Ralph Osterhout is an American inventor, designer, entrepreneur, and CEO of Osterhout Design Group (ODG).[1] During his career he has developed a range of products spanning toys,[2][3][4] consumer electronics,[5] dive equipment,[6] furniture[7] to devices for the Department of Defense.[8] Osterhout is named as inventor on 260 patents and patent applications. Over the course of his career, Osterhout has developed over 2,000 different products[9][10] and hundreds of separate product lines[11] for companies ranging from start-ups to Fortune 500s, as well as the government.
Since 2009, Osterhout has been highly focused on developing products and technologies in the head-worn computing field. Osterhout has over three decades of developing head-worn technology (starting with the PVS-7 Night Vision Goggles[12] in 1984) and has created nine different generations of smartglasses.[13]
Osterhout has been referred to as the "real-life Q",[14] in reference to the fictional character Q that equips James Bond with secret spy gadgets, after Osterhout designed and developed several gadgets for James Bond films.[15]
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^Larrabee, Eric. “Knoll Design”, Abrams, Harry N Publisher, 1990 - ISBN0-8109-1220-1