Sensors for weight loss and health tracking are nothing new. Fitbit and Nike+ reign supreme in the category for having a sensor (or band) and a mobile app to let you track your work out, weight loss and lifestyle. GolfSense is a sensor and app combination that helps you learn to swing your golf club [...]
There are many companies trying to find new ways to do karaoke. There are set top boxes connecting you to an unlimited treasure trove of karaoke hits. There are cable operators putting karaoke channels on demand. There are even companies trying to re-invent the Singing Machine, the first home karaoke system. Singing Machine hasn't left [...]
PathoGenetix has developed an automated system for rapid bacteria identification, which is currently used primarily for food safety testing. Owing to the quality of their product, PathoGenetix began collaborating with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in April of 2013, and then with the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Agricultural Research Service in September of 2013. ] On the heels of this collaboration, PathoGenetix announced, on Oct. 30, the closing of a $10M Series C round.
For those not in the know, PED is the abbreviation for "Personal Electronic Devices" at least in airline lingo. PED's have been in the spotlight since Thursday when the FAA finally eased up on regulations and now allow passengers to use Personal Electronic Devices gate to gate. Now as we reported on Thursday the implementation [...]
A new partnership that was announced last week between Echo Nest and Getty Images will give many top music apps a facelift. Currently, many of the world's top music apps, including those from MTV, the BBC and Yahoo, have relied on album images or other images that are provided by artists, and labels. While many [...]
MeCam is a new wearable camera that allows you to record life from your point of view, virtually without thinking about it. The cameras are a little bigger than buttons and take 720p HD quality video and shoot 5.0 megapixel still pictures. MeCam allows you to shoot brilliant beautiful video of things going on around [...]
If you read any of the popular tech sites with any regularity they are all screaming "mobile, mobile, mobile" in fact we are also always reporting that mobile is exploding. Because it is. It's no mistake the opportunity for developers in mobile is there, it's the hottest space in tech right now. Revenue supports the [...]
This one's for the sexy people. A call you hear a lot at a night club but rarely on an app hoping to connect peers to peers in an effort to find a place to stay. But that's exactly what you get when you look at LoveRoom a new app that is connecting attractive people [...]
If you think we're going to tell you about an app to tune your guitar your wrong. The TronicalTune Cybertronic Tuning System is a retrofit robotuning device that tunes your guitar at the push of a button and a strum of the strings. It's so accurate that artists like Billy Corgan of the Smashing Pumpkins, [...]
Back in September Google announced that the next version of Android would be called KitKat following their history of using desert-esque names to go with each iteration of Android. Prior to that announcement, many thought that Google would go with the name Key Lime Pie and that the version number would be 5.0. KitKat is [...]
