Back at Mobile World Congress, Lenovo unveiled three new smartphones. Yesterday, Lenovo made the top-of-the line S860 (above) available for pre-order in India, and will be priced at $349 unlocked. This is a unique, and kind of odd, handset. Lenovo's main selling point for the S860 is the massive battery: "Its huge 4000mAh battery delivers up [...]
Bruno Francois had a really exciting trip to the Shark Tank when he presented his company Cycloramic (Egos Ventures) to the sharks on January 31st. It doesn't happen often but Francois' technology that uses an iPhone's gyroscope, cyclometer and vibrator to make the device turn around in a 360 motion, on it's own, wowed all [...]
It seems the original instant/daily deals app is back and going for a shot at standing on it's own two feet. Ben Tyson, the founder of Five & Fifty, is a serial entrepreneur, an adventurer and the youngest ever inductee into the Pipeline Entrepreneurial Fellowship for his work on Google Earth, so he has some [...]
This year at One Spark there will be a huge variety of products on display and one of the coolest things that I've spotted that will be in attendance thus far is actually a board game. Get Signed is a roll of the die-style music trivia board game that begins at the "unsigned" spot and [...]
The public response to the news that Facebook would be acquiring Oculus for $2 billion has been, overwhelmingly, negative. So negative, in-fact, that many members of the Oculus team have been receiving death threats over the acquisition. This broadness of the negative sentiment came as a surprise to the Oculus team. In an interview with GameInformer, Oculus Vice President of Product Nate Mitchell noted that the company expected their existing user base to be upset, but not the general public.
An idea that started many many years ago with handmade signs on grocery store bulletin boards has evolved over the years. Ebay was the first company to take the concept online, selling your old stuff. There are actually many place to sell your own stuff, but the problem with most of them is that they [...]
One of the biggest problems facing the enterprise is that of mobility. Most large-scale companies use massive "packaged on-premise applications, cloud-based applications, or custom-built systems" to run their business. These applications, although incredibly useful on a PC or Mac, are difficult to use when mobile. However, StarMobile solves this problem.
Samsung continues their tireless effort to take over the tablet space currently dominated by Apple's iPad. Going back three generations now, Samsung continues to release two models of their flagship tablet. This generation is no different. With the Samsung Galaxy Tab 4 which will be available in a 7" and a 10.1" model as well. [...]
There are tons of companies building technology for and innovating in the restaurant industry.Tons. My experience has been that the majority of these companies are more concerned with the consumer, building ordering apps or aggregating menus. There is very little innovation in the restaurant kitchen. However, there is a One Spark Creator - OrderUpp - looking to do just that.
Buzzy is an incredibly unique product. Buzzy, "is an award-winning physiologic pain blocker. Using cold and vibration, Buzzy is proven to naturally block unpleasant sensations on contact."
