Added 24 March, 2013
Samsung is working on a smart watch, the company has confirmed, even as speculation mounts that a wrist-based gadget will be Apple's next offering. One challenge any fancy watch would face is battery life. A smart watch could avoid this pitfall by using an e-ink screen, which only uses power when it changes the display.
Added 23 March, 2013
Typical will be this watch and touchscreen display device that can control smartphones and installed apps from a user’s wrist via Bluetooth wireless technology. Called a Portable Control Display Device, this product will mean anyone who owns a smartphone will be able to have a secondary bi-directional wireless smartphone control and display...
Added 22 March, 2013
It makes sense, really. Taxi passengers are a captive audience who are on the go, have money, and are often in a hurry to grab something quick. TaxiTreats is a new company that asked "what if we could grab the products we need on the way to our destination?" Their answer is a credit card-based, in-cab vending machine with touchscreen technology...
Added 21 March, 2013
Good for you, or marketing gimmick? You decide. Either way, it beverages infused with various healthful additives are opening up a new grocery category. A good example is Omega Infusion, a omega-3-enhanced water product that claims to deliver 80mg of omega-3s, 200-percent of the recommended daily amount of vitamin C, and 80% of four B vitamins.
Added 20 March, 2013
Tired of waking up and having to wait for your morning java to brew? Are you one of those groggy early morning types that just needs that extra kick? Apparantly, caffeine can also be absorbed through the skin and Shower Shock, a caffeinated bar soap, offering 200 milligrams of caffeine per "serving."
Added 20 March, 2013
Along with the current trend of monitoring your body's vital signs with wearable computers like the Nike+ FuelBand, we are seeing products designed to monitor your environment as well.
CubeSensors are small, wireless, connected devices that continuously measure temperature, humidity, noise, light, air quality and barometric pressure. They can even...
Added 19 March, 2013
Every once in a while we see a new hotel or experience that requires its guests to unplug from modern life. Camp Grounded in California is just such a place, designed for grown-ups to be kids again. Designed as a nostalgic 1970's boy scouts camp, their off-the-grid weekends feature everything from stargazing, hiking, creative workshops and writing...
Added 19 March, 2013
Coke's "happiness project" has already seen other innovations with vending machines, including a machine in Singapore that you can hug, and a machine in Turkey that gives you a Coke if you can prove you are a couple. Next up?
Vending machines capable of connecting users in two distant places who will actually be able to see each other and "touch"...
Added 18 March, 2013
Here's a hot seller on Kickstarter that embraces two trends in one go: reusing materials that would otherwise go into landfills, and protecting privacy in the form of an ultra-thin layer of a high tech material called Cryptalloy that blocks RFID signals. EpicStroke wallets are made from the vinyl images that create roadside billboards and claim to...
Added 18 March, 2013
In addition to protecting phones from drops and spills, cases pretty much are designed to, well, make phones more pretty. However, we keep seeing new cases designed to add more than good looks. Spraytect, a smartphone case with a detachable pepper spray cartridge, is a case in point, turning your mobile phone into a defensive weapon. The pepper...