Spotify, the marquee music streaming service, announced earlier this week that they've reached 10 million paying customers and 30 million free users per month. While that pales in comparison to the numbers of say Facebook's monthly active users, it's a huge signaling issue for the music industry and like minded streaming services The free service [...]
There was a solid few months during my childhood when all I could think about was getting my hands on a lightsaber. They were just so awesome. While my dreams of a lightsaber will probably never come true, we just came across a Kickstarter Campaign that offers a nice alternative: Sabertron. Essentially, Sabertron is laser [...]
New reading plaform from MindPlay comes with a 90% success rate money back guarantee. For decades, parents and even teachers turned to the Hooked On Phonics reading system to help kids learn to read and improve their reading skills. Hooked on Phonics was big, really big, in fact the box came with more cassette tapes [...]
This is the Cliq case, "a touch sensitive smartphone case that puts the things you need most at the tip of your fingers."Cliq, "Cliq Press Release" The case comes equipped with three buttons, that can perform a total of six different actions/shortcuts. The case is completely wireless and requires no charge. The actions/shortcuts are programmed [...]
I've been using a Pebble smart watch since it was first released on Kickstarter. While I love my Pebble smartwatch I'm also a big news junkie and love to know what's going on around me. I like to know when the big things happen whether it be technology, sports or even politics. The myriad of alerts [...]
There is no shortage of smart home and internet of things products available. The problem, though, is cost. Company's build out these massive expensive products that require intrusive installation. One company, SensePlug.io, has come up with a cheaper, less intrusive home automation product. This is the SAM. The SAM is an, "Easy and affordable Plug-in [...]
We all know that crowdfunding is inspiring innovation across many sectors both technical and not so technical. We've seen some great wearable technology, mobile apps, games and even a really cool phone case or two. One sector that's really benefited from the crowdfunding explosion is photography. Just yesterday we reported on Otto a new physical [...]
While still in college themselves Brendan Weinstein and Doug Messer started DBFly Watches, a watch company that emphasized form, function and fashion for today's college student. The brand was appealing because the watches were priced under $50 and featured interchangeable faces and bands. It was easy and affordable for the DBFly customer to have multiple [...]
There is no shortage of cameras available. You've got mirrorless cameras, DSLRs, point-and-shoot, action cameras, among many more varieties. More-or-less, all of these cameras do just about the same thing, just in varying degrees and qualities. However, we just came across a new Kickstarter campaign that has a very unique approach to the camera. The [...]
Since first announced over two years ago at Google's annual Google I/O developer conference, the world has been waiting (or at least Google hopes the world has been waiting) for a mainstream launch of the wearable eye wear known as Google Glass. At that Google I/O conference Google was showing off Google Glass and unlike [...]
