When he's not rocking out karaoke-style to appease his Japanese business partners, he's locked in the "Idea Lab" of Cupertino, California-based Encrio Inc., inventing things like Push-to-Talk and flash memory...five years before their applications were even conceivable. Now if I could only get Nagesh Challa to stop stealing my IP...
He now has his sights set on solving the problem shown in the picture above: clutter. Wallets filled with credit cards, coupons, movie tickets, boarding passes--to Challa there's a solution, and its in our phones.
People have tried without success to figure out a way for phones to carry around barcodes for quite some time. The brick wall was always in reading the code; the scanner would always pick up light reflections from the phone's screen, making the code unreadable. Then Challa noticed that little LED light that blinks on the top of the handset. And so MoBeam was created. The technology uses LED light that mimics the sequences of the bar code, so you can carry your credit card, boarding pass and online movie tickets around in one gadget. Pretty handy. Could we make that a TV remote as well? I'm tired of flipping cushions.
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