New Yorkers Get Free Power In The Parks After the Hurricane left many New Yorkers stranded without power, the city revealed its 25 solar powered charging stations in public places such as park throughout the five boroughs. The program is sponsored by AT&T and the city of New York. (DUMBO firm Pensa handled design, and … Read more
Lumu Kickstarter Digital Light Meter On iPhone Lumu has launched a Kickstarter campaign to sell their digital light meter’s for the iPhone. They will be building a small device that allows iPhone photographers or just regular iPhone users who want to get more professional photographs and videos to be able to check the lighting situation … Read more
Amazon’s 3D Printing Store Amazon has created a 3D printing store vaulting the technology into the mainstream. Now, anyone can go and have their 3D design printed and shipped to them thanks to Amazon. With stores like Staples now selling cube 3D printers the business and technology is growing at an exponential rate. It used … Read more
Casio’s Latest Edifice Surf Watch The Casio EMA 100-1AV Edifice watch that comes with tide graph and moon-phase data is launching this summer for surf season. The Casio is best known for their line of G-Shock line of plastic sports watches. The steel case model is something new for the brand. The new watch is … Read more
George Lucas and Steven Spielberg Predict Fall of Film Industry Due To Technology Steven Spielberg and George Lucas had a recent talk at USC and the pair agreed that the film industry was going to have a “massive implosion” due to the tech industry. Notably, they are blaming easily accesible content through the internet and … Read more
Optimizely Boosted Sim City Pre Order Revenue Startup company Optimizely has released a case study today on how a high-profile game launch was boosted using their A/B split testing tools. Recently raising over $28 million in Series A funding talks about how they boosted revenues for Electronic Arts SimCity preorders. EA had used different mechanisms … Read more
Facebook To Incorporate Hashtags Twitter is widely known for having hashtags galore. Twitter basically invented hashtags as we know them today. However there is a new competitor that will be utilizing hashtags, Social giant Facebook. The announcement came just recently, but has been in anticipation for quite a while now. As long as 3 years … Read more
App To Remote Control Your Home Ever dreamed of remotely controlling your entire phone? Well now it’s not as far off as you may think, thanks to a kickstarter campaign by Benki. Not only will you be able to remotely control your own, you will be able to monitor your own. You will be able … Read more
Shopgate Raises $7M To Help Retailers Maximize Mobile Storefronts And Sales The mobile e-commerce startup Shopgate has announced that is has received Series B funding today. TechCrunch reported it initially that they had received $7 million in funding. The company based out of Palo Alto and Germany gives customers a native app and mobile web … Read more
CIA Invests In Robot Writers The Central Intelligence Agency may be shifting along with the Obama Administration for the country’s drone program to now focus on the Pentagon, however robots can still find jobs at Langley. Now as writers, apparently. In-Q-Tel, which is the CIA’s venture capital wing, is now investing in a company called … Read more
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