At One Spark earlier this year, we had a chance to check out a bunch of interesting projects. Much like crowdfunding projects as a whole, most were pretty cool, but unpractical. However, there were a few projects that really stood out. One of these was Bcon. Here is what we wrote about the Bcon back [...]
When you're trying to help your child master shapes, colors, words, the alphabet, math facts, site words and other basics that are fundamental to today's common core education, we often think to look to apps. But even apps have drawbacks. There are some amazing apps out there for all those basic skill sets but with [...]
With all the talk about smart watches and Apple watches we started talking to people at tech events, and even the Apple event and many were in agreement, not everyone wants a smart watch. When it's time to unplug, button up and hit a formal event, a Pebble or even Apple Watch looks out of [...]
If you have every worked with a large, or remote team, you know what a hassle it can be. Things as simple as communication can become massive pain points. We just came across a Chicago startup that looks to ease this pain. Helpmonks has built an awesome new team-based email and workflow management platform. We [...]
When HTC unveiled the HTC Flyer tablet to coincide with CTIA conference in 2011 many Android analysts thought it was a game changer. With new pen technology, later perfected by Samsung, it seemed that the answer to the iPad was being built by HTC. That was hardly the case. Now, in HTC's truly rebuilding year, [...]
There is a massive movement towards context. Robert Scoble - Rackspace's Startup Liaison Officer - just wrote a book about the concept. In The Age of Context, Scoble and co-author Shel Israel outline this new age, "In this new era, our devices know when to wake us up early because it snowed last night; they contact [...]
Check out this beautiful digital camera. It's the Leica M Edition 60 which is commemorating the 60th anniversary of the Leica M-Series range finders. It's like the Porsche or Rolls Royce of cameras. Leica has been known for their superior German built quality. Wired reports that the Leica M Edition 60 boasts a 24 mega-pixel [...]
As we are all slowly moving everything to 100% digital, storage space is becoming a major concern. Sure, you have Dropbox, Google Drive, Box, and a litany of smaller cloud storage providers, but the free version of these allow you only an adequate, at best, amount of storage. While, generally speaking, these are all safe [...]
As many people know V-Moda is a premium headphone manufacturer that makes many different types of headphones with nothing but overall quality and style in mind. This year V-Moda has released the V-Moda xs on ear headphones that are a solid product and a good buy. These headphones give a perception of quality from the [...]
We've seen time and time again how crowdfunding is fueling new technology products in the form of apps, wearables, smart devices, and electric vehicles. Recently we've seen how crowdfunding is effecting the music technology world as well. Gianfranco Ceccolini, and his company Musical Operating Devices are doing for music pedals what the smartphone did for [...]
