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“Who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed?”
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Hunter S. Thompson
Hunter S. Thompson
Founder’s Note
I’ve always been drawn to the interstitial spaces and liminal zones, where ideas have to survive, adapt, and expand through contact with capital R reality.
At 19, as a math major at MIT, I sketched an idea in a darkroom closet that I was told wouldn’t work. Teaching myself materials science, optics, wet chemistry and display physics, I willed it into being in a borrowed fume hood. It became E Ink, now in over a billion devices.
That path carried me through Class 100 cleanrooms in San Jose, dirt-floor factories in rural China, biology and model organism labs in Japan, and the chaos of Jakarta and Manila’s markets.
Along the way came phones promoted by Ozzy Osbourne, parts for nuclear power plants, color-changing BMWs endorsed by Arnold Schwarzenegger, and digital access for millions across Asia. Cape Fear Labs carries that same drive forward: translating contrarian ideas into systems that endure.
Surfing, yoga, and misfit hours keep the circuits charged.
Barrett Comiskey, Founder
Work at the Edge
Every project at Cape Fear Labs begins where the world gets noisy, dirty, nonlinear, or all three.The lab’s work spans retrofit military safety systems, low-cost electric bus repower, biobanks for early cancer detection, and imaginative uses of E Ink — from dynamic vehicle tags to stadium signage.
We design and build for the real world — the one with dust, heat, resonance, and uncertainty.
The same discipline that carried E Ink from a borrowed darkroom to a billion devices now drives our search for technologies and engineered solutions that endure.
Cape Fear also backs model organism biology through the Mosaic Foundation, building reproducibility standards and new discovery tools for the next century of life-science research.
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“The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.”
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Joseph Conrad
Featured in...
As an undergrad, Barrett is first author on a Nature cover piece now cited 1700 times
Jan. 2000, a young Barrett is featured in the Wall Street Journal
Oct. 2008, Barrett is profiled by Esquire in "75 Most Influential People of the 21st Century"
2016, Barrett becomes the youngest inductee into the National Inventors Hall of Fame
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“All men dream: but not equally. The dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dreams with open eyes.”
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T. E. Lawrence
Founder’s Note
I’ve always been drawn to the interstitial spaces and liminal zones, where ideas have to survive, adapt, and expand through contact with capital R reality.
At 19, as a math major at MIT, I sketched an idea in a darkroom closet that I was told wouldn’t work. Teaching myself materials science, optics, wet chemistry and display physics, I willed it into being in a borrowed fume hood. It became E Ink, now in over a billion devices.
That path carried me through Class 100 cleanrooms in San Jose, dirt-floor factories in rural China, biology and model organism labs in Japan, and the chaos of Jakarta and Manila’s markets.
Along the way came phones promoted by Ozzy Osbourne, parts for nuclear power plants, color-changing BMWs endorsed by Arnold Schwarzenegger, and digital access for millions across Asia. Cape Fear Labs carries that same drive forward: translating contrarian ideas into systems that endure.
Surfing, yoga, and misfit hours keep the circuits charged.
Barrett Comiskey, Founder
Work at the Edge
Every project at Cape Fear Labs begins where the world gets noisy, dirty, nonlinear, or all three.The lab’s work spans retrofit military safety systems, low-cost electric bus repower, biobanks for early cancer detection, and imaginative uses of E Ink — from dynamic vehicle tags to stadium signage.
We design and build for the real world — the one with dust, heat, resonance, and uncertainty.
The same discipline that carried E Ink from a borrowed darkroom to a billion devices now drives our search for technologies and engineered solutions that endure.
Cape Fear also backs model organism biology through the Mosaic Foundation, building reproducibility standards and new discovery tools for the next century of life-science research.
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“The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.”
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Joseph Conrad
Featured in...
As an undergrad, Barrett is first author on a Nature cover piece now cited 1700 times
Jan. 2000, a young Barrett is featured in the Wall Street Journal
Oct. 2008, Barrett is profiled by Esquire in "75 Most Influential People of the 21st Century"
2016, Barrett becomes the youngest inductee into the National Inventors Hall of Fame
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“All men dream: but not equally. The dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dreams with open eyes.”
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T. E. Lawrence
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