An Experienced and Innovative
Technology Company.
DarkStar is a consumer-based technology company made up of visionaries and industry experts. This new technology company will inspire and challenge consumers interactions and experiences in the night time sport industries.
The DarkStar Leadership Team is made up of influential and passionate leaders in the technology industry. The breadth of experience spans ideation, R&D, product design, NPI, manufacturing, distribution, and sales.
We have filed several patent applications focused on advanced technologies in IoT, camera design, cloud-based applications, including those in the security industry and end-to-end integration.
Our team has created industries, invented ecosystems that are used in the largest companies globally, and driven billions of dollars of sales. Our collective expertise and team of senior leaders will reinvent the night vision optics industry.
Use Cases.
Running
Fishing
Night Golf
Visual Enhancement
(CVI, & Cataracts)
Biking
Hiking
Hunting
Motorcycle
Snowboarding/Skiing
Mountain Climbing
Automotive Color
Night Vision
Autonomous Driving
All Products are designed
and made in the USA.
Night Vision Glasses.
- See in total darkness
- Use as sunglasses in the day
(active tint) - Stereo speakers (bluetooth compatible)
- Alternative to earbuds
- Built-in dual microphones
- Advanced Solid State Battery
- Bluetooth connectivity to smartphone
- Integrates with Google Assistant / Siri
- DarkStar API
- UV Protection
- Android / Apple app
- Personal safety device
Night Vision Goggles.
- See in total darkness
- Hands-free phone calls
- Manual video recording / photo capture
- Stereo speakers (bluetooth compatible)
- Advanced Solid State Battery
- Bluetooth connectivity to smartphone
- Integrates with Google Assistant / Siri
- DarkStar API
- UV Protection
- Android / Apple app
Night Vision Motorcycle Helmet.
- See in total darkness
- Rear-facing camera
- Hands-free phone calls
- Manual video recording / photo capture
- Stereo speakers (bluetooth compatible)
- Advanced Solid State Battery
- Bluetooth connectivity to smartphone
- Integrates with Google Assistant / Siri
- DarkStar API
- UV Protection
- Android / Apple app
Night Vision Removable Rearview Mirror.
- See in total darkness
- Displays vehicle telemetry, maps, music, messages, phone calls, smart assistants
- Rear-facing camera
- Video playback / photo display (when parked)
- Stereo speakers (bluetooth compatible)
- Removable for hiking/adventuring
- Advanced Solid State Battery
- Bluetooth connectivity to smartphone
- Integrates with Google Assistant / Siri
- Nocturnalux API
- UV Protection
- Android / Apple app
DarkStar
Night Vision Assisted
Autonomous Driving.
- Proprietary algorithms allow cameras to see in total darkness
- Improves autonomous driving capabilities in
dark or night time scenarios - Improves vehicles ability to act or react to environmental stimuli whether in autonomous mode or not
- DarkStar API is agnostic for OEM integrations
DarkStar
Visual
Enhancement.
- Full range of sight, projected within inches
of the eye for vision assistance (CVI,
Cataracts) - 5x digital zoom
- Increases ability for visual detail
- Works day or night
- Dual 1080p displays
- Bluetooth connectivity to smartphone
- Integrates with Smart Assistants
- Advanced Solid State Battery
- DarkStar API
- UV Protection
- Android / Apple app
We Find Light In Darkness.
DarkStar® is our proprietary Passive Color Night Vision technology. It uses the visible and non-visible light residue after dark to view the image in full color without any active illumination. Our intelligent visual data processing algorithms dynamically adjust the incoming information to create an image as if it was daytime.
- Passive Full Color Night Vision is fueled by environmental Photons invisible to the human eye.
- Photons are massless particles of light present in just about everything in our environment, from plants to planets.
DarkStar Comparison Videos.
Controlled Lighting Example (Darkroom)
DarkStar Features.
Driver Monitoring & Distracted Driving
Driver Head Position & Eyelid OpenClosed
DarkStar 2.0
Heads Up Display (HUD)
- Displays vehicle telemetry, maps, music titles, messages, caller ID, smart assistants prompts
- AR overlay plugin for online/social exercising 2.0
- Video playback / photo display (when parked)
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
- Person detection day & night (on-screen or vibration)
- Vehicle, bike, animal detection day & night (on-screen or vibration)
- Automatically highlights people, vehicles, bikes, animals
- AI event driven video recording / photo capture
- Live text and street sign translation
Integration
- Integration with device OS APIs to work with key hands free apps such as Maps, Music, Messages, Phone, Smart Assistants, etc.
Battery
- Advanced solid state battery: increased to 10x capacity, molded into glasses frame
Creators, Innovators, and Entrepreneurs.
