The Porcupine Hat

It's the internal working name for this:

Our thinking on LiveShot has been pretty consistent--with the advent of 4G, a pair of modems should be more than enough to get to the "sweet spot" of 1-2Mb/s for live video. But we've been up against two things:

1) Areas of the world where 4G is not yet deployed

2) Folks who simply believe more is better and will not try LiveShot without more modem support

The hat (officially called the "LiveShot Hub") clips to the top of the present LiveShot and provides a distributed row of USB ports at varying heights.

It's been a concern of ours since LiveShot early development that multiple modems have enough "spacial diversity" to prevent degradation of one modem's receiver while the other is transmitting. As you can see, the design of the hat allows for up to six modems to co-exist in a small space, while providing a maximal difference in space and orientation to allow lots of options for each modem's polarization. We'll be demonstrating it at NAB next month and shipping it this summer.