Walter de Brouwer - Research Labs

Research Labs

In 1996, he set up Starlab. It specialized in blue skies research, deep future research, and BANG (Bits, Atoms, Neurons and Genes) research. Starlab produced generic patents in intelligent clothing, and worked on time travel. One of its spinoffs (spitters.com) was collecting spit for personal genomics typing. The laboratory closed during the dot-com bubble in 2001.

In 2011 De Brouwer joined the Brain-Computer-Interface company Emotiv, where he became the CEO of Europe. He is a board member of Tau Zero Foundation, formerly known as NASA’s Breakthrough Propulsion Physics Program which recently published the state-of-the-art work The Frontiers of Propulsion. He is also currently the CEO of Scanadu, a company located at the NASA Ames Research Park in California, which plans to develop hand-held health diagnostic devices, similar to the tricorder from Star Trek.