Nick Sears is an American Inventor. ^[1]

Sears was a student in the Interactive Telecommunication Program at New York University. His list of creations range from writing a mobile messaging framework to building a DC-DC switching voltage regulator. ^[1] Inspired by Buckminster Fuller's 1962 proposal for the Geoscope, which called for "a 200-foot-diameter sphere covered with 10 million computer-controlled light sources to be suspended over the East River in full view of the United Nations, Sears and his father created their own orb using the persistence of vision and LEDs to create a bright display with a three-dimensional effect using far fewer light sources.