Category: innovation

Microsoft Invented the Pebble smartwatch

What if I told you there’s a smartwatch on the market for $150 with a dozen digital watch faces, personalized news, traffic, weather, email, text messaging, and calendar? What if I told you that this watch was put on the market a decade ago, and built by Microsoft? As much as this sounds like the crowdfunded Pebble smart watch, which raised $10 million on...

What It’s Like To Wear Glass (the google kind)

I’ve always understood the concept of Google glass, but until I put them on this weekend, I couldn’t fathom paying $1500 for something that will be obsolete next year. I finally understand Glass, and I’m going to do my best to help you do the same.   What’s it like wearing Google Glass? From the outside it looks weird and bulky, but wearing Glass,...

2013: The Year of the Light Bulb?

Legend has it that it took Thomas Edison 1000 tries to perfect his lightbulb. Oddly enough, given the technical innovation we’ve seen in the past few decades, the bulbs we use are largely the same as they were a century ago. Sign up for our newsletter here. 2013 seems to be the year of the lightbulb, with a variety of new lightbulbs hitting the...

Pet Pluto? Disney’s Latest Creation Brings Feeling To the Touchscreen

We’ve seen some pretty amazing things on video, like a device that charges phones with fire, and a rocket than can hover, and land precisely where it took off, but we haven’t seen many cooler innovations than Disney Labs’s latest creation. In a video unveiling this week, engineers at Disney Labs unveiled a method for bringing feel to touchscreens. This isn’t just static touch...

Startup of the Month: Geartag – Smart Tags That Help Find Your Lost Stuff

How often have you lost a pair of headphones, or a certain cable, or your keys, or even your phone? I know that amongst my pile (I keep my stuff in piles) of technology gear, things tend to get lost right when I need them. August’s startup of the month, (Geartag) claims to eliminate that issue, using an app, and a small tag. Geartag,...