The Pebble, a watch that is being developed to work with the iPhone, has raised more than $7 million in financing on Kickstarter, a case that has signified the site’s coming of age. http://nyti.ms/Ixx1gj
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Power2U– is the ONLY home-safe, UL Listed in-wall product on the market that incorporates two traditional three-prong AC wall sockets along with two USB 3.0/2.0/1.1 ports for charging and/or powering up to four devices at once. From Newer Technology, this easy to install AC/USB outlet eliminates the clutter created by multiple cables [...] Rule number one of Facebook’s Hackathon: If you’re new, you must hack! Facebook in Menlo Park, Calif. staged another Hackathon on Tuesday evening. The event kicked off around 7 p.m. at Facebook’s massive headquarters. During the course of the night, engineers and communications specialists alike will code and create new ideas that could potentially [...] Don’t miss learning about an app that allows you to shoot videos from front and back, a USB wall outlet, some very innovative free apps and a chipmaker that will help allow you to snack all the time and still lose weight. [...] What’s Wow Now Steve Greenberg, who is also the author of Gadget Nation and the star host of Invention Hunters on the Food Network, is about to do a gadget TV segment on Dr Oz. Steve takes us behind the scenes to show us what most TV viewers never get to see–the Jimmy Fallon [...] College students can now turn hours spent playing social games into tuition grants and philanthropic giving with recently launched startup Grantoo. The online gaming platform hosts brand-sponsored tournaments, giving companies the chance to earn recognition for their charitable giving. College students play games for free, with the hopes of winning money toward their education. [...] One in five Americans say they’ve read an e-book in the last year, according to a new poll from the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project. Those numbers come from a late-January survey, and they’re up sharply from a December 2011 survey. Pew says the jump coincides with a rise in e-reading [...] Google today went public with its plans to offer augmented-reality glasses, which it’s calling “Project Glass.” Unveiling the project should make it easier for Google to test the weird-looking glasses in public. As currently designed, they have a horizontal frame that rests on a wearer’s nose, with a wider strip of computer and a [...] Paul McCartney’s son wants his fellow Fab Four offspring to come together for their own version of Beatlemania. James McCartney, Sir Paul’s 34-year-old son, claims he’s already getting a little help from his friends, Sean Lennon, 37, and Dhani Harrison, 33, to get their dads’ old band back together. “I’d be up for it. [...] With pet obesity on the rise in the U.S. and the U.K., perhaps it was only a matter of time before someone came up with an elevator targeted at obese pets. Dubbed “Stair of the Dog 2022,” the prototype was created by U.K. pet insurance company More Than as a way to publicize [...] |
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