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.
After Apple introduced the 12.9-inch iPad Pro tablet, it prompted other manufacturers to expand their horizons (read: display), and one of them is Sharp. He prepared the Aquos Famiredo tablet with an even larger, already massive 15.6-inch screen with a resolution of 1366 x 768 pixels. Therefore, it is not a mistake when you will find it on the shelves among tablets, and not among TVs, and among tablets, and not among laptops. Its hardware can compete with a relatively powerful laptop.
Win or Snooze is a Slovenian application that will make the mornings when the alarm clock wakes us up more pleasant. Tadej Štrok, Žiga Aljaž, Neven Cvijanović, Jure Lajlar and Sašo Pompe are behind the project, which will turn your morning awakening into a game. If you like the idea and would like to get rid of the problems of getting up in the morning, support the project on Kickstarter, where the team is raising funds for further development.
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.
With the Lenovo Vibe Shot smartphone, we witnessed a small step for the manufacturer, but a big one for the user, because the time came when the line between smartphone and digital camera was finally blurred. Now you get the best of both worlds, a camera with professional functions and an extremely powerful mobile phone that is only 7.6 millimeters thick. Nevertheless, it has a battery with a capacity of 3000 mAh, which guarantees up to 30 hours of talk time.
Most of us use our smartphone a lot every day, but only a few of us know how much time we actually use it. The Instant app gives you insight into exactly this information and much more. It's available for iOS and Android devices and provides you with a number of statistics, from how many hours you've spent on your phone in total to how much time you spent on each app. Be prepared for a shock! Sending messages, visiting Twitter, Facebook, etc., looking at the time, all of these add up to a huge amount of time. But how much really?
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.
Wind farms that convert the kinetic energy of the wind into other types of energy are great. But modern windmills are unfortunately still quite large. The Trinity, however, is different, as it folds into a small cylinder. It is a portable wind turbine with three blades (hence the name) that can be used even with the smallest wind (the wind must blow at a speed of at least 6.4 km/h). It is waterproof and has a battery that can store energy. It comes in different sizes, from the kind you can put in your pocket, to the kind you can put on the roof of your motorhome or in your front garden.
We all know the cries of "phone, phone" when someone pushes us clothed into the water. We all probably took the "first aid course" "How to save a mobile phone if it falls into water" precisely for this reason and because of similar cases. Now you can forget about such worries and live in the moment, as we present Comet, a smartphone that is not only waterproof, but also the first smartphone that floats on water.
Slovenia is a paradise for hikers and cyclists. Its picturesqueness offers something for everyone and, despite its small size, it is criss-crossed with thousands of trails that highlight its beauty. You know many of them, but despite your belief to the contrary, many of them you don't. But this can quickly change with the new free mobile application Hiking and Biking in Slovenia by Slovenian programmers, which is the result of cooperation between the economic interest association GIZ Hiking & Cycling and the Slovenian Tourist Board.
Kickstarter is an online platform where various products and projects of budding creators collect public funds by convincing investors to provide them with funds to start a business. And since there is no recession for ideas even in Slovenia, quite a few brave and optimistic Slovenian individuals or teams went to Kickstarter with their projects. Some were more, others less successful, but this did not stop their business journey. This time, we present the most popular Slovenian projects on Kickstarter, which gained enough supporters and funds to start successful production.