We’ve seen them before in concept -cylindrical smartphones, foldable screens, and bendable devices – but they may be closer to reality than you realize. FlexEnable has developed technology that allows screens and active displays to bend without breaking. FlexEnable is pushing the … Continue reading Flexible Electronics Are Here Today
Aivvy Q is an all-in-one music-playing device that pulls music down from the cloud for you without a handheld music player. Music begins to play as soon as you put them on, and your preferences are cached as you interact … Continue reading Get Your Head In the Cloud with these Cloud-Driven Headphones
Soundbrenner Pulse is the world’s first wearable metronome, designed to help musicians keep time through haptic feedback that lets you literally feel the music. Its powerful companion app allows you to synchronize your Pulse with other musicians so you’re all playing … Continue reading Startup Spotlight: Feel the Beat, Literally, with Soundbrenner Pulse
Apple Watch lets you send your heartbeat to your friends, but this wearable actually does something useful with it. If you’re like me, you have more passwords and logins than you can remember. If you’re on top of things, you’ve … Continue reading Startup Spotlight: Nymi, the Wearable that Listens to Your Heart
Last March I had the pleasure of meeting Loretta Faveri, inventor of SOMO (SOund in MOtion) by SonicWear, a wearable device that turns the body into … Continue reading SOMO SOund & MOvement Workshop
“This is all we need to step into the holographic landscape,” says Alex Kipman, head of Kinect at Microsoft. “Today you’re not only going to see that holograms are real, but everyone is going to experience holograms for themselves in … Continue reading Microsoft’s HoloLens Launches us Into a Future of Holographic Computing
One of the biggest challenges of designing health-focused wearables is making sure that people want to wear them for their looks as much as for their functionality. Fitbit and Jawbone are not known for their style factor – in fact, … Continue reading Startup Spotlight: Ear-O-Smart Smart Earrings
