Liviu Babitz
Liviu Babitz
Liviu Babitz is an entrepreneur and cyborg.[-1]He is is the co-founder and CEO of Cyborg Nest, a tech company that aims to expands people's perceptions of reality; the company's digital product - the North Sense - is a Bluetooth-enabled dermal implant that vibrates each time one faces in a magnetic northward direction.[4]
Early Life & Education
Liviu Babitz's TED Talk: "They thought I hacked my body.
Liviu Babitz was born in Romania in the 1980's.
He grew up there and lived there when the Berlin Wall fell in 1989.[-1]He then moved to Israel in the 1990's and was exposed to the new implementations of technology.[-1]
Babitz eventually served in Israel's army.[-1]
Career
Babitz eventually started his career wanting to make a positive impact on the world.
In 2010, he became the COO of Videre est Credere, a global network that equips oppressed communities in hard-to-access areas with cameras, technology and training to safely.
Their goal was to expose violence, human rights violations, and other systemic abuses.
Babitz worked undercover to build secret networks of people who use technology and document these rights violations.[5]
In May 2016, Babitz founded Cyborg Nest.
He currently serves as the company's CEO.[3]