligentes y que fue uno de los rostros de la campaña de Best Buy en el anuncio del SuperBowl el pasado año.

Philippe Kahn en el anuncio del SuperBowl (en inglés)