Wireless Speaker, Color Lightbulb, Wifi Hotspot, All In One: Whome Bulb

Did you ever think you would see the day when lightbulbs could supply more than just light? Sure there are those lamp socket outlet contraptions but their both outdated and a little dangerous. Well the power of LEDs combined with Wifi have created an opportunity that can turn a lightbulb into much much more. How [...]

Ubi – The Always On, Voice Activated Computer

We have been covering an abundance  of crowdfunding campaigns over the past several months, but we just came across an older one that is finally coming to fruition. The image above is the Ubi - The Ubiquitous Computer. The Ubi is an always on, always listening, voice-activated computer: The Ubi plugs into a power outlet and [...]

TiLoTag: A New Take on Messaging

We are inundated with all sorts of messages these days. It is just a constant barrage. Images of food, or comments about Draw with Friends, or some such nonsense has little to no impact on our daily lives. Why then, are these messages treated the same as vitally important messages. There has to be a [...]

Sherlybox: The 1TB Cloud, on your Desk

As cloud storage continues to expand, there has been a subtle, yet noticeable shift back towards physical storage. There are several companies that are making great strides in physical storage, and they are doing so in the context of the cloud. We told you a little bit about the MBLOK - a Bluetooth external storage [...]

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SmartQuad Charger: Never Leave Another Device Uncharged

If you are like us, you often have more devices than outlets, especially when traveling. This is a real pain as you have to set up a hierarchy of importance, and often leave several devices uncharged. No longer. Feast your eyes on the SmartQuad 4 Port Travel Charger from Skiva: The SmarQuad is a "Universal [...]

KLAX: Badass Ax Head Multi-Tool on Kickstarter

We love a good crowdfunding campaign. However, it seems like the great majority of these campaigns that we cover are not really in any way practical for everyday life. Most are novelties. There have been a ton of cool an interesting ones, but they seem to be more extravagant than anything. There was the mission [...]

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Crowdfunding: 360Cam Blows Past Their $150,000 Kickstarter Goal

We cover a lot of great crowdfunding campaigns here on techfaster.com. On May 21st we reported on the 360cam from Giroptic.  The 360° cam by Giroptic is the first ultra high definition camera that breaks through the barriers of the frame and captures what’s going on up, down and all around. It does this with [...]

Interview: Steve Chen The Man Behind GemWhere Smart Watch

Meet Steve Chen the man behind the GemWhere Smart Watch, the best smart watch out there today. We've seen a lot of smart watches so far. Most of them are filled with glitzy cool features, but one smartwatch has stood out as a truly functional piece of equipment that you can wear on your wrist. [...]

Megalo Mini: Small Enough For Your Keychain, Powerful Enough to Charge Your Phone

Again, it is no secret that we love external batteries. Kyle has been known to walk around conferences with tens of thousands of milliamps in reserve. Anyhow, there is a real balancing act when it comes to finding the perfect external power source. You can load up and get a big, bulk battery with tons of [...]

The ODIN: Android Powered Smart Projector

There are a ton of different projectors on the market. Most are fairly bland, with just your general projection functionality. However, we just came across a real game-changer. The ODIN projector, from Dos Owls. The ODIN is much, much more than a projector: According to the creators, the ODIN is, the first "Android 'Smart' projector [...]