Juli Clover, writing for MacRumors: Apple’s talks with companies in the payment industry have been heating up in recent months, according to a new report from The Information. Apple executives have discussed launching a mobile payment solution as soon as … Continue reading →
From the recently funded Kickstarter project: Meet Blink, the one-of-a-kind home monitoring system that’s ultra-affordable, simple to set up, and equally perfect for renters or homeowners. Our stylish, totally wire-free design houses innovative HD video technology, plus motion and temperature … Continue reading →
From the recently funded Kickstarter project: We created Sense to be simple, uncomplicated and useful. Sense is the first system that combines the insight of your sleep patterns with the data of the environment in your bedroom, including noise, light, … Continue reading →
Seth Rosenblatt, writing for CNET: Google’s self-driving car is an ambitious project that hopes to end human error behind the wheel with a very Googley solution: software. The tech titan’s robo-cars have logged more than 700,000 hours since it began … Continue reading →
Nick Wingfield, writing for the New York Times about the rise in popularity of board games, particularly those created by independent designers: New tools now power the creation of tabletop games — many in the strategy or fantasy genres — … Continue reading →
Joseph Stromberg, writing for Smithsonian: In a glowing review for the Los Angeles Times, Larry Magid expressed amazement over many of the metaphor and skeuomorphic features that would come to define the personal computer, surrounded by quotation marks that are … Continue reading →
The Onewheel, a self-balancing electric skateboard that was recently funded on Kickstarter, is what the Segway should have been: it has all of the convenience without any of the geekiness. I think this would be a great way to commute … Continue reading →
Signe Brewster writing for GigaOM: The leading transparent solar cells work by absorbing as much light as possible outside of the visible range. If a cell absorbs visible light it becomes reflective, rendering it opaque instead of transparent. At UCLA, … Continue reading →