This past week was a blur for anyone who attended this year’s Consumer Electronic Show (CES) in Las Vegas. CES means lots of oxygen-infused hotel lobbies, jostling crowds, gadgets galore and late nights rubbing shoulders with folks in the vast electronics industry that now encompasses, well, everything. If you attended this year as a CES virgin you…
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There were already a number of tablet options out in the marketplace when Sony entered the market with the Sony Table S earlier this year. Focused on creating a compelling device that would attract new users to the tablet market, the team at Sony looked to offer a superior Android experience with better design, performance…
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Coming to CES this week are Cubelets, small multicolor cubes you can snap together to create robots that move, chirp, and light up. Cubelets come with different programming, and what they do depends on how they’re combined. “Action” blocks include Drive (with wheels), Flashlight, and Speaker (which chirps). “Sense” blocks respond to environmental factors like…
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With the devotion and obsession directed at Steve Jobs, both when he was alive and after his death in October, when it reached a fever pitch, it was inevitable that someone somewhere would create a Steve Jobs action figure. That someone is a company called Inicons, which is offering a super realistic 12-inch tall action…
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As society increasingly replaces face-to-face communication with social media, e-mails, and text messages, it’s plausible to assume that we’ll begin to lose our ability to pick up on non-verbal cues (i.e. gesturing and facial expressions). After all, if you don’t use it, you lose it. The prospect of our EQ (emotional intelligence) taking a blow at…
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As we enter in the final feeding frenzy of holiday shopping before Hannukah and Christmas next week, we thought we’d put together a holiday gift guide of our favorite tech gadgets in case you’re feeling stuck on what to buy the geeks in your life. Happy shopping! Frank Gruber, CEO & Founder: When my Macbook…
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Just in time for the holiday buffet tables and New Year’s resolutions, a new weight-loss robot named Autom has hit the market. This cute, lifelike machine looks at you, talks to you, and even blinks “her” blue eyes at you. Autom is designed to have a 3- to 5-minute conversation with you every day, where…
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If you’re the type of person that’s always on-the-go, the new Powerbag Messenger by Ful is right up your alley. The lightweight bag allows you to charge your smartphone, iPod, tablet or any other of your mobile devices when an outlet isn’t handy. The secret is the bag’s removable battery inside that can be charged…
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London-based product development startup BERG introduced the Little Printer today, a new product that takes your digital news, puzzles and updates from friends and prints them out with a smile. It is definitely a step in the retro direction – the device prints those mini updates on what resembles cash register receipt paper. Little Printer…
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Love to tinker? Well the MIT grads at Supermechanical have a new toy for you. It’s called Twine, and it promises to connect anything to the web without a “nerd degree.” A 2.5″ square pizza-box shaped device, Twine reads from a bunch of sensors and then sends tweets or texts to alert you when those…
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Tired of turning pages in orchestra, I used my eighth grade science project to invent a mechanical page turner – a clumsy contraption that let you turn pages by quickly pulling a nob attached to them with string. But it appears my masterpiece was doomed to obsolescence, given the advent of the iPad. From the…
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A few weeks ago, Samsung gave me a Galaxy S II SGH-T989 phone from T-Mobile to test out. I have been an Android fan for a while. My previous phone was a Google Nexus One (made by HTC), which I liked except that the space for apps is limited. Here are my first impressions of…
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Looking to spice up your iPhone’s protective unit? If you are like me, you currently have a huge Tech Cocktail sticker on the back of your black plastic case (you do, right?), but wouldn’t it be fun to have a little more flair? Look no further than Casetagram as it offers an online tool that…
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If you are looking for way to navigate around your city, you might want to check out the New York-based startup FlyKly. FlyKly offers a electric bicycle in two models: the sleek, forward-thinking Modern (shown here and above left) or the rugged, classical feel of the Vintage (shown here and above right). Both come at…
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Green technology is making consumer appliances cool again: yesterday, former Apple iPod SVP Tony Fadell unveiled a smart thermostat called Nest. “We [are excited] to reinvent such an important yet unloved device that would make people’s lives easier and hopefully, make the world a little better too,” blogged Fadell, who left Apple in March 2010. He…
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Google just pulled the curtain off Android 4.0, or Ice Cream Sandwich, at a Hong Kong event Wednesday morning. The operating system will run on the new Samsung Galaxy Nexus phone, to be released in November. Designed to work on phones and tablets, Ice Cream Sandwich has too many new features to mention, including easier…
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There are a number of startup accelerator and incubator programs in the United States. We are fans of these programs (not to be confused with... Read More
Two months after the iPad 2 debuted in March, around 40% of users surveyed said their iPad was their primary computer, up from around 30%... Read More
With our Startup Mixology Conference coming up next week followed by our classic Tech Cocktail DC Summer mixer which will showcase a handful of early-stage... Read More
Coming off of one of our biggest Tech Cocktail mixer events in Chicago this past week, which showcased 14 early-stage start-ups, we thought it would... Read More