Innovators contemplate the next small thing.
The Lab he runs brings no products to market. Rather, he and his fellow brains dream up ideas about products and markets. Tomorrow you won't need your hand or voice to sign in to your workstation. Today, you can find Perceptive's technology for instant video communication via broadband in state motor vehicle bureaus, where it is being used to search databases and nail drivers with multiple identities. Pentland invented it 10 years ago.