The Offline Glass Ensures You Talk, Not Text, At The Bar
# 2013-06-18 10:14:37, TechCrunch
Tired of your friends texting on their phones while they should be getting schnockered? This clever hack is called the Offline Glass and it's designed to ensure that you and your friends don't sit at the bar checking Wikipedia for who starred in The Greatest American Hero and whether Tabitha will to...Why Haven't Mugs Told Us the Coffee's Temperature Until Now?
# 2013-06-18 09:32:51, Gizmodo
If you've got $38 to spare and a few weeks to wait for delivery, Brando's got a new temperature sensing travel mug that guarantees you'll never again burn your mouth on scalding hot coffee—or accidentally sip a stale brew that's gone cold.Read more...Kazam Is Another European Startup Hoping Against Hope To Inch In To The Smartphone Hardware Market
# 2013-06-18 09:05:17, TechCrunch
Hardware is so hot right now. So hot, in fact, that another European hardware startup is formulating an attack on the smartphone hardware space -- joining the likes of Finland's Jolla and Spain's Geeksphone to have a go at handset making. The newest comer stepping in with a plan to shake up the "sta...Goji Is A Smart Lock For Your Home That Has Nothing To Do With Berries
# 2013-06-18 03:37:44, TechCrunch
Welcome to the era of the round, shiny in-home automation system. While Nest led the charge early on, a new device, called Goji, is taking up the mantle. The Goji is an automatic deadbolt that looks like HAL 2000's eye and can take pictures of folks who come to your door and allows you to lock - and...SunnyBot Is A Solar-Powered Robot That Tracks The Sun To Reflect Sunlight Wherever You Want It
# 2013-06-18 03:34:28, TechCrunch
Here's a neat greentech idea currently seeking crowdfunding on Kickstarter. SunnyBot is a microcomputer-powered robot that continually tracks the position of the sun, angling its on-board mirror so that it keeps reflecting the sun's rays onto a fixed point of your choice. The basic idea being to har...Zuckerberg And Samsung Meet, Raising Questions About Facebook's Future Mobile Plans
# 2013-06-18 03:26:04, TechCrunch
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg met with Samsung President Shin Jong Kyun this week to discuss how the two companies might work together to help Facebook reap more revenue from advertising sales targeted at mobile devices, according to Bloomberg. Kyun and Zuckerberg talked about possible partnerships b...Worried Who's Watching Your Web Browsing? Adafruit's Onion Pi Tor Proxy Project Creates A Private, P...
# 2013-06-17 23:40:25, TechCrunch
Adafruit Industries has put together a weekend project for people worried the NSA is monitoring how many reruns of Seinfeld they watch on their tablet. The Onion Pi Tor Proxy is a weekend project that uses the Raspberry Pi microcomputer, along with a USB WiFi adapter and Ethernet cable to create "a ...If You Watch One Daft Punk Remix Performed By Robots (And Jack Conte) Today, Make It This One
# 2013-06-17 15:40:56, TechCrunch
Jack Conte, musician and founder of Patreon, has been on a tear lately with a set of unique music remixes performed by him and a group of pneumatic robots that fire off audio sequences to create some amazing music.Living In The Future With The Form Labs Form 1
# 2013-06-17 10:47:47, TechCrunch
"The future is already here — it's just not very evenly distributed," wrote William Gibson. He's right. Luckily, the future is mostly in my attic workshop. I've been lucky enough to have access to a Form 1 3D printer for the past week and have come away with a better sense of the platform, the wa...Apple's 2013 13-Inch MacBook Air Sweetens The Deal For One Of The Best Available Computers
# 2013-06-17 09:11:17, TechCrunch
The MacBook Air was the only new Apple hardware to be announced and launched at WWDC this year (besides the new AirPort Extreme), and while it isn't a big change from the previous version, it packs some crucial improvements that really cater to the Air's existing strengths. The 2013 Air is really Ap...Lumu Launches Kickstarter To Fund Its Digital Light Meter For iPhone-Owning Photographers
