CM Solutions, Inc., a technical start-up company in Dallas, Texas recently obtained an exclusive licensing agreement with Boston College. Under the agreement, CM Solutions has the right to market Camera Mouse (CM) products. In exchange, Boston College earns a portion of CM Solution sales in the form of royalties.

What does this mean for current and future Camera Mouse users? It means that CM technology is entering a new phase of development. Commercialization ensures that the technology will be presented on a much wider platform in the future. Essentially, Camera Mouse is moving out of the research laboratories and into the marketplace where both the number of users and the number of uses can expand.

“One of the major challenges facing CM Solutions is the fragmented nature of the disability market,” says Nick Daley, one of the company’s founders. He expands by saying that the company is currently focusing much of its energies into finding out how to reach the individuals who can most benefit from Camera Mouse equipment. Nick felt confident that the recent “Closing The Gap” assistive technology conference would help the company learn more about the industry.

CM Solutions also believes that it may be able to improve the Camera Mouse technology. Currently, if a user moves too quickly, the camera will sometimes lose registration. By refining the software that controls the camera registration, CM Solutions hopes to eliminate this problem so that users will no longer require constant monitoring while they are on the system.

For Boston College Professor James Gips, co-inventor of the Camera Mouse technology, news of the licensing agreement is welcome. Having necessarily been involved in many of the administrative aspects of bringing the technology to families and institutions, Dr. Gips is now free to return to what he does best: researching new ways to expand technological horizons.

For more information about CM Solutions, Inc., check out their website at www.cameramouse.com. (As of Summer 2007, Camera Mouse technology can be downloaded for free at www.camermouse.org.)