Graham Brown-Martin
His first envolvement with handheld computers was in 1987. It was during this time that the firm won one of the first SMART awards (1988) to develop a handheld computer for children. Several patents were awarded to the company which was eventually acquired by Philips Electronics. Graham Brown-Martin then went on to form Electronic Sound & Pictures (ESP), building bridges between educational and entertainment software. An acquisition by Virgin Interactive Entertainment oriented the company towards the entertainment industry.
Utilizing technologies developed at Next, ESP was renamed EXP and re-launched as the world’s first interactive music label working with artists as diverse as Peter Gabriel, Nine Inch Nails, The Orb, The Grid, The Shamen and Depeche Mode. After Virgin Interactive was sold to Viacom Graham Brown-Martin left to form an art/technology unit with Buggy G Riphead, visual collaborator with the Future Sound of London. During this period Buggy and Graham Brown-Martin directed several music videos and short films, and designed the ship’s computer for the New Line Cinema feature film Lost In Space.
During his entire career Graham Brown-Martin has embraced and developed software for handheld computers, and upon his return from overseas he decided that the moment was right to pursue his original vision of mobile learning.
