I attended a meet-up presenting some start-ups and products around the Kinetec recently. Kinetec-like devices have the potential to make accurate 3D data acquisition faster, quicker, cheaper. MatterPort shows great promise of the kind of tools available to architects in the near future. The iClone mocap plug-in has a potential to end-up in every video game studio requiring motion capture (mocap).

I also like 3gearSystems as an enabler for professionals that require precise computer interaction in constraint environments, like doctors in the middle of a surgery. I had already written about the wii and gamification as a way to teach laparoscopy procedures. Health-care is a huge consumer technologies and also a place with a disproportionate number of people that cannot write software versus those that can. From big data to games, its one of the growing field prime for technology innovators.