Joe Born
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Joe Born
As CEO of Neuros Technology
, and contributing inventor to many of its products, Joe Born has advocated on behalf of open source hardware
, digital rights and generally on the subject of connecting global teams and innovating in the electronics industry using open source.
, Joe Born founded Digital Innovations, LLC
. With an original investment of $15,000 the company was created to commercialize the skipdoctor invention. Joined in 1996 by Collin Anderson, they brought the invention to market in 1999, and as of December 2008 had sold 8 million units of the SkipDoctor globally.
In September 2001 the Neuros division was started within Digital Innovations to develop open digital media products. In December 2003, Neuros was spun off into a separate entity, Neuros Technology, LLC. Influenced by its developer community, Joe Born, as Chief of Neuros, has become a pioneer in the field of open source hardware, helping to influence many of its partners to become more open, including successfully lobbying Texas Instruments
to release a free compiler for a previously closed Digital Signal Processor
Speaking engagements are typically focused on using open source to foster innovation and bring new products to market and include: Ohio Linux Fest, LinuxWorld, LugRadioLive, Various Linux User Groups & University of Chicago China Immersion program and Kellogg's Masters of Management in Manufacturing Program.
In addition to consumer electronics, Born has also received patents in areas ranging from internal combustion engine components to cosmetic accessories.
As CEO of Neuros Technology
Neuros Technology
Neuros Technology is a Chicago, Illinois-based company that produces a number of audio and video devices with the brand name Neuros. Founded by Joe Born in 2001 as a division of Digital Innovations and previously operated under the name Neuros Audio...
, and contributing inventor to many of its products, Joe Born has advocated on behalf of open source hardware
Open source hardware
Open source hardware consists of physical artifacts of technology designed and offered in the same manner as free and open source software . Open source hardware is part of the open source culture movement and applies a like concept to a variety of components. The term usually means that...
, digital rights and generally on the subject of connecting global teams and innovating in the electronics industry using open source.
Professional Accomplishments
In 1995, after receiving a patent for a CD repair device, later named the SkipDoctorSkip Doctor
SkipDR is the trademarked brand name for the Digital Innovations product that repairs scratched audio compact discs, movie and game DVDs, photo and data discs. The SkipDR operates by polishing the play-side polycarbonate surface of the discs with a specialized microfrictional material mounted on a...
, Joe Born founded Digital Innovations, LLC
Digital Innovations
Digital Innovations is a consumer electronics company that produced the SkipDR and Neuros product lines. It sells a relatively broad line of electronics and computer peripherals under the Digital Innovations, SkipDR, and Micro Innovations brands...
. With an original investment of $15,000 the company was created to commercialize the skipdoctor invention. Joined in 1996 by Collin Anderson, they brought the invention to market in 1999, and as of December 2008 had sold 8 million units of the SkipDoctor globally.
In September 2001 the Neuros division was started within Digital Innovations to develop open digital media products. In December 2003, Neuros was spun off into a separate entity, Neuros Technology, LLC. Influenced by its developer community, Joe Born, as Chief of Neuros, has become a pioneer in the field of open source hardware, helping to influence many of its partners to become more open, including successfully lobbying Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments Inc. , widely known as TI, is an American company based in Dallas, Texas, United States, which develops and commercializes semiconductor and computer technology...
to release a free compiler for a previously closed Digital Signal Processor
Digital signal processor
A digital signal processor is a specialized microprocessor with an architecture optimized for the fast operational needs of digital signal processing.-Typical characteristics:...
Speaking engagements are typically focused on using open source to foster innovation and bring new products to market and include: Ohio Linux Fest, LinuxWorld, LugRadioLive, Various Linux User Groups & University of Chicago China Immersion program and Kellogg's Masters of Management in Manufacturing Program.
In addition to consumer electronics, Born has also received patents in areas ranging from internal combustion engine components to cosmetic accessories.
External links
- Joe Born's blog
- "Open Sesame" -(The EconomistThe EconomistThe Economist is an English-language weekly news and international affairs publication owned by The Economist Newspaper Ltd. and edited in offices in the City of Westminster, London, England. Continuous publication began under founder James Wilson in September 1843...
Story on open source hardware) - Newsforge Article on Neuros Open Source Approach to Hardware and Software Development
- Linux Link Tech Show interview (audio), 2006
- "What This Gadget Can Do Is Up to You" -(New York Times review of the Neuros OSD)
- "The Ultimate Music Buff" -(Business 2.0 coverage of Digital Innovations)