Joe Scalisi | Chief Executive Officer & Chairman of the Board
Joe Scalisi is the visionary and inventor behind SkyBell, the first video doorbell and its entire suite of products, which won a CES Innovations Design and Engineering Award in 2014. As a serial entrepreneur and inventor, Joe has amassed over 162 patents in design and advanced technologies. He is currently ranked 241 of 1.5M IoT patent holders globally. Previously, Joe developed the world’s smallest cellular GPS tracker in partnership with Apple Inc. His subsequent companies, Location Based Technologies and PocketFinder were at the time considered the most advanced portable GPS location devices in the world.
Joe’s systematic method of developing and protecting products has translated into millions of devices; both GPS and video doorbells being sold into international markets. Currently, Joe’s IP portfolio has been valued in excess of $1B and his innovations have disrupted many markets dominated by industry giants, giving him a unique advantage in the markets he enters or creates. His patented technology has been or is being used by Apple Inc., Samsung Group, Uber Technologies, Inc., Lyft Inc., AT&T Inc., US Air Force, Honeywell International Inc., Alarm.com Inc., Google Nest, Amazon Inc., and many others.
Hans Uhlig | President
With more than 35 years of high-end Oscar-winning visual effects, and international hardware and software development experience, Hans knows what it takes to create and deliver successful forward-thinking results under the most demanding circumstances. He has led and coordinated third-party vendors and client in-house engineering development teams to seamlessly deliver effective technology solutions. Known for thinking “Five Years Out”.
Hans has developed a rather unique IP portfolio with a focus on visual imaging. He continually focuses on profit maximization through multifaceted business approaches and pushing the envelope with groundbreaking inventions. For Mercedes Benz he invented and developed the Valveless Internal Combustion Engine, and assembled the MB Group C engine for Sauber Racing. He has 6 Academy Award nominations for Best Visual Effects and has worked on over 17 major Hollywood films. His developments in the entertainment industry include inventing the first virtual camera for motion capture and producing the first all CGI Human Motion Capture film. He has managed on-location production sets and on high end advertising campaigns for Pepsi, Pilsbury, and Dodge.
Through founding his own innovation labs, FYOTech and 7Zense, he developed the Ion360 VR camera, 360 Smart Home display device, 360 Holo-Deck Projection System, ultrasonic beam emitting defense device, and Passive Color Night Vision technology. His visionary work has impacted businesses from Polygon Entertainment, Electronic Arts, Industrial Light + Magic, and Lucas Films. If he does not have his feet on the ground you may find him flying his twin-engine plane for pleasure or business.
Dr. Marco Mayor | EVP Engineering & Manufacturing
Dr. Marco A. Mayor is a senior executive with extensive experience in managing global engineering organizations, delivering technological innovation (IP), product development in multiple industries including; healthcare, industrial, computers, military, and consumer products.
Marco has over 25 years of experience at Fortune 500 companies including IBM, Motorola, and Jabil. Dr. Mayor has a proven track record of executing and delivering high-tech products from concept through realization, and aggressively driving profitable growth. His key responsibilities have included leading world-class, cross-functional teams such as engineering, program management, product management, marketing, NPI, finance, business development, corporate legal support, and intellectual property management. Dr. Mayor managed international teams of over 1,400 engineering professionals in 12 sites and a budget in excess of $100M, providing all levels of engineering services to over 200 global customers. He managed $1.3B global product P&L delivering over $250M annual net profits. He holds a Doctoral Degree in Electrical Engineering from George Washington University, with Executive Continuing Education in Leadership and Finance. He has more than 10 published technical reports, and currently holds one patent and several submitted patents.
Dr. Mayor’s current role is that of COO & Founder for 7Zenze, Inc., an innovation lab and technology company, creating state-of-the-art Color Night Vision and AI Technologies for consumer, commercial, and industrial products. 7Zenze’s proprietary Passive Color Night Vision technology has a wide range of applications including security cameras, rifle scopes, red-dot sights, drones, robotics, marine systems, vehicles, and more.
Steve Mays | Chief Technology Officer
Steve Mays has extensive expertise in designing large-scale cloud infrastructure for government and financial application / security, image processing, industrial and consumer product development. He has worked with large enterprises such as: GE, Shell, Kaiser Permanente, Audi North America and has experience in consumer products with: Leapfrog, Brainquake and Behr Paints. He has held positions as software / systems / information security engineer, up to CEO and founder of businesses. Steve brings a business focused, secure, cloud scale computing perspective to our team.
