Private company | |
Industry | Electronics |
Founded | 2003 |
Headquarters | Chicago, Illinois, United States |
Key people
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Joe Born, Founder, chairman and CEO |
Products | Multimedia players, set-top boxes |
Website | www |
Joe Born, Founder, chairman and CEO
Neuros Technology is a Chicago, Illinois–based company that produces a number of audio and video devices with the brand name Neuros. Founded by Joe Born in 2001 as a division of Digital Innovations and previously operated under the name Neuros Audio. Like Digital Innovations, Neuros is distinguished by its use of open-innovation and crowdsourcing techniques in bringing products to market, as well as its prominent use of open-source software and open-source hardware. In its development model, end users are involved throughout the product development process from reviewing initial concepts to Beta testing initial product releases.
The Neuros LINK is an open set-top device designed to bring Internet television and other video to the television, it comes pre-installed with XBMC Media Center. The Neuros LINK supports the web's open standards allows Internet television sites to be viewed directly on a television set. The Neuros LINK is positioned between three categories, a HTPC (Home Theater PC), digital media receiver (a.k.a. media extender), and the standard Internet-to-television devices or set-top-boxes. It is open and allows access to all content sources using software and hardware components from a PC, but positioned as a lower cost, smaller consumer electronics device designed to be connected to a television set.
The Neuros OSD is a device to archive, organize, and play video content. It can record from any source with composite output including DVD players, VCRs and others. The video input is converted to MP4 format and then output to a user-installed device, either a memory card, a USB flash drive or USB hard drive, or to a network-connected PC. The resulting MP4 files can then be played back by the OSD on a TV, or by other devices with MP4 playback capability such as Sony's PlayStation Portable, Apple's iPod, Neuros 442 and other portable devices.