SANTA CRUZ, CA–(Marketwire – Apr 19, 2012) – Fullpower®-MotionX® today announced its 2.0 update of the popular MotionX-Sleep App for iPhone and iPod touch, adding five new enhancements based on direct user feedback. MotionX-Sleep is a next-generation health and fitness app that tracks your sleep and daily activity directly from your iPhone or iPod touch.
The five new enhancements include:
Feature 1: New Alarm Clock Interface
The intuitive alarm clock makes setting your Smart Sleep Cycle Alarm quick and easy.
Feature 2: New Improved iPhone / iPod touch Placement
Optimize the placement of your iPhone or iPod touch with the new audible placement test.
Feature 3: New Sleep History Visualization
View your full sleep history, sleep graphs, and sleep statistics in 1-day, 7-day, or 30-day summaries.
Feature 4: Improved Accuracy
More accurate sleep tracking with optimizations for all mattress types, including Tempur-Pedic®.
Feature 5: New Facebook and Twitter integration
Post your sleep graphs and statistics for your friends and followers to check out.
“Feedback from customers and continual innovation have been the keys to our success as an iOS developer,” said Philippe Kahn, founder and CEO of Fullpower-MotionX, “With the latest version of MotionX-Sleep, we’ve added five great new features to help users sleep better, wake up refreshed and be more active.”
Galileo, Newton, Kahn: All mathematicians who changed – or in Kahn’s case is changing – the world through physics. And who better to take smartphones into a new dimension? Camera phone inventor, serial entrepreneur, and sailing champion Philippe Kahn.
The former Bill Gates rival became a Silicon Valley legend when he created and built Borland, which at the time was one of the world’s most successful software companies. In those days, Kahn was an outspoken CEO and noted contrarian who fearlessly pursued his own path with the goal of affecting positive change.
Following a fall-out with the Borland board, Kahn started Starfish Software in 1994 to pioneer over-the-air (OTA) global data synchronization and integration of wireless and wireline devices. That company was purchased by Motorola and later by Nokia. In 1997, Kahn invented the camera phone and started LightSurf, which licensed the camera phone intellectual property (IP) to popular mobile device manufacturers and service providers. That company was acquired by VeriSign.
Kahn’s latest venture is Fullpower Technologies, a motion sensing technology company founded in 2003 that provides sensor-based solutions to select organizations whose power and influence are shaping modern society. Most of what Fullpower does is confidential, although its technology is seeping into public awareness as a result of popular mobile apps and partnerships with name brands.
“We are always inventing the future so we’re constantly building new IP,” said Kahn. “Because we are not in the business of consulting or making public speeches, we tend to be discreet.”
Mobile Devices Know Your Every Move
Fullpower has a technology platform and it also produces proof-of-concept Apple iOS apps that have become some of the most popular apps on the Apple iStore.
The MotionX Technology Platform supports a broad array of sensors including imaging sensors, light sensors, GPS, biosensors, altimeters, pressure sensors, toxin sensors, magnetometers, and temperature sensors with the goal of improving the human condition. It also uses predictive algorithms to anticipate the user’s next move.
When Kahn invented the camera phone, he essentially embedded an imaging sensor into a cell phone. Adding more sensors was the next logical step in the evolution of intelligent mobile devices.
“We do for ‘user motion states’ what the weather community does for predicting tropical storms,” said Kahn. “And we are continually getting better at it.”
The MotionX platform includes a motion recognition engine, a motion inference engine, an embedded physics engine, and a soft body dynamics engine.
“The two key engines are the MotionX Recognition Engine and the MotionX Inference Engine,”
said Kahn. “The MotionX Recognition Engine does for motion what a great voice recognition engine does for voice. The MotionX Inference Engine turns collections of motion states into meaningful and verified user motion states.”
The MotionX Recognition Engine is based on years of research and development focused on biomechanics and the mechanics of machine motion. The MotionX Inference Engine transforms accelerometer data into information that can be used in a predictive manner using neural networking technology, a rules-based engine, and advanced mathematical modeling. The Embedded Physics Engine models Newtonian reality (three physical laws describing the relationship between force and motion). It also provides complete 3D modeling and collision management.
