Hardware Startup Targets Under-served Android Users

In the years since they met, Forehand and Holtzman helped to spin out EFI’s eBeam business (interactive whiteboards) into a separate company called Luidia. Both left there in 2013, the year it was sold, and immediately began work on Nextand. Holtzman used TechShop facilities in his hometown to create the prototypes. Now, they’re raising $15,000 through a Kickstarter campaign to bring the project to life. They’ve raised $1,389 with 20 days left to go, and successful or not, they will tweak the design and launch the product in several months. The big question is whether the Android market will...

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