Turn Your Smartphone Into a Robot

Kickstarter Romotive have created an affordable robot that utilizes the processing power of a smartphone. The WSJ’s Michael Kofsky talks about why this innovation could power the future of robotics.

Kargo Mobile Teams Up with AT&T APIs & Developers

Kargo, one of the largest mobile publisher platforms explains how they are partnering with AT&T, their APIs and the development community as a whole to create rich mobile applications.

Pebble: E-Paper Watch for iPhone and Android

Pebble is the first watch built for the 21st century. It’s infinitely customizable, with beautiful downloadable watch faces and useful internet-connected apps. Pebble connects to iPhone and Android smartphones using Bluetooth, alerting you with a silent vibration to incoming calls, emails and messages. While designing Pebble, we strove to create a minimalist yet fashionable product that seamlessly blends into everyday life. 

Reengineering bicycle design with Tech 3.0

When we typically think of high tech travel, we start with aviation and end at automotive travel. Bicycling has always remained an antiquated mode of travel for the young, healthy and green consumer. Well, the designers at Visiobike intend to change that.

With capabilities to plug in your smartphone to derive travel analytics, cameras for rear view monitoring, gps plugins to track the location of your bicycle and security pins to engage and disengage your bicycle, this $6,000 bicycle hopes to reengineer the experience and the notion that bicycles cannot be high tech.

Is Ubuntu the Next Big Thing?

Ubuntu Touch beat Firefox OS to become the best of the Mobile World Congress. Find out what’s great about it - is it really better than Android?

Breezing: A revolutionary way to measure and track your metabolism

Helping you learn exactly how to eat in order to lose or gain weight beyond the obvious “stop housing McRibs”/”start housing McRibs”, the Breezing’s a pocket-sized, breathalyzer-esque gizmo that works in unison with a smartphone to measure your metabolism over time, then generate a highly customized diet and exercise plan.

When you breathe into it, data’s beamed to your phone over Bluetooth, and a dedicated app tracks changes from the last measurement, checking for shifts in “resting energy expenditure” and “respiratory quotient”. Then, based on your current weight and weekly fitness routine, it’ll recommend a target caloric intake for the day to reach your goal ASAP.

Omnidirectional camera with smartphone integration

This omnidirectional camera, currently under development by Ricoh, takes a full 360° panoramic image in one shot.

It has two fish-eye lenses, each of which covers 180 degrees. The camera combines the two pictures, and sends them via Wi-Fi to a tablet or smartphone for viewing. The idea is, the pictures you take arrive automatically.

When viewing it like a regular panoramic image, you can also see up and down. When you pull out from the image, it finally becomes a circle, and you can also look at it as a sphere.

This camera represents a step beyond SLRs and compact cameras. The project began with the idea that, if taking spherical panoramic photos was easy, the results might be fun.

Smarter Socks - Probably the smartest socks in the world

Blacksocks launched the world’s first smart pair of socks in the world. Smarter Socks consist of socks with a communication chip, the Sock Sorter and the BLACKSOCKS iPhone app.

OwnFone, the Simple Phone that Only Calls Your Important Contacts

OwnFone is a phone, but in a world of smartphones, it seems more like a walkie-talkie. But that’s it’s advantage. It’s a phone used for only calls to up to 12 contacts. It’s could be a good buy for kids, seniors or as a secondary.

Tactus technology allows physical buttons to rise from a touchscreen

What if buttons could morph out of the surface of your device? Tactus Technology has developed a new tactile user interface for touchscreen devices that does exactly that. Tactus provides a new dimension to touchscreens by enabling real, physical buttons that rise up from the surface on demand, and then recede back into the screen, leaving a perfectly flat, transparent surface when gone.