Chinese Huawei, Chinese Vogue and the famous designer Barnaba Fornasetti have prepared a special edition of a smart watch, which is a "sticker" of art, smart technology and design, on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the Chinese version of the aforementioned magazine. The dial of the watch is decorated with Fornasetti's motif "Tema e Variazioni", countless variations of the face of Lina Cavalieri, while at the same time the watch offers connectivity anywhere, notification of calls, messages and e-mails.
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Just when we thought we had seen everything on the topic of selfies, the news that there is a new campaign on Kickstarter - donate your euro for a dog selfie or Pooch Selfie came out of the blue.
The Slovenian project Koto started its campaign on the crowdfunding portal Indiegogo a few days ago. It is an upgrade of the existing CubeSensors smart sensors, and they took the new name because they want to expand their product line and at the same time they don't want to limit themselves to the cube shape. Koto is the old Finnish word for home, and it seems that you couldn't think of a more appropriate name for the sensors that take care of a healthy home.
Judging by the number of participants at this year's Oculus Connect VR 2 virtual reality conference, we are moving into virtual reality in 2016. Reality is really too cruel sometimes! Samsung also brought its virtual reality player to the conference, presenting the latest version of the Samsung Gear VR glasses, which are now compatible with more smartphones, including the still warm Galaxy S6 edge+, S6 and S6 edge. The prototype you are looking at is the final version and will be available to customers later this year. Across the pond in November, and shortly after that it will also splash in our vicinity.
Pebble, which nearly took down Kickstarter half a year ago after setting a new record for the crowdfunding portal by raising $1 million in just 30 minutes, is now presenting its first round watch. Although he seems to have no problem convincing customers, now he is also targeting skeptics (read nostalgics) who swear by classic wristwatches with all his guns. If you squint at the offer, it doesn't take long to realize that there is a circular trend. Nevertheless, the first smartwatches were square. But even such popular smart watches as Pebble had to resort to "grandmother's" advice.
Dott is a smart dog pendant with which your dog will never really get lost. Did you know that over 10 million pets are lost every year, that everyone gets lost at least once in their life and that only 10 percent of them are found. That's why it's high time to replace your dog's usual dog pendant that hangs on the dog's collar with the smart Dott pendant. At the same time, this is a Bluetooth tracker with which you always know where your dog is.
You're just going out, you're in a hurry, you grab your phone, but its red light is flashing. Dead battery again! A situation that is all too familiar. The phone usually lets us down just when we need it the most. Five minutes of charging will not help you much, as you will only have 1 percent more battery capacity. Charge the Power Practical Proto 12 Portable Charger for those same 300 seconds and you'll have enough power to top up your phone on the go. Give it a watch, and you'll be able to charge up to nine times without electricity on the way.
With all the amazing things a bike-friendly city has to offer, sometimes the hardest part is finding your bike, drowning somewhere in the sea of other bikes. FROLIC Studio wants to solve this problem, so they created the Pingbell bike bell that helps us find our bike. A completely normal bell at first glance, it hides some smart technology that helps in locating the bike. Pingbell is currently raising funds on Kickstarter.
Apple's big 2015 event held in California on September 9 revealed their latest batch of hardware updates, including new versions of the iPhone 6 — the iPhone 6s and the larger iPhone 6s Plus — as well as the Apple Watch, the watch that spawned in collaboration with luxury fashion brand Hermès and reinforces Apple's desire to position its smartwatch as a luxury product rather than a utility. They also unveiled a larger version of their tablet called the iPad Pro, which they described as "the most capable and powerful iPad they've ever created." The only completely new product that will not be found among Apple's technological toys since the early 1990s is the digital pen Apple Pencil. This is made for use with the larger iPad and aimed at professional artists and designers. It will enable new precision in drawing and writing on the iPad, which will respond to different forms of pressure as well as different angles.
It's amazing how we go to foreign places, see tourist locations, natural and cultural attractions, happily take photos, and return home with the same shots as thousands of other tourists, with the same photos that we find tons of on Google. We all photograph the same scenes, from the same place (herd instinct?), which is precisely why they lose their originality, because someone else could easily have taken it and you wouldn't even notice it. Philip Schmitt's Camera Restrict therefore prevents you from taking the same shots as everyone else.
Back to the roots. That's the message the To-Do watch, which isn't it, is sending to the world through a Kickstarter campaign. Although its shape completely imitates a wristwatch, its "dial" is actually just a surface where you can write down important things with the help of a liquid chalk marker. Things you have to do, but you can just satisfy your creativity and draw something on it. In the age of smart watches and phones, writing things down seems easier than ever, but technology cannot always be relied on, and a sheet of paper is not always at hand. That's why To-Do is an ideal tool even in the 21st century.
Scoutee is a Slovenian baseball speedometer, which recently started its Kickstarter company, with which it wants to raise 50 thousand US dollars to start production. The start is encouraging, but the ball is round, as they say, so the team must not chill the champagne yet. It is a radar device that measures the speed of the ball used in baseball (it is expected to measure other types of balls in the future), and their target group in the first phase is aspiring baseball players as well as coaches.