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.
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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.
The love for turntables just doesn't go away and the sale of gramophone records or. vinyl has been on the rise in recent years. The musical medium from which music is extracted by a needle has become a concept of nostalgia and with the Rocket and Wind product, a walkman for vinyl records or with the Rawman 3000 portable turntable, it will only flare up even more, as it combines the good old Walkman/Diskman format and the most romantic sound carrier.
Two sizes, three designs and tons of personalization. This is the second generation of Motorola's Moto 360 smart watch. If you didn't have a design choice with the original model, the successor "corrects" that. There are classic versions such as men's (screen diameter 42 and 46 mm) and women's (42 mm) watches, as well as the Moto 360 sport, which is created for sports activities and is accordingly secured with materials that can cope with such conditions (e.g. a strap made of silicone). All of them are waterproof and equipped with a heart rate monitor.
Imagine a trackpad that's more than that. Which is also a tablet, keyboard, piano and electronic drum. And imagine it being so sensitive to touch that you could draw on it with a brush, a real brush, which would turn his strokes into digital art. It sounds a little too utopian, but that's exactly what the Sensel Morph promises, a versatile scrolling pad that can transform into just about any input device you can imagine.
The two biggest problems during video calls are lighting and field of view. The light may be ideal, but it doesn't help you if all you can see is your friend's chin. Because these small problems, which are so typical of video communication, got on the nerves of the team from the Swedish company Frankly, they created the ViW attachment. ViW boasts a dual lens and provides a 50% wider field of view than conventional webcams. It does this without distorting or "distorting" the image in any way.
And you thought keyboards couldn't look sexy?! The company LG Electronics, which, among other things, manufactures excellent peripheral units for computers, has produced a foldable portable keyboard compatible with various operating systems (Android, iOS, Windows Phone), which is exactly that. Folding mobile keyboards are nothing new, but the LG Rolly Keyboard is a different story altogether. Although it is made of silicone, it does not look "artificial" and although it offers a whole set of keys with a relatively high structure, it measures only 25 centimeters.
For the tech-savvy cyclist, there are a number of smart bikes. Unfortunately, not all of them justify the high price, especially when you have a perfectly good bike at home. Fortunately, there is an upgrade that turns such "ordinary" wheels into a SmartHalo device. Based on simplicity and ease of use, Cyclelabs' circular device combines navigation, an alarm system, a bike light and much more.
Lovense, the maker of erotic toys for long-distance relationships (because the only recipe for them is sex), with the smart vibrator Bluch Vibe, which can be controlled via a dedicated app on the iPhone smartphone and Apple Watch smartwatch, is on the crowdfunding platform Indiegogo in instant success. The authors emphasized not only the fact that it can be used without hands, but that it can vibrate to the rhythm of the selected music or sounds from the surroundings.