Mezmeriz in the News
June/July 2008
Central New York Business Exchange
Emerging Potential Mesmerizes judges in creative core competitiony
"the business potential for Mezmeriz's new device was obvious to the judges of the New York's Creative Core Emerging Business Competition, which awarded its $100,000 grand prize to the Ithaca-based Mezmeriz in April"
April 2008
The Post-Standard
Tiny Technology
"When Cornell University graduate Shahyaan Desai developed a high-definition video display technology using tiny mirrors, he formed a company with business executive Brad Treat to bring it to the marketplace.."
April 2008
WENY-TV
Ithaca Company Wins "Emerging Business" Award
"People want higher [resolution.] Because they're reading, they're doing Powerpoint presentations, they're watching movies on the go. Mezmeriz technology will allow them to do that."
April 2008
News 10 Now
Ithaca company wins emerging business competition
"An Ithaca firm has won a $100000 competition among emerging businesses in Central New York."
April 2008
The Post-Standard
Ithaca company wins $100000 prize
"Chief Executive Officer Brad Treat has said the product has a huge potential market -- just about every mobile device with a video screen."
April 2008
WSYR-TV
Emerging Business Competition finalists announced
"The new Mezmeriz mirror is made possible due to a breakthrough in MEMS fabrication and design developed at Cornell."
April/May 2008
Central New York Business Exchange
Mezmeriz
"The idea of using carbon fibers to support tiny, fast-rotating mirrors came to Shahyaan Desai while he was an undergraduate at Cornell."
March 2008
Semiconductor Times
Mezmeriz
"Mezmeriz was founded to develop micromirror technology for HD displays. The research behind Mezmeriz started in 2002 while Shahyaan Desai was working on his Masters of Materials Science at Cornell."
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February 2008
The Post-Standard
Ithaca start-up hopes to improve HD display
"Excell Partners Inc., a state-sponsored seed fund based in Rochester, said this week it has invested in Mezmeriz Inc., an Ithaca start-up that has developed a technology it says will enable a new generation of high-definition displays."
February 2008
Dow Jones Venture Wire
IMicroprojector Co. Mezmeriz Raises Seed
"Mezmeriz, a developer of small-scale image projection technology, has raised its first round of funding from a consortium of six upstate New York firms.""
February 2008
The Central New York Business Journal
Mezmeriz obtains first outside financing
"A local startup company commercializing new high-definition television technology will use its first round of outside financing to move closer to commercialization."
February 2008
The Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
Mezmeriz Inc. to stay in New York after bidding war
"Mezmeriz Inc., based in Ithaca, is working on technology that replaces silicon with carbon fibers in micro-electronic mechanical systems, which would allow for thinner and lower-cost high-definition displays."
May 2007
The Central New York Business Journal
Mezmeriz works to develop new HD TV system by Kevin Tapone
"Carbon fiber, when stressed, doesn't give you a lot of resistance so you can be very energy efficient," Treat says. "It also doesn't break the way silicon does." The end result is a much stronger device that is more energy-efficient and can stand up to the demands of a high-definition signal, he explains.
December 2006
MIT Technology Review
The Year in Infotech; Technology Review picks the year's most significant
advances in information technology
by Kate Greene
"While mobile devices have lots of storage space for pictures and videos, the small screen still makes viewing media awkward. But that could soon change.... Researchers at Cornell University are working on tiny microelectromechanical systems to create small, efficient projectors."
September 2006
MIT Technology Review
High-Definition TV from your Cell Phone; New MEMS technology could lead
to dime-sized, high-resolution projectors.
by Kevin Bullis
"A cell phone that can project a high-definition television image could soon be possible, say researchers at Cornell University who have developed a new microelectromechanical system (MEMS) for rapidly scanning wide areas with a laser. A projector based on the device would be about the size of dime and could cast a meter-wide image on a surface only half a meter away."
August 2006
Engadget
Cornell researchers building video projector on a chip
by Paul Miller
"We've seen plenty of tiny projector concepts over the past couple of years, but some researchers at Cornell University are taking this idea to its logical extreme by building a whole display on a single chip."
August 2006
Cornell Chronicle
Cornell researchers test carbon fiber to make tiny, cheap video displays
By Bill Steele
"An oscillating mirror could be used to scan a laser beam across a screen, and an array of mirrors, one for each horizontal line, could produce an image in the same way that a moving electron beam creates an image on a television screen."