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"  What was your ultimate plan for the technology when you decided to make the NODE?  The overarching goal is quite a lofty one: to give humans superhuman senses, to bring in the data that humans cannot perceive or measure or sense by our natural capabilities. That&amp;#039;s what this device is meant to do.   There are a lot of things to sense. We live in a very complex world. There are a lot of things that people deal with everyday but they&amp;#039;re not quite aware of what&amp;#039;s going on. So we&amp;#039;re building tools to let professionals be more aware of these properties, be more aware of their environments, and that goes for consumers as well.  How did this new CHROMA project come about?  CHROMA first came out as a Kickstarter campaign, and we came out with the idea in the fall 2012. We thought, wouldn&amp;#039;t it be great if people could actually measure color and you don&amp;#039;t have to take the paint sample to the storeyou can just digitize that information on your phone? That was the premise, and we were pretty ambitious and set off on that direction. So in the fall we created the beta unit of the CHROMA [Kickstarter backers] pointed out that the CHROMA worked differently under different temperatures, so we made a modification in the final release, adding a white calibration cap to help it calibrate under different temperatures to make it more accurate.   Were you worried that consumers wouldn&amp;#039;t know what to do with this technology when it was first released?  We&amp;#039;ve had some interesting feedback. I think there were a lot of consumers saying that this was really cool and they loved it, but they weren&amp;#039;t quite sure what to do with it. So we started getting a lot of consumers who were gadget guys and at the same time they have a professional career in doing certain things. Those guys gave feedback saying wow, I could be using this on my job and save so much time. I do temperature measurements all the time.&amp;quot; Things like that were coming to light.  So you&amp;#039;re leaning toward marketing NODE as a professional tool rather than a consumer tech gadget?  We want it to be a little bit of both. We want it to be affordable enough so it&amp;#039;s accessible to people. I grew up and came out of this professional industry where it&amp;#039;s impossible to afford anything as a consumer. Unless you&amp;#039;re a professional, you can&amp;#039;t afford any of that stuff. I want these devices to be accessible to consumers, but primarily where the money is going to come from is going to be from the professional space.  Do you have any ideas for new sensors? How do you decide what to make?  Yes we do. Everyday we get multiple requests from our user base saying we would like this module.&amp;quot; We&amp;#039;ll put it on a grid system, and it&amp;#039;s the combination of that and, what can we achieve with current technology. What&amp;#039;s affordable to make? There are some crazy things that can be done, but they&amp;#039;re so out of the realm of our abilities. We&amp;#039;re not interested in making something that people can&amp;#039;t get access to.   We&amp;#039;ve definitely noticed that people want things that they can already perceive, but cannot measure, so things like distance or noise level or temperature. That&amp;#039;s what people love to have first. And then we can move to things that they can&amp;#039;t perceive on their own, but they&amp;#039;d like to have a device that can perceive it for them, such as radiation and gasses. That&amp;#039;s where we go from.   One of the technologies we&amp;#039;ve been following very closely and have been thinking about and have purposefully stayed away from is the personal health or medical technologies. We have been staying away from it and carefully observing that space because we&amp;#039;re an adaptable platform. We could easily integrate medical or biological sensing into our system, but we&amp;#039;ve decided not to because there are regulatory restraints and restrictions.   [Editor&amp;#039;s Note: Read more about Yu and Node in the May 2013 PopMech feature Get Startup Savvy: Lessons From the New Manufacturing Revolution.] "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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