David Rose Quotes

Ambient Devices develops a new generation of consumer electronic products.

Most of us feel overburdened by information, although I would say the overloaded feeling comes more from coordinating all of the information and responding to it.

You always want to know if there going to be remarkably bad traffic on the way home so that you can change your route home or change your schedule.

We target people who understand that relationships are the lifeline of a small company.

We initially targeted pager networks, which have been suffering for the last decade due to cell phone sales.

All of the devices work out of the box without any subscription fee.

Our criteria for good data feeds are that they need to be dynamic enough to be interesting, something that users want to attune to throughout the day, etc.

The orb allows for constant dynamic feedback.

The orbs create feedback loops that can influence either personal of employee behavior.

An Ambient Devices orb, which is tuned to a specific traffic commute allows you to see whether traffic is better or worse than you would expect.

Ambient Devices is what I call part of the Third Wave of Internet devices.

I think one of the most important attributes is perseverance.

Every time we bring someone in we ensure that they are a strategic thinker, but even more important that they understand that if the products aren`t successful and the products don`t sell that there won`t be anything to strategize about.

We created the ability for people to insert enterprise or personal data.

Pager companies are very much looking to provide new services to help them regain some of their customer base.

We are extremely attractive to page companies, because we significantly increase their user base.

Our system allows you to respond to the information that is important to you. It allows you to sense and be attuned to more streams of information in parallel.

As a small company our fastest way to market was going to be by working with other retailers that were known for pioneering new technologies and categories.

The orbs have probably sold better through catalogs because they can be categorized unlike at most stores.

There will be hundreds of new companies that will be created to develop these very simple data devices.

People understand the product when they see it in the CEOs office and in context and it has been widely successful via word of mouth.

There are already a lot of devices in our lives that have rich text or the ability to handle graphics. Our devices are designed to be understood in less than a quarter of a second.

Integral to the orb is our low cost long-range wireless radio data system and a protocol that allows us to send this data over 90% of the US population every 15 minutes throughout the day.

It is hard to check five email inboxes, three voice mail systems, or five blogs that you are tracking.