August 11, 2015
Wearsafe Is A Connected Panic Button For The App Generation
At the Disrupt NY hackathon this year the winning hack was a live-streaming app called Witness whose team’s pitch was a desire to be the panic button for…
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August 5, 2015
Go Off-Grid With Silent Pocket’s Leather Goods
Ever get the feeling someone’s watching you? Of course you do; you use the Internet… So what’s the answer to pervasive tracking technologies? Well, one answer — at…
Read articleJuly 31, 2015
Requiem For The App Revolution
The app revolution is dead. In fact, it died years ago. It had been a good run, but a revolution is no longer a revolution when the model…
Read articleJuly 29, 2015
Vector Plans Developer Platform For Its ‘Affordable Luxury’ Smartwatch
Back in March the Vector — a smartwatch with an e-ink LCD screen — made its debut in a number of reviews in the tech press. Of note…
Read articleJuly 16, 2015
Misfit Debuts The Flash Link, A $20 Activity Tracker That Also Controls Apps And Smart Home Devices
For a company like Misfit, which got its start as the maker of an attractive health and fitness monitoring device that women would actually like to wear, it may…
Read articleJuly 10, 2015
Spain’s Geeksphone Exits Smartphones
Muere la revolución. Spanish smartphone maker Geeksphone has confirmed it’s stepping out of the mobile making game almost six years after founding a startup business to build handsets…
Read articleJuly 8, 2015
Creating A Universal Remote Control For Business Communications
In the ultimate paradox, we have spent the last several years untethering our workforces while technically intertwining our personal and professional lives. Yet, for many, the notion of…
Read articleJune 26, 2015
Apple Watch Lands In Seven New Countries, Coming To Three More July 17
The Apple Watch is expanding beyond the launch group of countries today, shortly after the device first became available for in-store purchase at Apple Retail with a reservation.…
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Bowling Central Will Turn Your Apple Watch Into A Wii Remote For Apple TV
The upcoming Apple Watch software update gives third-party developers access to the hardware’s accelerometer data, and that’s the feature one company is using to add Wii-like motion controls…
Read articleJune 23, 2015
Manus Machina Is Building Gaming Gloves For VR
Immersive headsets continue to lift off company drawing boards, in the hopes of powering a new wave of virtual reality in the consumer space — whether it’s the…
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