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We Need Your Help To Design The Hardware Battlefield Trophy
We are about to embark on amazing adventure and we need your help. In January we are holding our first Hardware Battlefield in Las Vegas, Nevada to coincide with CES. We will bring 15 great hardware startups, a gaggle of amazing judges, and a 3D-printed trophy of your design. Read More
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Airfy Is A Wi-Fi Hotspot That You Wouldn’t Be Ashamed To Take Home To Mother
Wi-Fi routers are usually boring. Designed to look as innocuous as possible, designers basically go for the "black box with lights on it" approach and head home. Not Airfy. Read More
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Gift Guide: Tools And Toys For The Amateur Or Master Photographer
Taking pictures is fun, frustrating and rewarding. But the right gear helps minimize the frustration and bump up the other two. This guide covers a range of photographers, from amateur mobile shooters to those with the best gear operating at or near the professional level, so there should be something for everyone. And remember: When in doubt, batteries. Read More
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SmartCharge Wants You Not To Notice Power Outages – At Least Until The Milk Starts To Stink
When the power goes out, it's terrible. Nothing works, and for some reason it's impossible to remember that: I always find myself doing things like "well if I can't watch TV I can at least read this book, I'll just turn on the light..." and then nada of course. With SmartCharge, a new Kickstarter project, that might actually work, since it's an LED bulb with a built-in power reserve that remains… Read More
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Big 3D Printing Needs To Stop The Bullying
Stratasys, one of the two giants in the 3D printing market (the other is 3DSystems), is on a roll. This summer it bought one of the biggest and beloved home 3D-printer makers, MakerBot, and watched its printers churn out the first 3D-printed gun. Now it's back in the news for suing printer reseller Afinia for infringing on its patents. Read More
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DioGenix
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Sugru To Offer A Kit To Attach Anything To Anything
While attaching one thing to another is a fairly basic process - epoxy is still a thing, after all - what do you use if you want to occasionally remove that thing from the other thing? The answer? Magnets. And Sugru. Read More
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The Next-Gen USB Plug To Be Smaller And Finally Reversible
Our long worldwide nightmare is almost over. The next USB plug will finally be reversible just like Apple’s Lightning connector. No more blindly jamming the connector towards the receptacle, just knowing that it’s not going to work. In the near future, the plug will always be the right side up. The upcoming connector, called Type-C, is designed for the USB 3.1 specification and… Read More
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Misfit Raises $15.2M From Li Ka-shing’s Horizons Ventures For Its Activity Tracker, The Shine
Misfit Wearables, the hardware startup that built a sleek activity tracker called the Shine, just picked up $15.2 million from Li Ka-shing’s Horizons Ventures in a big, new growth round. Jason Wong, a director at the Hong Kong-based firm, will be joining the board. Misfit added that all of its existing investors, including Founders Fund… Read More
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The Android-Powered, Dual-Screen YotaPhone Launches In Russia And Beyond For €499
Remember the YotaPhone? The delightfully kooky Russian smartphone that pairs a bog-standard LCD screen with an eInk display on its rump? It's been teased for a launch for months now, but the company behind it has just spilled the beans at a press event in Moscow: the YotaPhone will launch in Russian and Europe today complete with a confirmed €499/19,990 RUB price tag, right in line with rumors… Read More
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New Card Skimmer Attaches To A Real POS Card Reader Like A Nasty Succubus
Brian Krebs has found a fascinating example of a card skimmer - essentially a machine that steals your credit card number - that masquerades as a real POS terminal. The skimmer fits over the ubiquitous Verifone POS reader and even reads key-presses. It is virtually indistinguishable from the actual POS card reader and can be slipped on and off without the retailer's knowledge - or, more… Read More
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IntelClinic’s NeuroOn Launches On Kickstarter, Promises To Let You Sleep Like Da Vinci
