MP3 co-creator seeks smarter MP3 players

Karlheinz Brandenburg, co-creator of the MP3, is now looking to help make “dumb” players use cloud-based technology to enhance the features offered to consumers.

Brandenburg is now a professor at Ilmenau University of Technology, and hopes Perfect Stream — which can help products “think” — will be picked up by OEMs. The company has received good publicity in Germany and attended CES in Las Vegas to woo ISPs in the United States.