MIT spins out another Kickstarter hit
Posted: Wed Jun 18, 2014 7:01 pm
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Yesterday, Kyle Alspach reported that Dragon Innovation was shifting its focus away from its Kickstarter-like hardware crowdfunding services and into providing what it is calling “manufacturability” services for crowdfunding projects.
One local company, Belleds Technologies, launched a Kickstarter campaign Monday night that has the official certification from Dragon Innovation as a hardware crowdfunding partner. (They even have a nifty little badge on the campaign site acknowledging that they are “Dragon Certified.”)
Belleds, borne out of MIT and the MIT Martin Trust Center for Entrepreneurship, makes a smart home lighting system that consists of energy efficient LED lights and a central hub that connects, through a mobile device, music to the “mood” lighting. The “Q,” as Belleds is calling the device, can create light shows that “intelligently” react to song choice, can create certain light patterns based on a user’s mood, and can create customized light shows based on playlists.