Steve was instrumental in building the first several generations of X (formerly Twitter)’s massive scale infrastructure, which experienced 1000%+ growth in one week. He architected McKesson’s North American pharmacy logistics, second generation platform and was the founding CIO of the country of Kyrgyzstan, building out their policy, team and data centers to support the entire country. Steve also worked to build a framework for Audi North America to sell services and technologies as major revenue drivers for its passenger cars and dealer networks throughout the “Open Platform” initiative.
In security, Steve has consulted to governments, such as spearheading the technical implementation of the Foreign Domestic Worker program for the government of Singapore, provided OpenStack / cloud consulting to the DoD and NSA to secure military communications, provided in-civilian telecom encryption solutions for the government of Kyrgyzstan and has deep experience in securing data and systems through projects such as the Command Assurance project build in conjunction with Guardtime’s blockchain technology. In medical, Steve deployed blade computing systems to many large regional hospitals, provided architectural consulting to support integrated Patient Information Management Systems for entities such as Kaiser and Sutter Health for their Epic Hyperspace rollouts. In image processing, Steve worked with several clients such as the National Reconnaissance Office, Industrial Light & Magic, and Digital Domain to build rendering and image processing techniques.
Murray Wikol | Board Member & Director of Advisory Board
Murray Wikol is a dynamic and versatile Founder, C-Level Executive, and Board Member for commercial, nonprofit and public sector enterprises with proven success in management and entrepreneurship. His primary responsibilities include strategic planning, governance, financial performance, and risk management. He is currently the CEO of ProVisions LLC, a Commercial Real Estate Development firm, that has consistently grown its operations, asset base, and income since 2003. He is responsible for the development, ownership, finance and management of business and real estate valued in excess of $2.4B.
During his time with SAP Ariba, Murray began as Senior Executive for Sales and Marketing of Enterprises Software Sales for Electronic Procurement and Digital Marketplaces for B2B. In 1999, he accepted responsibility for creating and managing projects, budgets, and companies that transformed start-up business E2Open into the leading secure collaborative commerce B2B marketplace environment in the electronics industry. As COO he grew E20pen, into a multi-billion dollar marketplace. Subsequently, formed and became COO of Rubber Network, another secure collaborative B2B Marketplace environment for the Tire and Rubber Industry world-wide. Murray founded GM Fanuc Robotics (a joint venture of General Motors Corporation and FANUC) and as Vice President of International Operations, took the company from zero to $322M in sales within 3 years. Today company revenues are over $1B per year and it remains the undisputed leader in the world for robotics and automated manufacturing systems.
Murray sits on the advisory board as Chairman for ION ConNexus, and serves as Chairman of the Advisory Board for TireStamp Inc., is a Board Member of the DocuSign Advisory Board, Michigan Finance Authority, and Leadership Advisory Board of the University of Michigan College of Engineering, and Capital Campaign Committee.
Adrian Lanch | VP of Technology
Adrian Lanch founded and operated TechStream Inc. providing project based engineering consultancy to various Wall Street firms, including Credit Suisse and Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette, as well as the fintech divisions of the Reuters news agency and MoneyLine Telerate corporation.
Adrian has a diverse experience in the design and implementation of high revenue generating financial products. For the Reuters Information Products division, Adrian created the Reuters Portfolio Pricing service, generating $20M in new revenue in its first year. The system provided portfolio pricing services to 230 major corporations by utilizing EOD validated prices for all financial instruments across all capital markets. For MoneyLine Telerate, Adrian implemented a fault tolerant market data distribution system based on TIB / Rendezvous infrastructure for the distribution of market data to 2,000 clients. Adrian also managed and coordinated the DevOps department, consisting of UNIX, PC, Networking, Market Data Engineering, and Client Services groups, directly supervising 25 people. By implementing various efficiency initiatives, Adrian cut the operational costs of the department by 35% while maintaining a consistently high level of productivity.
Previously, Adrian worked in system design and technical sales support for the Reuters New York front line business unit servicing JPMorgan Chase, UBS, Société Générale and various other investment banks. Adrian provided the engineering expertise for the implementation of the Reuters market data systems at Deutsche Bank's fixed income trading floor, and desktop products for Deutsche Bank's equities trading floor in New York City.
Adrian is a driven, ambitious and analytical IT engineer with two decades of diverse experience in the design and implementation of high revenue generating products, including systems design, technical sales, operations management, project management, testing and quality assurance management and engineering expertise in transactional and financial market data systems.
Our IP.
An Active and Evolving Portfolio
8+ U.S. and foreign patents pending
Some of our most notable patent coverage:
- Night vision glasses
- Night vision goggles
- Night vision motorcycle helmets
- Night vision rearview mirrors
- Exclusive license to DarkStar (Passive Color Night Vision)
