About
Grand Idea Studio, Inc. is a product research, development, and licensing firm. We specialize in original, in-house invention and design of consumer electronics. The company headquarters is in San Francisco, California.
Biography
Joe Grand is the President of Grand Idea Studio and an electrical engineer and inventor. He holds four granted patents and has designed over a dozen commercially released products. He has also spent almost two decades finding security flaws in hardware devices and educating engineers on how to increase the security of their designs.
Involved in computers and electronics since the age of seven, Joe was a member of the legendary Boston-based hacker collective L0pht Heavy Industries and has testified before the United States Senate Governmental Affairs Committee regarding government and homeland computer security.
Joe is the author of two books, on the technical advisory board of MAKE Magazine, and was a co-host of Prototype This, an engineering entertainment show on Discovery Channel. He holds a B.S.E.E. from Boston University.