Charmed Technology

Los Angeles-based Charmed Technology is an MIT Media Lab spin-off and is poised to be a world leader in affordable, wearable Internet products, services and technologies. As part of its strategic business plan, the company has established strategic partnerships with companies such as Penton Media/IntemetWorld, Red Herring, MIT's Media Lab, the University of Rochester Center for Future Health, Motorola and others. With these partners, the company is working to develop miniaturized devices with Internet connection and powerful computer capabilities.

The Charmed Technology vision is to incorporate the unwired Internet into fashion, lifestyle and health applications by creating inexpensive wireless mobile devices that will allow individuals to access the World Wide Web anywhere and anytime through wireless technology. With enabling technologies already in place. Charmed Technology plans to completely penetrate the market, revolutionizing the way people interact with each other through wireless Internet communications.

As the pioneer of the smallest, most economical platform for Internet services. Charmed Technology will allow individuals to be connected to the Internet via their eyeglasses, necklaces, or lapel pin, even a child's toy. The first product manufactured by Charmed Technology is "Charmed Badge," an electronic business card that can upload and transmit user information through infrared technology.

Brave New Unwired World To showcase advances in wireless mobile technology, Charmed Technology produces "Brave New Unwired World" fashion shows in conjunction with Internet World. These shows provide the best global platform for companies with mobile/wireless technologies and Internet innovators seeking to increase exposure with consumers internationally.

The 1999 "Brave New Unwired World" shows have received massive publicity and media coverage. In its first year, debuting at only two Internet World shows, in New York and Hong Kong, "Unwired World" generated vast exposure with millions of consumers worldwide through television. Web, radio and print publicity. This year, due to last year's success, Charmed Technology, through a relationship with Penton Media, will debut "Brave New Unwired World" at every major Internet World show worldwide.