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April 21, 2006
A Startup Bill Gates Would Love
UK-based Newnham Research, a rare venture-backed PC peripheral startup, has a product Bill Gates would love. It's a device that makes it possible to add a couple of extra monitors to a PC with the ease of connecting a USB device.
Apparently the world's richest man likes to work with three monitors, so we think he'd like Newnham. According to Lunch Over IP blog, Gates uses three screens synchronized to form one single desktop, due to its positive impact on personal productivity. A screen on the left is for e-mail boxes; on the center: the message he's reading; and on the right: the browser.
If you've ever tried it, hooking up more than one monitor to a standard PC requires geek savvy. The Newnham gadget, which does not seem to be on the market yet, aims to change that.
The company has some famous founders, according to a short profile in today's EETimes. Quentin Stafford-Fraser, is a pioneer of the webcam, and Martin King, apparently the inventor of predictive text messaging commonly used on mobile phones for SMS communications. Benchmark Capital and Atlas Ventures are backing the company since last year. It got its seed funding from one of the co-founders.
Read - How Bill Gates Works (Lunch over IP blog)
Read - Cambridge startup aims to change computer display (eetimes)
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