Posts Tagged ‘standard’
Take that, old UK electrical plug
I’m not an electrician, nor do I play one on TV, but this I like.
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Take that, old UK electrical plug
The Zixen Diver: Huh.
I had never heard of Zixen before today [Warning: Loud crazy Flash animation ahead] but they’re doing some wonderful divers with a amazing vintage look.
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The Zixen Diver: Huh.
Aspiral Clock makes telling time a ball
Most concept clocks are high on art, and low on functionality. That’s not the case with the Aspiral Clock, designed by Will Aspinall and Neil Lambath.
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Aspiral Clock makes telling time a ball
Video Demo: Google Reader Play is clearly meant for a tablet computer
We all know that there will be an onslaught of touchscreen computers this year and next. But the Internet really isn’t touchscreen friendly. It was designed for a mouse, not finger input.
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Video Demo: Google Reader Play is clearly meant for a tablet computer
Disney turns its Monorail into huge Tron light cycles
Tron Legacy is nerds wet dream come true. The movie will hopefully invoke the same sort of futuristic imagination as the original. You’ve watched the trailer , right
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Disney turns its Monorail into huge Tron light cycles
Acer announces their new K11 Pico-projector
Lots of news coming out of CeBIT this year, including the latest projector from Acer, the K11. The K11 is a pico projector, so it’s the latest in the current crop of smaller display options. Measuring a mere 122 x 116mm, it’s ideal to stuff in your laptop case to take to that next meeting.
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Acer announces their new K11 Pico-projector
HyBrid enclosure to hold SSD and standard drives
Raidon showed off their new HyBrid drive enclosure recently, a strange combination of an SSD drive enclosure and a SATA enclosure.
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HyBrid enclosure to hold SSD and standard drives
Quick Look: Kempler & Strauss W Phone Watch
Do you dream of jet boots and ninjas from space? Sure, we all do. Well, the future just arrived in my mailbox, friends, and it’s the Kempler & Strauss W Phone Watch, an unlocked GSM phone inside a watch. Is it amazing, you ask? Does it come with a jet pack, you ask? The answers are “Yes” and “No.”
The phone is about as big as a Garmin GPS watch and has a touchscreen and small camera. I’m going to wear this thing for a few days and report back on how it feels to wear the entire world on your wrist but this far it seems to work fine. The screen is amazingly hard to type on without a little stylus, but it’s fun to try. Interestingly, you can even make and take calls without a headset.
How much does it cost? $199, friends, and it’s available for pre-order now. While it will never replace the standard phone, it’s nice to be able to tell people to talk to the hand. Or talk to the wrist. Or whatever.
Click through for a video Quick Look. Look for a review next week.
The Venture Hacks StartupList Helps Fledgling Startups Pitch Top Angel Investors
If you’re a startup looking for some early angel investments, you probably have a list of people you’d love to work with mapped out in your mind. Unfortunately, there’s also a good chance that you have absolutely no idea how to get their attention and pitch them. Today Venture Hacks is launching a new project that may help with that. Dubbed StartupList, Venture Hacks will start sending a weekly Email digest featuring three startup pitches that will get Emailed to some of Silicon Valley’s most respected angel investors. Venture Hacks founder Babak Nivi likens it to a DailyCandy for startups.
The project is a followup to the Venture Hacks AngelList, which launched yesterday. AngelList is a basic directory of over 80 established angel investors, including their all-important contact info (or, at least, the best people to get a reference through), what the investor looks for in a startup, and other key information. These members of the AngelList will all be receiving the weekly StartupList, which obviously makes it a huge boon to any startups that land a spot on the list.
Nivi says that the system is already working — after an initial release on Twitter they’ve had nine angel investors ask for intros to the startups, including David Cohen (Techstars), Mike Hirshland (Polaris), and WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg.
To get on the list, you’ll have to apply through this site. Your pitch will be judged by the two members of the Venture Hacks team (Nivi and Naval), who will be looking for traction, ’social proof’, and a solid team (though you don’t necessarily have to be excelling in all three areas). Your elevator pitch will have to be kept to around 150 words, and you need to have a minimum viable product (as defined by the Venture Hacks guys).