Franklin-based iGlobe makes the whole planet accessible
Phil Lelyveld
[Concord Monitor]
… iGlobe is one of five companies vying for the N.H. High Tech Council’s Product of the Year award.
… For iGlobe, company officials will show off PersonalPlanet, a 3D educational, spherical display technology. With an iMac, an iPad and a specially designed lens, PersonalPlanet projects a high resolution, full-color 3D image of Earth and other celestial bodies into the center of a room. Using open source databases, students can layer real time information – such as weather patterns – onto the projection to learn more about that phenomena, said Todd Estey, partner at iGlobe.
He said company owners Matt and Marc Lalley had a vision when they started developing PersonalPlanet in 2006: to allow the public to view Earth and other celestial bodies as seen from space in a way that was affordable and outside the confines of a museum or science center. …
