Four years ago, investors rejected Rami Parham’s concept of a wearable device for interacting with one’s digital environment based on finger movement sensing. But he didn’t give up, and when the wearable technology wave hit in 2013, Parham’s MUV Interactive was in the right place at the right time.

In June, MUV will start shipping its ring-like Bird to the few thousand customers who pre-ordered the revolutionary wearable. Later on, MUV will launch Sphere, a device that is installed on the ceiling (like a light bulb) to project content from connected devices onto any surface via touch, motion and voice. Coupled with Bird, Sphere will enable users to answer the phone by tapping on a chair, or watch TV on a kitchen counter, heralding a new way of living enhanced by the Internet of Things (IoT).

“This startup can turn your sofa into a smartphone,” predicted Bloomberg Business. While, Gartner listed the Israeli company as a “Cool Vendor in Human-Machine Interface.”

The 29-year-old CEO likens his invention to a new-age mouse to control every device you own. “Bird can actually sense what your fingers are doing, where you are in the room exactly, and where you’re pointing right down to resolution of a pixel, so we can enable you to touch any of your devices remotely, turning any display into a touch screen,” Parham explains. “You only need this one simple Bluetooth-connected device to enable the entire spectrum of interaction.” Israeli companies have played a major role in developing the sensors that power today’s games and gadgets. Companies such as PrimeSense  and Omek Interactive enjoyed multimillion-dollar buyouts for their optical sensor technologies. Parham and his team of 30 developers spent two years figuring out how to pack a variety of sensors inside a single device, making Bird a veritable magic wand. (via Israel21c)

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