Fullpower uses the Soft-Body Dynamics Engine internally to model user motion states. According to Kahn, the technology is similar to what some of the most advanced simulation machines use, but it is designed to work on mobile platforms.
Check out MotionX-GPS HD v18.0 on the App Store! Free update for existing users!
Optimizations for the new iPad:
• New retina graphics deliver the ultimate navigation experience
New improved user experience:
• Curtain menus
• Many usability enhancements
New interactive mapping features:
• Select multiple tracks and waypoints for viewing at the same time
• Show / hide groups of waypoints or tracks by folder
• Customizable track line color – choose from a palette of 32 colors
• Assign a track activity to saved tracks
SANTA CRUZ, CA— March 8, 2012 — Fullpower®-MotionX® is proud to introduce the MotionX-Sleep App for iPhone and iPod touch, available now on the App Store. MotionX-Sleep is the next-generation health and fitness app that tracks your sleep and daily activity directly from your iPhone or iPod touch.
MotionX-Sleep uses innovative third-generation MotionX technology and the sensors in your iPhone and iPod touch to analyze your sleep and help you wake-up refreshed. MotionX-Sleep picks the optimal time in your sleep cycle to wake you and helps you be more active during the day, to help you sleep better at night.
“MotionX-Sleep helps everyone sleep better and wake-up refreshed,” said Philippe Kahn, founder and CEO of Fullpower-MotionX. “Through continual innovation MotionX has developed the broadest IP portfolio for health and fitness solutions.”
Sleep Better
MotionX-Sleep visualizes your sleep with easy to understand graphs and statistics. You can now see how long it takes you to fall asleep; patterns of deep and light sleep, as well as overall sleep efficiency and quality.
Wake Up Refreshed
The MotionX smart sleep cycle alarm wakes you at the optimal time in your natural sleep cycle so that you get up feeling refreshed. Set the smart sleep cycle alarm for the time at which you want to wake-up and MotionX picks the optimal point in the 30 minutes before your set time to wake you.
Be More Active
MotionX-Sleep tracks your activity during the day, and notifies you when you’ve been sedentary too long so you can get up and move so that at night you will have better sleep. The MotionX technology keeps track of your activity, steps, distance and calories through the iPhone whether it’s in your hand, pocket, purse or backpack. MotionX-Sleep also includes a voice coach, so that you can hear your progress without looking at your iPhone display during a brisk walk.
About Fullpower-MotionX
Fullpower-MotionX leads the mobile sensing revolution with a broad IP portfolio. The MotionX® sensing platform powers leading solutions such as Nike+ GPS, the Jawbone UP wristband, and the Pioneer AppRadio. With continual innovation, MotionX is the leader for Health, Fitness and Navigation on the iPhone and the iPad.
Entrepreneur Philippe Kahn is the man you want to thank for being able to take beautiful pictures on your mobile phone.
You may recognize him from Best Buy’s recent Super Bowl commercial, which focused on his breakthrough engineering in creating the first-ever camera phone. In 1997 — when the Internet was just four years old — Kahn inserted the first point, shoot and share camera into a Motorola Startac, the most popular mobile cellphone at the time. The concept is now one of the most prominent and prized features on cellphones and smartphones worldwide.
The concept stemmed from Kahn’s desire to send a picture of his impending newborn baby to friends and family in real time. He purchased a Casio QV-10 digital camera during a time when only simple email existed and wireless bandwidth was constrained.
“I wanted to create a 21st century version of a Polaroid picture,” Kahn tells Mashable.
His creation was done just in time for his daughter’s birthday. On June 11, 1997, an image of Kahn’s new baby Sophie became the first-ever photo ever taken by a mobile phone.
Making His Way to Tech
Kahn has always had a passion for blending technology with everyday life. Born and raised in Paris, he came from a family of cabinet makers and musicians. He attributes his inspiration to French composers Nadia Boulanger and Claude Debussy — both of whom were masters at the skills they were most passionate about. With structure and creativity as a backbone to both cabinet-making and music, he developed a love for mathematics and building things that could improve certain experiences for consumers. He moved to Silicon Valley on a tourist visa and hoped to make his way into the tech world.
“The hardest part was getting started,” Kahn says. “I didn’t know anyone in California and didn’t have a Green Card, so regular jobs were not open to me. I knew nothing about business besides how we ran our cabinet shop, which included cash in a shoe box.”
