We cover a lot of crowdfunding campaigns here. A lot of these are pretty cool. However, we just came across one of the cooler campaigns we have seen it a while. This is the TipToe Robot, from XYZbot: The TipToe robot is a great, easy to use, introduction to robotics. According to the team, the [...]
Erik Stokkeland worked as an installation for Siemens and other companies, installing home control systems for nearly a decade. As an installation engineer and technician Stokkeland saw first hand the problems with current home automation and control systems on the market. The biggest drawbacks to current systems is that they're outdated virtually the minute they're [...]
After missing their mark with Qblinks an extremely versatile remote control and notification center for your phone, the Qblinks team is back at it with a vengeance and a truly unique product. The iScent is a castle shaped product that's really a Bluetooth atomizer making it possible to smell your ring or notification tones. It [...]
Apperian, a Boston-based mobile app company, is gaining momentum in the enterprise sector with increased demand from clients such as Cisco and AT&T. This move has supplemented the average deal size of the startup to more than triple during the past year to $235,000. The swift growth is being accommodated by Brain Day’s promotion from [...]
Let's face it, there's nothing worse than your iPhone going dead. iPhones are a lifeline for half a billion people in the world. We use them to communicate with others, check email, keep up with online banking, play games, navigate, kill time and so much more. For more than a small amount of iPhone users, [...]
Years ago when NBA mascots including the coyote from the San Antonio Spurs, were looking for a way to get souvenirs to the upper deck, they turned to a spud cannon. The earliest t-shirt cannons weighed 90 pounds “It was like carrying a TV set on your back. The gun was probably at least four feet [...]
If we are to believe Mark Zuckerberg, Virtual Reality is going to be the next great technology. Zuckerberg and Facebook made a $1 billion bet on this. If indeed VR is the next great frontier, Samsung has jumped out to an early lead. On Wednesday at IFA, Samsung announced Gear VR. The Gear VR is a [...]
Gamers, geeks, cosplayers, nerds, the season of nerds is ending. The late Comicon ended last month and Dragoncon ended last week. What's a nerd to do now until the con season fires back up? Well you could always look around thinkgeek.com or any of those kinds of sites. You could jump on your gamer network [...]
With IFA 2014 approaching at the end of this week, companies are preemptively announcing and launching new products. IFA, if you are not familiar, is essentially a European CES: IFA in Berlin, the global trade show for consumer electronics and home appliances, presents the latest products and innovations in the heart of Europe‘s most important regional [...]
Concussions are one of the most dangerous aspects of organized sports at any level. Concussions can cause life altering brain injuries and can lead to problems like chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), the condition that's believed to have led to NFL veteran Junior Seau's 2012 suicide. The effects of concussions on the brain can last for years [...]