# 2013-06-17 04:53:58, TechCrunch
Last we saw Lumu Labs it was in Hardware Alley at Disrupt New York where the Slovenian startup was showing off a prototype of its digital light meter plus iPhone app -- aiming to convince photographers to replace "bulky" traditional light meters with a pocketable gizmo that plugs into their iPhone. ...PIP Is A Bluetooth Biosensor That Aims To Use Your Phone To Gamify Beating Stress
# 2013-06-17 03:53:22, TechCrunch
Irish startup Galvanic has just launched a Kickstarter to crowdsource funding a wireless stress biosensor it's calling PIP. PIP is a Bluetooth biosensor that monitors its user's stress levels by measuring their galvanic skin response (GSR) as they hold the PIP pinched between thumb and forefinger. G...Up Close With Casio's Latest Edifice Surf Watch
# 2013-06-15 20:30:42, TechCrunch
With summer coming and surf season in full swing, I thought I'd take a closer look at the Casio EMA100-1AV Edifice watch with tide graph and moon-phase data. Casio is best known for their G-Shock line of beefy (and some would say ugly) plastic sports watches so this steel-cased model is a departure ...Oh God, What's a Good Last-Second Gift for a Dad?
# 2013-06-15 10:30:00, Gizmodo
Well, tomorrow's Father's Day and while it's almost too late to get a gift, it's not late enough to brush it off entirely without at least spending a minute or two trying to come up with something quick. Whaddoya got?Read more...This Week On The TC Gadgets Podcast: E3, The Death Of Symbian, And WWDC
# 2013-06-14 09:00:25, TechCrunch
It was a big week in gadgets, and thus, a big TC Gadgets podcast it shall be. This week, we discuss developments at E3, including Xbox One and PS4 pricing, the death of Nokia's Symbian OS, and of course, WWDC. Will you buy a PS4 or an Xbox One? Does despair fill you from nose to navel when you rem...PiCloud Is A Model Cloud Made Of Raspberry Pi & LEGO For Teaching Students About Web Platforms
# 2013-06-14 07:23:07, TechCrunch
Here's another interesting implementation of the $35 Raspberry Pi microcromputer -- or rather a stack of 56 Pis, linked together to form a model web platform called PiCloud, using LEGO bricks as bespoke racks for the Pi stacks. The project comes out of the University of Glasgow, and is intended as a...Samsung Flaunts Its Smartphone Lead By Opening An R&D Center On Nokia's Doorstep
# 2013-06-14 05:54:41, TechCrunch
Not content with following Nokia's past playbook, by saturating the mobile market with countless iterations of its smartphone hardware, pushing a whole Galaxy of gizmos at every price point and form-factor fancy you can think of, Samsung has gone one further. It's opened an R&D centre in Espoo, Finl...If Office Hits The iPad, Even Fewer People Would Buy A Surface
# 2013-06-14 02:45:07, TechCrunch
Remember this ad? The ad where Microsoft attempts to position the iPad as a chopstick-playing toy and the Surface as a PowerPoint-editing machine? Yeah, that's why we can't have nice things.Sony Turns Its Lackluster SmartWatch Into A Developer Playground
# 2013-06-13 06:44:15, TechCrunch
Back during the heady days of 2012, before the Pebble raised a crazy amount of money on Kickstarter, Sony quietly released an Android-compatible smartwatch of its own. By most accounts it wasn't very good, but that doesn't mean that Sony has relegated it to the trash pile. No, with hindsight being ...A Wrist Worn Blood Pressure Monitor That Doesn't Squeeze Like a Python
# 2013-06-13 04:27:08, Gizmodo
Most of us have our blood pressure checked whenever we visit the doctor for a physical, but high blood pressure—aka hypertension—can lead to serious medical conditions like a stroke or a heart attacks if left for too long. So a company called STBL Medical Research AG is adapting a pressure-sensi...Amazon Creates A 3D Printing Store, Vaulting The Technology Into The Mainstream
