New Regenerative Shock Charges Your Car Battery
For some time now hybrid and electric vehicles have utilized regenerative braking systems – harvesting electricity and topping off the battery during the braking process – but there are plenty of other...
View ArticleThe First Mover Advantage Myth
The first mover advantage myth tells us that getting your product to the market first ensures certain advantages for your firm and product. Unfortunately, scores of anecdotes and reams of data say...
View Article3D Printed Prosthetics Could Reduce Prices 100X
This post originally appeared on TechCrunch The Dextrus hand is the working prototype resulting from Joel Gibbard’s Open Hand Project, an open source hardware initiative that aims to lower the cost of...
View ArticleQuantum Cryptography Progresses Towards Unbreakable Security
Yesterday’s NSA codebreaking revelations have left many (rightfully) concerned about the security of any type of encryption service. With the agencie ability to waltz in through prearranged back doors,...
View ArticleThe Nissan Smartwatch Takes the Fight to Samsung
This sleek new smartwatch was not made by Apple. Or Samsung. Or Motorola. Or an electronics manufacturer at all. The device you see above, which looks to be a much sleeker and futuristic, is the new...
View ArticleHow The Netflix Chaos Monkey Keeps Your Movies Streaming
Netflix‘s director of cloud solutions Ariel Tseiltlin recently sat down at the annual CloudBeat conference and detailed how his company keeps your favorite movies and TV shows streaming seamlessly into...
View ArticlePaid Apps Continue Their Decline
This piece originally appeared on TechCrunch Is it over for paid mobile apps? That’s the general thinking these days, as the App Stores fill up with “good enough” alternatives to paid apps, while...
View ArticleOakley Looks to the Niche with Airwave
Google has been able to generate an enormous amount of buzz with its Glass project but when you leave our little tech-world bubble and speak with normal humans you find that most people have no idea...
View ArticleLG and Samsung Releasing Curved Smartphones This Year
LG and Samsung are both locked in a perpetual fight to differentiate their smartphones not only from each other, but also from the Apple-shaped elephant in the room. Ever in search of a leg-up on the...
View ArticleThe Next Generation of Haptic Feedback
Haptic feedback used to be as simple as a vibrating motor buried deep in your devices case. It was entirely bipolar – either on or off – and not too sophisticated. But that world is long gone now, and...
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