Phone Halo, a top 25 finalist in the Mobile App Showdown. The Mobile App Showdown is the showcase for 25 of the hottest applications at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas on January 8th. A panel of 10 expert judges picked the top 25 applications out of 130 entrants for the public to vote [...]
What is CES 2011? The Consumer Electronics Show is the yearly event where the consumer technology industry gathers to debut the latest and greatest gadgets. My excitement for CES grows daily as people all over the world are talking about #CES on Twitter Walls of flat screens. More types of iPhone cases then one can [...]
Phone Halo is no weak device, thanks to a bit of mechanical strength design. The Phone Halo mechanical design process During the design process, the constraints for the casing were size and strength. The device needed to carry a gallon of milk without being bulky or obtrusive in shape. Strength and size create a tricky [...]
Mobile hardware vs. mobile software This was my first computer, it the antithesis of the chic mobile hardware available today. I don’t remember the hardware, but the software left me with a vivid experience of the digital world. The further we are removed from dealing with hardware and devices and the more we can be [...]
Failure is fuel | entrepreneurship The start-up environment is amazing and exhilarating. The flip side of the coin is founding a company is also one of the most stressful things I have ever done. There is no certainty of what is going to happen tomorrow. Things are looking good and you plug away just to [...]
Track Lost Phone | Prevent loss Ever notice man’s fascination with maps? Ever since the beginning of time, man has wanted to design systems to determine location and track whereabouts. Tracking a lost phone is a modern daily requirement. Consider that this was an issue of survival. Knowing where you were and the weather [...]
Asset Tracking | Lost Phone Phone Halo offers asset tracking through your existing smart phone For quite some time, insurance and development companies have been creating systems to protect assets through RFID technology. This makes perfect sense as RFID is very low power and provides a wide range of applications. Phone Halo’s patented bluetooth system [...]
One of the key attributes to any successful team is putting people in the right roles. In the case of the entrepreneur, you have to put yourself in that role. In order to be successful, you have to “know yourself”, in latin “Temet Nosce”. Phone Halo’s team works because we are so different and our [...]
Jacques Habra, CEO of Phone Halo, delineates the Phone Halo 2010 DEMO experience from a few weeks prior to the event to several weeks after.
Cell phones are not simply a phone and address book, the handsets most people carry are converged mobile devices able to pull, store and move data.