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Wear Them, Forget Them

A prolific inventor argues that we are on the cusp of an explosion in truly useful and unencumbering wearable devices Scientific American, July 2013 Issue Forum by Philippe Kahn Click here to read the full article in PDF format

Cómo se creó la primera cámara para teléfonos celulares (En Español)

Entrevistamos al francés Philippe Kahn, que cuenta los detalles del prototipo que en 1997 le permitió compartir la foto digital del nacimiento de su hija y los desafíos que enfrentó la tecnología para posicionarse en la industria móvil Por Guillermo Tomoyose | LA NACION En las cuatro décadas de vida del celular, existe una prestación…

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MotionX Announced As Top 25 All-Time Paid App for iPhone

SANTA CRUZ, CA–(Marketwire – May 7, 2013) – As the Apple® App Store approaches 50 billion downloads, Fullpower® is proud to share that MotionX®-GPS Drive was just announced as one of the Top 25 All-Time Paid Apps for iPhone®. About Fullpower and the MotionX Technology PlatformFounded in 2003 by a world-class team, Fullpower’s MotionX technology…

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Inventor Philippe Kahn on Audacity, Talent, and Luck

An email interview with the serial entrepreneur behind the technology inside the Jawbone Up fitness-tracking wristband. Lewis Schiff, Inc.com In 1983, Philippe Kahn emigrated from France to the United States with just $2,000, and a software program he co-created called Turbo Pascal. The company he built around that program, Borland International, sold for $75 million…

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Fullpower® Receives Key Patents Covering MotionX Technologies For Wearable Non-Invasive Medical Devices

SAN FRANCISCO, CA–(Marketwire – Jan 7, 2013) – Fullpower® today announced it has received a collection of patents covering key breakthrough technologies for wearable non-invasive medical devices.”The next social paradigm-shift is non-invasive wearable wireless medical devices and applications,” said Philippe Kahn founder and CEO of Fullpower. “It’s all about invention, innovation and IP. The combination…

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Pegasus-MotionX Wins Moore 24 PCCs

Great Pegasus MotionX 24 team. Mark Christensen , Cole Kerby David Giles and Philippe… A great 3 day regatta with huge conditions on day one. Great class, very close racing, skillful boats!

Transpac 2011

Click to View the Official Pegasus Results and Race Log   Q and A time With Pegasus’s Philippe Kahn, Published on 07-09-2011 06:18 AM Earlier this year we got a glimpse of the past playing with the future when Philippe Kahn’s freshly remodified Alan Andrew’s 70′ came out of the shed from Southern California’s Dencho…

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Pegasus Sets New Double-Handed San Francisco to Hawaii Record

HONOLULU, HI–(Marketwire – July 30, 2008) – The Waikiki Yacht Club announced today that Skipper Philippe Kahn, with co-skipper Richard Clarke of Canada, set a new record for the 2008 Pacific Cup race of 7 days, 15 hours, 17 minutes and 50 seconds. The prior record was set by Volvo Ocean Race winner Stan Honey in 1992.

Pegasus Wins the 18′ Skiff European Championships

Pegasus Wins the 18′ Skiff European Championships (European Grand-Prix) The last two days of the European 18ft Skiff Grand Prix on Lake Garda have had mixed conditions. Wednesday bought with it some lighter conditions, with the only race of the day sailed in a building 6-9knot breeze. But no change at the front of the…

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Pegasus Wins 2007 Fullpower Melges 24 World Championship

Pegasus Racing Wins the 2007 Fullpoer Melges 24 World Championship in Santa Cruz, California! Race Results 2007 Melges 24 World Championship RegattaSanta Cruz Yacht Club, California, USA, May 05 – 12 2007 2007 Fullpower Melges 24 Worlds Race Results POSITION BOAT NAME SAIL NUMBER HELMSMAN 1 Pegasus 505 USA David Ullman 2 Full Throttle USA…

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Countdown to Fullpower Melges 24 Worlds

The countdown to the start of world championship racing in the International Melges 24 Class next spring has started at the Santa Cruz Yacht Club with a significant note: make it the Fullpower Melges 24 World Championship for 2007. Fullpower Technologies, a new wireless nanotechnology biotech company based in Santa Cruz, is fully onboard as…

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Hamlin wins 18ft skiffs in San Francisco

The 18′ Skiff International Regatta wasn’t quite a changing of the guard, Howard Hamlin, 53, was the winning skipper for the third time in five years -but if runner-up Samuel (Shark) Kahn, 17, is the wave if the future, that’s fine with Howie.

Naugural Rolex TP52 Global Championship

International yacht racing at its highest, most competitive level comes to Miami for the 2006 Rolex TP52 Global Championship. Set for March 7-12 during Acura Miami Race Week, the inaugural championship welcomes a fleet representing England, Ireland, Hong Kong and the U.S, abounding with the world’s top sailors from the America’s Cup and Olympics. The racing series consists of short windward/leeward and longer, offshore races that will take the fleet to the Bahamas and back.

DAVE ULLMAN ON PEGASUS RACING WINS KEY WEST RACE WEEK

20 January 2006, Key West, FL • Congratulations go to Dave Ullman aboard Pegasus 505, one of three Pegasus racing yachts on the Melges 24 course. Ullman won the 2006 ACURA Melges 24 Key West Race Week division four points ahead of Chris Rast at the helm for Franco Rossini on Blu Moon and nine…

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Pegasus Wins St. Francis Perpetual Trophy

– St. Francis Yacht Club There were 103 boats racing in four IRC and five one-design classes at the Rolex Big Boat Series on San Francisco Bay, and they got what they came for. Although much of the regatta was sailed in wind of under 20 knots, it was full breeze-on for the two races…

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Pegasus Wins Waikiki Offshore Series

The 2005 Waikiki Offshore Series finished Saturday with two windward leeward races off Waikiki. The medium trade winds and small seas were a welcome relief from the 8 – 12 foot seas and 35+ kts winds that challenged the racers all week.

Pegasus Racing wins 29er Worlds

Australia’s Jacqui Bonnitcha and Euan McNicol have taken out the 29er World Championship that was sailed on San Francisco Bay this past week.

Pegasus Racing Wins 18ft VelamareSkiff Cup!!!!!

‘Pegasus Racing’ made this regatta their own by winning the two final races of the series yesterday afternoon (Friday). The emphatic nature of their victory was all the more remarkable for the fact that they won five of the ten races in the series. Howie and Mike, from southern California, have won the world title…

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‘Eat My Wake’

It was the moment every parent dreads. Philippe Kahn watched, crestfallen, as his son committed a transgression so grave, so obvious, that he had no choice but to administer drastic punishment.

‘SHARK ATTACK’

-SSANGYONG JJ GILTINAN 18ft SKIFF CHAMPIONSHIP 15-year-old American sailor Samuel ‘Shark’ Khan will become the youngest person ever to skipper an 18ft Skiff when he lines up on Saturday in the first heat of the JJ Giltinan (world) Championship on Sydney Harbour. ‘Shark’ will skipper ‘Pegasus Racing’ against the world’s best skiff sailors. Although new…

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