# 2013-06-13 03:05:16, TechCrunch
If you thought you and your RepRap were safe from posers, you're sunk: Amazon has just opened a store for 3D printers and printer accessories that seems to, at the very least, allow smaller manufacturers to get a foothold in an increasingly tight market.Apple Reportedly Trying 4.7- and 5.7-Inch Screens On iPhones Next Year, Cheaper Model Coming In Fall
# 2013-06-13 01:50:17, TechCrunch
Apple is looking at various changes to its iPhone lineup over the course of the next year, according to a new report from Reuters, including two sizes of larger smartphone devices, in both a 4.7-inch and 5.7-inch flavor. The "phablet" plans are also being considered alongside a less expensive iPhone...You're Not Wrong, Microsoft, You're Just An Asshole
# 2013-06-12 06:48:41, TechCrunch
"We have a product for people who aren't able to get some form of connectivity," explained Xbox chief Don Mattrick. "It's called Xbox 360." With those snarky words Microsoft lost E3. That much was clear as soon as Sony's press conference started. And it's not because the Xbox One is a bad system. I...Alabama-Based CMR Demos Programmable Magnets That Changes Polarity And Strength On A Whim
# 2013-06-12 06:44:50, TechCrunch
Magnets are pretty basic - some poles attract, some repel, and you can use them to hold stuff up on your fridge. However, what happens when magnets can be "programmed" to react in different ways? Huntsville, Ala.-based Correlated Magnetics Research has some magnets that can do some amazing - and sli...NFC Stands For Nobody F****** Cares And Apple Gets That
# 2013-06-12 04:46:19, TechCrunch
If you think QR codes are a bad joke then consider NFC. Near Field Communications' evangelists have been trying to get smartphone owners to share stuff by bumping and grinding their phones for years. And progress has been painful, to put it mildly. The reality is NFC is an ugly wasteland of non-use....Apple's iOS 7 Is A Smorgasbord For Game Developers, With Sprite Kit, Game Controller Support And Mor...
# 2013-06-12 04:39:52, TechCrunch
Apple's developer bits are generally the bigger picture story that comes out of WWDC, and some details are slowly emerging about those 1,500 or so new APIs Apple has added for devs to take advantage of. Some of the better news is around new gaming technologies, which should result in much improved e...An Itty Bitty Card Reader That Doesn't Care Which USB End Is Up
# 2013-06-12 03:49:06, Gizmodo
If you're rocking a classic laptop that hails from the time before SD card readers were a standard feature, Buffalo's got you covered with an incredibly petite flash card reader that promises to handle up to 45 different formats. Of coure, that's taking into account the endless varieties of SD, mini...Google Glass Gets A Teardown, Revealing It Can Be Hacked To Prescription Glasses
# 2013-06-12 03:38:56, TechCrunch
Google Glass isn't in the hands of consumers yet, but a pair of intrepid Glass explorers didn't let that stop them from taking the thing apart to see what makes it tick. This teardown is also especially pleasing in terms of shot composition and image quality, so if you're hankering for a really good...The Mysterious Case Of The Missing Jawbone Up
# 2013-06-12 03:16:52, TechCrunch
It seems a week doesn't go by without finding out about a malfunctioning Jawbone Up band. The wearable step tracking bracelet measures how much you move each day and how well you sleep. It was relaunched late last year in the US, and came to Asia in March.Samsung Just Killed Nokia's ‘True PureView' Windows Phone And It's Not Even Unboxed Yet
# 2013-06-11 23:40:03, TechCrunch
Poor Nokia. Samsung doesn't stop. It's just announced a new iteration of its flagship Galaxy S4 handset which has a digital camera embedded in its rump. The Galaxy S4 Zoom has a 10X optical zoom lens on the back, giving it two clear aspects: from the front it looks exactly like Samsung's flagship S4...
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