Karlheinz Brandenburg, co-creator of the MP3, is now looking to help make "dumb" players use cloud-based technology to enhance the features offered to consumers.
Brandenburg is now a professor at Ilmenau University of Technology, and hopes Perfect Stream -- which can help products "think" -- will be picked up by OEMs. The company has received good publicity in Germany and attended CES in Las Vegas to woo ISPs in the United States.
Perfect Stream allows users to arrange shows, music, Twitter feeds, news sources, and then the technology shares it with mobile phones, in-car navigation systems, game consoles, and additional consumer gadgets.
If approved, most gadgets that have Internet access will be able to use Perfect Stream technology, while the company actively seeks OEMs to partner with.
"This technology works and now we are trying to internationalize it," said Nikolas Samios, a company official with Perfect Stream, in a statement to AFP. "It bridges the different technologies. These are all walled-garden devices that usually never talk to each other."
I'm curious to see what kind of technology Perfect Stream comes up with, as consumers look for methods to sync their entertainment experience across multiple platforms. As long as consumers don't end up having to pay a significantly higher price tag for products, this could end up being a great feature.
