David Rose

Product designer, serial entrepreneur, MIT Media Lab researcher

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I work with a brilliant team at Ditto Labs to add context to photographs. We use computer vision to scan Twitter/FaceBook/Instagram to discover objects, faces, expressions, and brands. We help friends do what their friends love to do through photos.

At the MIT Media Lab I continue to teach and research subtle, incidental, ambient interfaces like this line of Ambient Furniture. I enjoy speaking at conferences and companies about product innovation and enchanted objects.

Previously, I co-founded and was CEO at Vitality, a wireless healthcare company that makes the award-winning GlowCap, the first Internet-connected medication packaging. Vitality was acquired in 2011.

In 2002 I founded and was CEO of Ambient Devices which embeds Internet information in everyday objects like the Ambient Orb, umbrellas, and digital post-it notes, to track the weather, pollen, traffic, and energy consumption. Today Ambient encourages conservation with the Energy Joule, distributed by energy companies.

In 1999 I led Viant’s Innovation Center, an advanced technology group for Fortune 500s including Sony, GM, Schwab, Sprint and Kinkos, and helped build Viant to over 900 people and a successful IPO.

In 1997 Neil Mayle and I were the first to develop and patent online photo-sharing (acquired by FlashPoint Technology).

In 1992 I started Interactive Factory (acquired by RDW Group) which still creates museum exhibits, software and smart toys, including the award-winning LEGO Mindstorms Robotic Invention System.

Until recently I was a tenor in the Tanglewood Festival Chorus that sings with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, and I currently enjoy performing with the Copley Singers.