If you need a better night's sleep you can either kick the chickens out of your bed (true story) or try something like the NeuroOn. Designed to work as a sleep mask and neural sensor, the system knows when you are in deep REM sleep and slowly wakes you when you will be most alert and refreshed. It also allows DIY sleep experimenters to take cat naps during the day, opening up whole new vistas of… Read More
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Microsoft’s Project Spark DIY Game Creation Software Beta Begins Today
Microsoft has recognized that people appreciate the chance to make their own stuff, possibly due to the success of PlayStation exclusive LittleBigPlanet, and that's why it created Project Spark, previewed back in June at E3. Spark is an even more freeform game creation engine with a focus on simultaneous game playing and building, which also encourages sharing among friends and family. Read More
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Sony Sells Over Two Million PS4 Units In Two Weeks
After revealing that Sony had sold 250k PS4 units in the UK over opening weekend, the company has finally announced global sales over the past two weeks. According to Sony's PlayStation blog, the company sold 2.1 million units of the PlayStation 4 in the past two weeks, starting on November 15th on launch day. Sony also mentioned that, in the first 24 hours of availability, the company sold… Read More
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Canon’s Long-Awaited EOS M2 Hopes To Improve On Canon’s First Mirrorless With Improved AF
Canon's first kick at the mirrorless market was without question a disappointing debut: The EOS M first launched in 2012, and was a let-down mostly because of its incredibly sluggish autofocus, as well as other quirks like a screen blackout that happened immediately after taking a picture. Canon seems to have addressed both issue with the new design, added Wi-Fi, and left most of the rest… Read More
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Apple Patents Face Recognition Tech For Enhanced iPhone Privacy And Automated Controls
Apple has been issued a patent by the USPO today (via AppleInsider) that describes a system for using facial recognition and detection on a mobile or desktop computing device. This could work a lot like the Android face unlock option, which has been criticized before for its fallibility, but is also designed to prompt activity and use facial expressions as input for controlling the device. Read More
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YuFu Is A Range Of Bluetooth 4.0 Styli For Pro Digital Artists & Amateur Scribblers
Hex3, the company behind a successfully Kickstarted pressure-sensitive stylus called JaJa, and a follow-up stylus for tablets, called Nota, which had a (relatively) fine 3.7mm tip to make scribbling on a slate more precise, is expanding its line-up with three new stylus products -- under a new brand name, YuFu. Read More
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Eleven James Is A New Startup That Lets You Rent Your Wrist Wear
Why should the ladies have all the fun? Like Le Tote and Rent The Runway, a new start-up, Eleven James, is offering something men may find alluring: the opportunity to wear a cool new watch every few months for a monthly fee. Read More
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Amazon Is Joining, Not Starting, The Drone-Delivery Revolution
Jeff Bezos shocked Middle America during a CBS “60 Minutes” segment with Charlie Rose: 30-minute Amazon deliveries by drones. Whether it’s a real product or genius PR stunt on the eve of the biggest online shopping day of the year, it doesn’t matter. The idea of a sky full of drones just hit the mainstream. Amazon isn’t the first company to experiment delivery by… Read More
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Misfit Wearables Finally Launches An Android App For Its Activity Tracker, The Shine
Misfit Wearables, the Khosla and Founders Fund-backed startup that builds elegant activity tracking hardware, is patching up a weak spot with the launch of its new Android app today. It was something that prospective customers balked at when the company launched back in the summer. Misfit makes the Shine, a quarter-sized activity tracker that’s popular among women and costs about $99.95. The… Read More
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PlayStation 4 Sells 250K Units In The UK During Launch Weekend, But Steam One-ups With 7M Concurrent Users
The PlayStation 4 took home the record for sales of a launch console this weekend in the UK, topping 250,000 units sold in 48 hours, which tallies up to around $1.4 billion U.S. in sales, according to The Telegraph. That's far better than the PlayStation 3 managed back when it launched, and a good 100K units better than the 150,000 units reportedly sold by Microsoft during its Xbox One launch in… Read More
