Ambient Devices Announces Personal Dashboards

Changeable Display Faces Automatically Track Stocks, Sports, Weather, E-mail and More

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Jan. 8 -- Ambient Devices, the leader in glanceable information displays, announced a line of personal dashboards at the International Consumer Electronics Show (MIT MediaLab Booth # 22905, 23105) that show up-to-the-minute customized information from the Internet on meter-like displays with a needle that fluctuates as information changes.

The Ambient Dashboard is as easy to read as an analog clock, but with the power of wireless digital information. The Ambient Dashboard uses swappable analog display faces to show digital information being broadcast from Ambient's nationwide wireless network. Three initial dashboards will offer customers the opportunity to track the information they care about most:

   -- Executive Dashboard - Tracks traffic congestion on your route home,
      stock indexes, trading volume and weather forecasts
   -- Sport Dashboard - Follow team standings, game scores, league stats and
      betting odds
   -- Outside Dashboard - Get up-to-the-minute information on the skiing
      forecast, golfing index, tides, and sailing wind speed

The Ambient Dashboard reduces the daily barrage of emails, sms messages, and ads associated with keeping up to date with information. Virtually all of our information is now online, but the interfaces to that information are either interruptive or too detailed. Cellphones beep with every weather update, and computers require time consuming browsing. The Ambient Dashboard allows any customer to have a constant awareness of their important information, without the anxiety of information overload.

By inserting the SmartSwappable display faces of the meter, customers can change the channel of information they receive via Ambient's nationwide wireless network. Anyone can customize the Dashboard via a simple Web site or a toll-free number.

"People generally either have to seek out information from the Internet, or are barraged by emails, ads and text messages when they want to know something simple," said David Rose, president, Ambient Devices. "The new dashboards are a non-intrusive way to get the information you care about without having to work hard or even pay much attention."

Ambient Dashboards cost $129 with no subscription fee for the information broadcast service. Ambient's network covers over ninety percent of the U.S. population. The Ambient Dashboard will be available at fine home accessories and consumer product retailers by Father's Day, 2004.

About Ambient

Ambient Devices provides the hardware, infrastructure and services that support a new range of glanceable wireless devices. Headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Ambient's vision is to embed information in everyday objects, making the physical environment an interface to digital information. Colors glow to indicate the weather forecast, pinwheels spin to show the movement of the stock market, and a clock can now show you the traffic congestion on your way home. In May 2002, the company launched the best-selling Ambient Orb, named in the NY Times Magazines "Year in Ideas." Ambient developers consumer products and provides a unified platform for embedded wireless to leading companies in consumer electronics, health and wellness, and business accessories. For more information on Ambient, visit www.ambientdevices.com.