You may know Levar Burton from his days as Geordi La Forge from Star Trek: The Next Generation. You may remember him from his role in Roots or if you're like me, you learned to read watching countless hours of Burton on Reading Rainbow. Reading Rainbow had an incredible run on PBS for 21 years. [...]
Its no secret that we love power - external power sources, chargers, and just about anything power-related that you can think of. Most of the time, we look at some wildly inventive devices. However, we just came across a re-imagining of the wall charger. This is the ENERGI 2K from Tylt: It looks just like [...]
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 [...]
While we were down in Jacksonville for One Spark, we had a chance to check out the Marbel Electric Skateboard. It was easily my favorite thing at the festival. Anyhow, Marbel just launched a Kickstarter Campaign to fund the mass production of the boards. Here is what I wrote about the board after first seeing [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Sanho Corporation, the company behind the Hyper line of mobile and computer accessories, recently unveiled the iStick via a crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter. The iStick is the first flash drive that comes with both a standard USB connector and an Apple MFi Certified lightning connector. The lightning connector means that you can connect the iStick [...]
