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The Twenty20 Story: “Sharing Video in Motion.”

Marc Barros and Jason Green were avid skiers with a problem. They wanted to share the thrills and spills of their downhill skiing adventures with their friends and family, but they couldn't. The frozen mountaintop was a grueling and unforgiving environment for video camcorders. Besides, when you're zooming downhill, crashing through moguls with ski poles in your hands, it's just not possible to hold a camera.

The duo asked around. Other skiers had the same wish: to capture video of their daring exploits on the slopes, without destroying their precious video cameras in the process or hitting a tree while looking through a viewfinder. Some skiers tried to solve these problems by mounting cameras and wires and batteries to their heads - the infamous “helmet cam.” But the results were always unbalanced, unsatisfactory, and very expensive.

In other sports, Barros and Green found the same dilemma. Enthusiasts of motocross, biking, parasailing, skateboarding, snowboarding, climbing, and bungee jumping, all wanted to capture video from “inside the action.” But extreme environmental conditions killed the cameras, and the fast-paced action threatened to kill athletes who fiddled with their camera controls during the action. Everyone wanted to shoot action video, but few could do it.

Barros and Green, third place finishers of the University of Washington's Business Plan Competition, went into problem solving mode. They set their sights on inventing a hands-free video solution for action sports enthusiasts. And they would go one step further - they would find an easier and faster way to share the video online. Everyone they spoke with wanted to share their athletic exploits online with friends, but ran into long hours using complicated video editing software. It was a real “downer.” Barros and Green understood: They would rather be on the slopes than in front of a computer, too.

So they founded Twenty20, and invented a new and easy way to “Shoot and Share” action video. Their solution satisfied the action sports world's hungering for a wearable, hands-free, rugged video camera. But, the company's greatest innovation “Hands Free Shoot, One Click Share!” promises a revolution in sharing action video online for everyone, even the Dad who wants to record the faces of his family from the front seat of the corkscrew roller coaster.

Video in Motion

Shoot it. Share it.