He finally landed a job building printer cables: “Knowing how to build things is a very useful skill, and it wasn’t easy to create professional custom printer cables,” he adds. “Since there was no Wi-Fi at the time, everything was connected with cables, and the demand was high. I was lucky to fall into that business.”
The more printer cables he made, the more successful Kahn was. The demand became so high that he decided to hire outside help and teach others how to make the same product. He marketed “programming and technology consulting services” at a premium and ultimately landed HP as a client.
“Focusing on one thing at a time is critical to success in the tech industry,” he says. “Steve Jobs had a razor-sharp focus on Apple each day, and that really made him successful. His other interests were more of an adviser role than as a day-to-day person.”
Kahn says he is most fascinated right now by how technology can be used to improve the health of consumers.
“There are tools out there that can help people sleep better, be more active, and lead richer and more productive lives — all of which can be done without pills and prescription drugs,” Kahn says. “It’s an exciting space to be in right now, and it will be interesting to see what groundbreaking things come out of the next few years.”
The company is gearing up for a major announcement later this week that incorporates a new app for iPhone users that is three years in the making.
“I’m doing exactly what I want to do, and I live and breathe it,” he says. “When we get to do what we love with people that we respect, it makes you want to keep growing.”
About Fullpower-MotionX
Fullpower-MotionX leads the mobile sensing revolution with a broad IP portfolio. The MotionX® sensing platform powers leading solutions such as Nike+ GPS, the Jawbone UP wristband, and the Pioneer AppRadio. With continual innovation, MotionX is the leader for Health, Fitness and Navigation on the iPhone and the iPad.
All Things D – by Ina Fried
If you want to learn more about the first camera phone, the Super Bowl could be your chance.
Inventor Philippe Kahn talks about it in a Best Buy ad running in the first quarter. In a promotional video that ties in to the ad, Kahn shows his first photo, of his newborn daughter, and talks about how the technology came to be.
While not the first time a camera had been attached to a phone, Kahn notes his camera phone allowed the modern notion of instant sharing.
These days Kahn is running Fullpower Technologies, which does some motion control stuff demoed back at our D7 conference. Their MotionX software is a popular iPhone navigation app and their technology is also used in devices like Jawbone’s UP and Nike+ GPS.
SOME say, “Enough is enough.” Others say, “Too much is never enough.” When it came to the advertising bowl that took place inside Super Bowl XLVI on Sunday, enough was too much.
BEST BUY – A year after a silly Super Bowl spot with Justin Bieber and Ozzy Osbourne, Best Buy celebrated real achievement with a commercial honoring technological innovators like Philippe Kahn, who declares, “I created the camera phone,” and Kevin Systrom, a founder of the photo-sharing app Instagram.
Sometimes, in the wee hours of the night, I can’t sleep and I don’t want to read, so I occupy myself by rearranging my home screen. It’s like rearranging your kitchen cabinets without having to get out of bed. And, similar to rearranging your kitchen cabinets, it can sometimes be disorienting: you grab for the salt and you end up with a wine glass, or you tap on what used to be Soundhound and end up with Epicurious. The thing is, I have a zillion apps, and I’m always looking for the perfect arrangement for them, so scrambling my home screen is part of that eternal quest.
The third row starts with the TomTom killer: MotionX, a G.P.S. app. Unlike Maps, which comes with the phone, MotionX has turn-by-turn voice navigation (with a paid subscription). I probably use it more than almost anything else on my phone, especially now that I’m living in Los Angeles, where I don’t know my way around.
Check out MotionX-GPS v18.0 on the App Store! Free update for existing users!
What’s New for skiers/snowboarders:
• Share your Live Position Updates with friends and family on the slopes: meet-up, snowboard, ski together, keep track of your vertical, max-speed.
Heart Rate Monitoring:
• New support for Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) and ANT+ heart rate sensors
• Enhanced Voice Coaching with support for real-time heart rate feedback
New interactive mapping features:
• Select multiple tracks for viewing at the same time
• Show / hide groups of waypoints or tracks by folder
• Customizable track line color – choose from a palette of 32 colors
Now share your Live Position Updates with anyone: view the Live Updates Map on gps.MotionX.com!
