Golden-i® Recognized as Leading Product Innovation at International
Futurists Conference
TAUNTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Kopin® Corporation (NASDAQ: KOPN) today announced that
Golden-i®, the hands-free cloud computing headset in
development with Motorola
Solutions, Inc., has captured the “Best in Show” and “Most
Buyable” awards of the inventions showcased at Futurists:
BetaLaunch, the premier launch event for cutting-edge technology
from the world’s future thinkers. The Golden-i headset was also voted by
attendees as the invention that “makes me feel like I’m in the future,
now!”
“We are thrilled and honored that Golden-i has been recognized with
these awards by the World Future Society and its members,” said Kopin
President and Chief Executive Officer Dr. John C.C. Fan. “With a 15-inch
virtual screen image that is controlled by voice and head motion, the
compact hands-free Golden-i headset is the ultimate mobile computer!
From the automobile industry to the energy market, from industrial
design to mobile gaming, we believe the possibilities and applications
for Golden-i are boundless.”
“The ubiquity of network connectivity has resulted in an ‘everyone and
everything connected world’ – a fabric by which we are all connected
resulting in crowd-based collective intelligence,” said Tom Bianculli,
Senior Director, Emerging Business, Chief Technology Office, Motorola
Solutions. “We have seen user interfaces migrate from textual to
graphical and now to natural utilizing gestures, speech recognition and
a blending of the digital and physical worlds by leveraging augmented
reality to quickly and simply provide end users with the right
information at the right time. We believe Golden-i is uniquely
positioned to capitalize on this confluence of technology trends in a
way that will revolutionize how field service and public safety workers
get access to better, faster situational awareness.”
About Kopin
Kopin Corporation’s voice-activated, wireless, hands-free Golden-i®
mobile computing headsets, power-efficient, ultra-small liquid crystal
displays and heterojunction bipolar transistors (HBTs) are
revolutionizing the way people around the world see, hear and
communicate. Kopin has shipped more than 30 million displays for a range
of consumer and military applications including digital cameras,
personal video eyewear, camcorders, thermal weapon sights and night
vision systems. The innovative Golden-i computing headsets are
generating strong interest in industrial, medical, military, homeland
security and utility applications. The Company’s unique HBTs help to
enhance battery life, talk time and signal clarity, and have been
integrated into billions of wireless handsets as well as into WiFi, VoIP
and high-speed Internet data transmission systems. Kopin’s proprietary
display, Golden-i and III-V technologies are protected by more than 200
global patents and patents pending. For more information, please visit
Kopin's website at www.kopin.com.
Kopin, Golden-i and The NanoSemiconductor Company are trademarks of
Kopin Corporation.
Forward-Looking Statements
Statements in this news release about future expectations for
Golden-i may be considered “forward-looking” statements under the “Safe
Harbor” provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of
1995. These statements involve a number of risks and uncertainties that
could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed in
the forward-looking statements. These include statements relating to
Golden-i headset being the ultimate mobile computer; the Company’s
belief that the possibilities for Golden-i are boundless; and the belief
that Golden-i is uniquely positioned to capitalize on a
confluence of technology trends in a way that will revolutionize how
field service and public safety workers get access to better, faster
situational awareness. These risks and uncertainties
include, but are not limited to, the potential that: the Company’s
efforts to roll out Golden-i may be delayed or might be
unsuccessful; the Company may be unable to produce Golden-i in
the necessary volumes; the relationship between Kopin and its Golden-i
technology partners may not be successful, or prospective customers
may be unwilling to purchase the product; the Company will be adversely
affected by competitive products and pricing; new product initiatives
and other research and development efforts may not be successful; the
Company could experience the loss of significant customers;
manufacturing delays, technical issues, economic conditions or external
factors may prevent the Company from achieving its objectives; and other
risk factors and cautionary statements listed in the Company’s periodic
reports and registration statements filed with the Securities and
Exchange Commission, including the Annual Report on Form 10-K for the 12
months ended December 25, 2010, and the Company’s subsequent filings
with the Securities and Exchange Commission. You should not place undue
reliance on any forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the
date on which they are made. The Company undertakes no responsibility to
update any of these forward-looking statements to reflect events or
circumstances occurring after the date of this report.
Kopin – The NanoSemiconductor Company®
Source: Kopin