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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Decide.com brings crowdsourced product recommendations
Read up on http://decide.com new features, as written up on the Next Web: http://thenextweb.com/insider/2012/07/31/decide-com-taps-the-power-of-the-web-with-crowdsourced-product-recommendations/ Here you see Mike Fridgen, CEO of Decide.com talk 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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The Israeli's education startup that is making math and science learning more fun
Shimon Schocken, associate professor of computer science at IDC Herzliya, in Israel, shows me a new kind of education tool to teach math and science. I get an in-depth look at it here. Shimon spoke recently at TED Global. That video is here: http://blog.ted.com/2012/06/26/forget-grades-lets-have-fun-with-math-shimon-schocken-at-tedglobal-2012/ Shimon...
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Minority Report arrives with Oblong (Part II) -- Mind blowing UI
This is part II (Part I at http://youtu.be/fcMhZ9J0qN8 showed off the technology, in Part II you see where Oblong is taking the technology and productizing it). John Underkoffler, chief scientist, Oblong Industries, was the tech advice behind the film...
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Best of breed TV guide launches on iPad
There are lots of TV guides on iPads, including a pretty good one from TV Guide itself. But the TV Guide one isn't personalized like Next Guide is. It's also not as beautiful. Here I meet with Jeremy Toeman, CEO of Dijit, which today is launching this...
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A look at Brewster's latest -- new contact manager for mobile
Brewster https://www.brewster.com/ calls itself a personalized address book and the first version didn't capture my interest, but I saw some good concepts there, so I wanted to get together with Steve Greenberg to see the latest, which has many improvements....
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Sencha demonstrates HTML 5 can be faster than native iOS or Android apps (Facebook example)
You've heard that Facebook switched from HTML 5 to "native" apps on iOS and Android recently to "speed them up." That pissed off the developers from Sencha http://www.sencha.com/ So they built a Facebook app completely in HTML 5 that's even faster than...
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Seagate's new "Wireless Plus" hard drive brings storage to mobile
If you have an iPad and you need a way to store, say, movies, you might find yourself running out of space. Particularly if you have kids who love watching tons of videos and movies. What's the way out of this instead of buying a very expensive iPad with...
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Plantronics shows how sensors will change every product
As I get around the world of business looking for stories about how we're headed into an age of context, where sensors, wearable computers, big data, social data, and location data will be combined to change our products and our companies I can think...
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Dabkick lets you share media live with your friends
Sometimes I just shoot entrepreneurs to hear what they are trying to do and am not all that excited by the use case. This is one of those times. +DabKick lets you use your mobile phone with your friends and share photos and video at the same time. I think...
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Tagwhat: a mobile app that shows you stuff near you
Tagwhat delivers rich content about the places around you. Now it goes further, bringing you actionable messages from Facebook. See offers, etc, while you walk through the world. This could be very useful when we get Google Glass, those wearable computers...
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Leapster GS: a better video game system for kids
http://leapfrog.com makes electronic toys for kids. Part I of this interview, at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2P-CryTxwI shows its LeapPad tablet. Here you see its video game console, the Leapster GS. These games aren't like what are on iPhones or...
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Object Rocket: Hyper-fast MongoDB (Database for contextual age)
http://www.objectrocket.com/ What does Object Rocket do? It makes a version of the MongoDB database that's very fast. It's a database-as-a-service (DBaaS). The only solution that is by default highly available, automatically sharded and unbelievably fast....
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Audi Sportscar Experience with SCOTTEVEST CEO Scott Jordan
Check this out. Part I: http://youtu.be/NtGlTXOxxjI shows you Scott Jordan, CEO of SCOTTEVEST talking about his clothes and company that he started to serve geeks. But here we spent a day racing Audi's as part of the Audi Sportscar Experience. It was...
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Small brushless motors make electronic skateboards possible
Boosted Boards are a lot of fun. What is that? It's a company that makes electronic skateboards using new brushless electric motors. These motors weren't possible a few years ago, they require large amounts of computing power that now has arrived thanks...