The supremacy of beer as America’s alcoholic drink of choice still stands–it accounts for close to 50% of all boozy…
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Wine sales in the U.S. topped $38 billion in 2015, increasing 1.3 percent from the year before. As Americans turn…
Bagel is a reinvented, smart tape measure, complete with a companion smartphone app, that enables you to make pinpoint measurements, save…
The typical handgun, like the combustion engine that still runs in most cars, hasn’t evolved much in the last 100…
I feel like 90% of my day consists of reminding my kids to clean up, get their pajamas on, brush their…
Fitness trackers are one of the hottest things out there. While helpful though, when it comes to calories, they often…
It turns out you don’t need a firearm and a mean mug to protect your turf. Robert Bond, a Systems…
As a cyclist, you often don’t (safely) have the luxury of turn by turn directions at a glance. While there are GPS…
These ridiculous crowdfunding campaigns are the most inexplicably successful of 2016 – and some of the worst business ideas. The year is only half over, but it’s already one for the record books.
I like to refer to the 1980’s as “the good ol’ days”. Our computers were enormous, our action heroes weren’t…
I am an animal lover, but I barely understand the cat thing; lazy tumbleweeds that act like snooty royalty and…
Imagine losing weight without having to do anything new. Thanks to science it’s not as crazy as it sounds. One…
What if you could throw on a comfortable hoodie and have your favorite music streamed directly through the sweatshirt? No…
Talk to Robert Stromberg and Guy Primus, two of the co-founders of the Virtual Reality Company, and you get a vision…
Performing real-time language translation, Waverly Labs calls their innovative Pilot earbuds “The World’s First Smart Earpiece.” They work by “hearing” what one wearer says, translating it via their connected app, and then broadcasting the translated text to the listener. Some kinks remain, but their funding on Indiegogo indicates there is a lot of interest in tech for real-time translation.
If you didn’t think you needed a smart umbrella, you haven’t seen the Oombrella. Using Bluetooth, crowdsourcing and a connected app, this handy device will alert you of incoming weather conditions, remind you when you’ve left it behind, and can even notify you of incoming calls or alerts.
When it comes to crowdfunding, Keezel knows a thing or two (pronounced, “KEY-sul”, from, “kiezel” or “Kiesel” ” the word for…
Mirrors are a great way to enhance any room, plus they’re also essential for taking selfies at home and in…
Knocki is a smart device that sends texts, turns on TVs, dims lights, and all kinds of other things, with a simple knock on any surface. Like the old-school Clapper, you can knock to activate, but, unlike the Clapper, it promises to be reliable and flexible, connecting with many other smart devices to make the smart home a reality.
The 3Dvarius is an electric violin that just happens to be transparent, created with 3D printing, and based on a Stradivarius. For another few days, you can back it on Kickstarter.