From Software To Glasses, Stephen Kurtin Is An Amazingly Cool Inventor!
In the current economic climate, it is hard to imagine that the profession of “inventor” still actually exists. There are so few companies that invest in pure discovery and so few tinkerers who can afford to devote their time to projects that may take decades to pan out. But inventors still exist independent of any corporate structure and one of the coolest contemporary inventors is Stephen Kurtin.
Stephen Kurtin is a bona fide inventor who has spent almost forty years puttering around. In the process, he has made some significant inventions and improvements on other people’s work. Kurtin graduated from MIT in 1966 with concurrent S.M. and S.B. degrees in Physics. After receiving a Howard Hughes Doctoral Fellowship to Caltech, Stephen Kurtin studied Applied Physics in California, amid the boom in transistor and microchip discovery. After earning his doctorate in Applied Physics, a world of opportunities opened up to Kurtin.
With offers coming in from emerging companies like Intel, Stephen Kurtin had a profound choice to make about how he wanted to apply his genius. As it happened, he decided to strike out on his own. He founded a company called Lexitron in 1970, shortly after getting his Ph.D. At Lexitron, Kurtin pioneered a radical notion in word processing. That idea was “What You See Is What You Get.” Before Kurtin revolutionized word processing software through this radical notion – which remains a key selling point for word processing and webpage design programs to this day! – word processors and basic computer programs had radical differences between the hard copy and on-screen versions of documents. Usually, you had to work to reformat sections manually in order to get basic settings like alignments and spacing to match your intent or what was on the screen! Kurtin changed that with ”What You See Is What You Get” programming.
After designing an early surround sound speaker system for Advent, Stephen Kurtin began his pursuit of the ultimate eyeglasses. While recent advances in optics encourage ophthalmologists to prescribe an additional set of eye glasses for patients specifically for computer use, Stephen Kurtin has worked since 1992 to find a more holistic solution to eye care. Kurtin has worked to create the world’s first pair of eyeglasses with a manually-adjustable focus. Seen as an effective treatment for those suffering from nearsightedness, farsightedness and presbyopia, Kurtin’s revolutionary Superfocus glasses executed an idea first theorized in 1866! Kurtin’s Superfocus glasses represent twenty years of research and experimentation and are already changing the lives of the Alpha Consumers who can afford the $900/pair glasses!
Stephen Kurtin has devoted his life, not to the pursuit of profit, but to the pursuit of discovery and to solving a problem in a seriously neglected area of health care. The fact that he has succeeded and made a profit makes him exceptionally cool.
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