Wade Gasior, senior software engineer, left, and George Yu, CEO and founder of Variable Technologies, discuss a piece of programming Wednesday. The Variable Technologies team has recently set up camp at the Business Development Center to develop, market, and produce the Node device. The device incorporates various sensors — including movement, heat, light and radioactivity — into a palm-sized cylinder that connects to a smart phone via Bluetooth.• Name: Variable Technologies
• Location: 100 Cherokee Blvd.
• Contact information: George.Yu@variabletech.com
• Products/services: Node is a sensor that connects with iPhones to detect motion, light, weather, radiation and several other metrics. The core Node, which sells for $149, is a cylindrical accelerometer with space for two connections on either end. Those swapable sensors can shine a light to detect an object’s temperature 15 feet away, sense the barometric pressure in a room, measure radioactivity and perform several other sensory activities.
• Age: Eight months