Meet The Vanhawks Valour, A Connected Bike With GPS Navigation To Help You Get Around
Vanhawks seeks to make bicycles smarter, and is starting with a bike called the Valour that is Bluetooth-enabled to connect with smartphones and other devices. That connectivity also provides the ability to get guided directions while biking and to get notifications when vehicles are in the bike's blind spot. Read More-
SpaceX Wins An Injunction Against United Launch Alliance’s Purchase Of Russian Rockets
After announcing last week that it would be filing suit against the U.S. Air Force over the government agency’s decision to award a contract for national defense-related rocket launches exclusively to the United Launch Alliance (ULA), a joint-venture between aeronautics industry leaders Boeing and Lockheed-Martin, without entertaining competitive bids. Last night, SpaceX won a small but… Read More -
The Golden Goose, A Nifty Gadget That Scrambles Eggs In Their Shells, Kills It On Kickstarter
A Kickstarter-backed gadget called the Golden Goose is a new kitchen utility that lets you scramble eggs in the shell. Why? Because you can. I have to admit, I sort of love it when people find a way to take something that was totally not broken, and very simple to do – like scrambling eggs, for example – and reinvent it entirely. Seriously, even I can scramble eggs and I’ve… Read More -
Amazon’s Smartphone Design Reportedly Leaks, Looks Like A Galaxy S Crossed With An iPhone
Amazon’s smartphone is looking more and more like an imminent reality, and now BGR is bringing what it says is the first look at the actual design of the hardware to the table. The phone appeared in an actual photo in a previous BGR article, but now a render shows what it looks like under its protective housing, and the results are – really not at all that surprising. The picture… Read More -
Apple Patents MacBook Keys With Built-In Displays, Touch Sensors And Haptic Feedback
Apple may be planning a big upgrade for the standard computer keyboard, according to a new patent filing published by the USPTO and spotted by AppleInsider today. The filing describes a notebook keyboard that has keys which integrate miniature displays, touch sensors and haptic feedback motors all into a single small package, making it possible to give future MacBooks highly customizable keyboards… Read More -
Halo, The Brain-Improving Wearable, Raises $1.5 Million
While the thought of applying electricity directly to the brain in unsupervised conditions is, to some, a bit scary, Halo Neuroscience has gotten over a million smackers to allow you to do just that. Halo, a company that will produce a wearable device to "boost brain function" has closed a $1.5 million round led by Marc Andreessen of Andreessen Horowitz and Jeff Clavier of SoftTech VC. Read More -
LeapFrog Hops Into The Kids’ Wearables Space With A Gamified Fitness Tracker
LeapFrog, a purveyor of tablets and other education tech designed specifically for kids, has leapt into the wearables space -- with a gamified fitness-focused wearable, also for kids, which lets parents set their offspring fitness challenges to keep them active. Read More -
This DIY Geocaching Bracelet Shows The Power Of Wearables
Geocaching is a fun activity that involves finding little things hidden in the real world. The kids and I try to do it when we travel and we usually end up circling a bush for a few minutes before we all go and get ice cream. However, if you're Greg Mayer you get down and dirty and create a crazy watch that can point you to distant GPS coordinates like some sort of computerized Mercury leading you… Read More -
Aiming To Build Beautiful, Internet-Connected Displays, Electric Objects Raises $1.7M
Jake Levine, most recently the general manager of Digg, is hoping to build devices that change the way we interact with the Internet, and he's raised $1.7 million in seed funding to make that happen. Levine is founder and CEO of a new startup called Electric Objects. He outlined the general idea in a blog post earlier this month, writing that his goal is to "put the Internet on your wall": Read More
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Ubi, The Ubiquitous Computer, Can Now Control Your Lights
When we first met Ubi, a voice-activated Android computer that hangs out on your wall, she was fairly powerless. While she kind-of-sort-of worked well, I found her to be very limited. That changes today, in theory. Read More -
Tinitell Is A Wearable Phone And GPS Tracker For Kids
Wearables continue to be an area of focus for device makers, large and small. Here's another would-be entrant to the space: Tinitell is a wearable phone and GPS tracker for kids, with electronics small enough for the whole device to be strapped to a toddler's wrist. Read More -
Understory Raises $1.9M To Deploy Its Network Of Hyper-Local, Ground-Level Weather Stations
Weather data currently comes from high-altitude locations, and rarely reflects conditions on the ground with a high degree of accuracy. Boston-based startup Understory wants to change that, and a new seed round of $1.9 million led by True Ventures, and including RRE Ventures, Vegas Tech Fund, SK Ventures and Andrew C. Payne will help the company deploy a network of ground-level weather stations… Read More -
LG’s Next Flagship Smartphone Will Launch On May 27
Smartphone maker LG is preparing to take the wraps off a new flagship handset at six launch events in cities around the world planned for May 27 and 28 . It’s not specifying the name of the forthcoming flagship — saying only that it will be unveiling its “next big global device after G2″ — but it’s not a huge stretch to expect this phone to be called the… Read More -
Lix, A More Precise 3D-Printing Pen, Passes Its Kickstarter Goal In 2-Hours
Remember the 3Doodler? A U.K. startup is taking aim at building a more precise 3D-printing pen for the professional user -- designers, architects and so on. Their Lix pen prototype passed its Kickstarter goal of £30,000 two hours after the crowdfunding campaign launched yesterday, and has now pushed past £100k raised. Read More -
Watch The Nymi Heartbeat Identification Wristband Personalize Its Wearer’s PC
Toronto-based hardware startup Bionym gave a special public demo of its Nymi ECG authentication and identification wristband at the monthly We Are Wearables event yesterday, and talked a bit about their product in more detail, now that it’s well on its way to production. The Nymi measures a user’s heart beat, and uses that to verify their identity and then perform various handshake… Read More -
Sony Xperia Z2 Review: A Waterproof Android Smartphone That Goes Beyond Gimmicks
Sony hasn’t had a great time of it in the U.S. smartphone market over the past few years, and it recently announced that its new flagship, the Xperia Z2, would only be made available to U.S. customers unlocked via its website. But the Z2 is still a solid device, and a contender on more or less even footing with flagships from other Android OEMs, so fans of Google’s mobile operating… Read More -
Android Silver Program Reportedly Designed To Give Google More Control Over Its Mobile Destiny
Google does indeed have a so-called “Silver” program in the works, as reported originally in early April by Android Police, says The Information. But the intent isn’t just to improve customer support around Android devices, as it seemed at first. Instead, The Information reports that it’s about Google gaining more control over the Android ecosystem and building a… Read More -
Amazon Debuts A Storefront Just For Wearable Tech
Online shopping giant Amazon wants to get out ahead of the curve with wearable tech – hence the launch of its new Wearable Technology store today. The store is a subsection of its Amazon.com ecommerce portal, with a focus on devices like the Misfit Shine, Jawbone UP24 and Narrative Clip, to name just a few. Read More -
Nod Gesture Control Ring Is Designed For Continual Wear, Starts Selling Today For $149
Gesture control devices are a big new area of interest among hardware startups, and a Bluetooth-enabled ring that makes it possible to control connected devices with a wave of your hand is nothing new. But the Nod is different from many of the other solutions out there we’ve seen, in that it’s already in the advanced prototype phase, has serious high-profile VC backing, and in that… Read More
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