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A Tesla and Twist test drive all in one
Yesterday I got to drive a Tesla S test drive. But why? To try out a new iPhone app that lets people know when you are going to arrive. Get the app here: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/twist/id449988837?mt=8 I've been using it for the past few weeks and...
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In-depth look at contextual SDK from Qualcomm
Context. It's the next frontier. Your mobile phone will know a lot more about you. Not just where you are, but what you are doing. What you are looking at, and more. Why does this matter? Here Ian Heidt, who runs the Gimbal team, talks to me about Qualcomm's...
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Kinect startup helps surgeons work without touching a computer (remains sterile)
If you are a surgeon you can't touch anything while operating on a patient. Why not? Because if you touch something like a keyboard or an iPad's screen you need to rescrub in. This wastes tons of money and time. Learn more at http://gestsure.com/ This...
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Newsgrape helps bloggers get traffic and engagement
If you are a blogger and rarely get comments or much traffic, you'll like Newsgrape. What is it? A new community that helps your content get noticed. It's sort of like how YouTube helps you get found in search, and in related videos. Listen to Leo Fasbinder,...
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Saga shows off what Google Glasses could do (albeit today)
Saga is a new kind of app. It studies what you do. How you do it. When you do it. Where you do it. Who you do it with. It's an app that studies your context and builds an intelligent companion. Yes, it's iPhone only today, but will come to Android soon....
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A 3D low-cost product scanner (using Microsoft Kinect)
http://manctl.com/ shows me how its low-priced 3D scanner, named "Skanect" works. What does it do? While the Kinect is moved around, it captures new views of an object or a room and automatically computes a metric 3D model, in real-time. Skanect can also...
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Styku lets you scan your body and get proper fitting clothes
http://www.styku.com/business/ The future is here. You can use a Microsoft Kinect scanner and Styku to scan your body and get your size. It's very accurate and it will be showing up in some stores soon. This company is part of the Techstars' Kinect incubator...
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New Flock photosharing app automatically joins your photos
Flock is an awesome new photosharing app from the folks who made the famous iPhone app, Bump. What does it do? It automatically joins your photos with your Facebook friends. Listen in to how it works. Get it on the iTunes store, search for "Flock" or...
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A new spreadsheet, called Grid, and the mind behind it
http://grid.binarythumb.com/ Josh Leong worked at Microsoft. Was frustrated by his inability to get Microsoft to innovate. So he left and started a company to work on a new kind of spreadsheet. Go read the Techcrunch introduction of this company first:...
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One of world's top brand designers: Stanley Hainsworth
http://www.tetherinc.com/ designed the new Gatorade bottles and much more. He's been a creative director at Nike, Lego, and Starbucks. Here I have a talk with him about branding and design in preparation for a "Brand Warfare" talk I'm giving. What makes...
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Koding: Helping developers code together
You might think of Koding as a sort of social network for programmers but if you stopped there you'd be wrong. You can build entire apps inside Koding. It's growing fast and after getting a demo here you can see why. It helps you share resources, ideas,...
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VMware announces Horizon App Manager
Last year at VMworld, VMware previewed Project Horizon, its cloud-based management service, which is part of an effort to help companies embrace the cloud and the wealth of cloud applications currently available on the market. Today, VMware is announcing...
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PluralSight announces acquisition of TrainSignal for $23.6 million
Here Aaron Skonnard, founder of Pluralsight, a white hot training company, announced the acquisition of TrainSignal for $23.6 million. I talk to Aaron about that and also about the online training space. Pluralsight helps people learn to program in a...
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PARC Innovation Tour, Part V: In database privacy
How can you send a database, or give access to it, while making sure that different people can only see data that they are supposed to? Think of a spreadsheet. What if person A is only supposed to be able to see Rows A, C, and E, while person B is supposed...
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SRI, home of Siri, shows us a new way to work
On our tour through Silicon Valley's top research lab, SRI, we visited the computer science lab where SRI is inventing a new way to work, called "Bright." It watches you at every step of the way. Learn more on the work being done at SRI: http://www.sri.com/research-development/biomedical-sciences-health On...
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The bad-ass Silicon Valley VC talks context and lack of innovation in Silicon Valley
Chamath Palihapitiya impressed me last year with his straight-forward no bull approach. Plus he's invested in companies like box.net and AirBnB so he has a good eye for great entrepreneurs. But lately I've heard that his VC Fund, https://angel.co/the-social-capital-partnership,...
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Lynda.com co-founders tell me why they took $103 million
17 years ago Lynda Weinman and Bruce Heavin started Lynda.com, a training company, mostly aimed at creative people who were trying to learn things like Photoshop and Desktop Publishing. Today they just announced that they got $103 million in funding from...
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Behind the scenes with Oakley's AirWave wearable heads up display for skiiers
We've all heard about wearable computers that are coming, whether the Pebble watch or Google's Project Glass. But here's a team that actually shipped a product: Oakley's AirWave Googles for skiiers and snow boarders. This heralds the contextual age where...
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Basis to blow away Nike FuelBand and FitBit?
Here we get a look at the new Basis wearable computer (looks like a watch) which has four major sensors inside of it. I did an audio interview with the CEO here: https://soundcloud.com/scobleizer/revolutionary-product-released which goes into depth about...
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Car hacking with the Tesla S and Google Glass
This is Sahas Katta who wrote an app to control his dad's Tesla S via Google Glass. I hear Vic Gundotra (Google VP who runs Google+) already loves this app. Me? I love that he has to borrow his dad's car to debug the app (he usually drives an old Acura)....
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Tapingo: awesome way for college students to order food and drinks
It starts with context: what drink do you usually get on the way to class? Is it an iced latte? Fine, your mobile phone can order it for you as soon as you leave your dorm. How? Tapingo keeps track of your context. It's morning, for instance, and you've...
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Hello Doctor helps you keep track of your medical records on your iPad
Why do you need Hello Doctor? Well, if you have a complex medical case, you'll need to keep track of tons of different test results, along with details from lots of specialists. Guess what? The medical system won't do that for you! Here you hear about...
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Dysonics has a way to make headphones a lot better
How are low-cost sensors and compute changing our world? Listen to Dysonics which came up with a way to make headphones better. Keep the band in one place, for instance. The effect is stunning, I wish you all could hear what it sounds like. Take a look...
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Northface's founder compares starting a company now vs. 1970s
http://www.obscuradigital.com/ is one of the most innovative companies around. It builds digital experiences for a variety of companies. If you were at Facebook's latest F8 you saw it work when you walked in on a huge data wall. Here I meet with a group...
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Numecent will change how you get applications from the cloud
Business Insider wrote they were blown away by this startup. http://www.businessinsider.com/were-blown-away-this-startup-could-literally-change-the-entire-software-industry-2012-3 I can't disagree. This startup, Numecent, has some pretty mind-blowing...