In 1999, I signed as an MP, to spend five days over a couple of months with a Design company or two. I chose Psion which was the iPad of its day. I had a 3c and then a 5. AS a consequence, I spent time with Martin Riddiford and Jim Fullalove.
Fast forward to today and I caught up with them. They are now in another company called Therefore -
www.therefore.co.uk and they are doing very well indeed.
They have been crowd sourcing for funding and even Bill Gates emailed last week to say how impressed he was with
http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/282006?c=home which is an extraordinary invention to provide free lighting by way of a tiny generator and a pulley.
It featured on ITN News this evening.