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The week’s top hardware news.
January 27th, 2016.
Products
Like FitBit for Food
This product is for those cooks whocantake advice in their own kitchen. It’s the “world’s first smart cooking pan,” the $200SmartyPans. What can it do? It measures weight, temperature and ingredients, integrates with nutrition and fitness apps and guides you through the cooking process.
+ anIoT end-to-end platformthat looks promising
Concrete with a Copper Twist
Our design treat of the week is a bluetooth speaker byHult Design.Pavilionfeatures a high density concrete base, a copper spiral bass port and an oak top with touch control. This mix of materials not only looks awesomely industrial-cool, but prevents sound distortions and boosts the bass frequencies.
iPhone Repurposing
Olmoseknows we can’t get ourselves to throw away that cracked iPhone, and it’s giving us a good reason to keep it. They’ve created a smart security system that relays on our out-of-use smartphone to make recordings and send notifications to our in-use one.
+ ahome batteryto go with it
Intelligent Stroller
Would you trust your baby with a self-propelled stroller? With theSmartbe, they’ve taken every comfort and security feature of a high-end baby stroller, and made it electrical. Looks like a rocket on wheels for infants, selling for $3199 on Indiegogo.
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GoPro Teams Up with Periscope
Thingswere looking badfor GoPro last week, but now they’re hoping to attract the livestreaming crowd byjoining forces with Periscope. GoPro cameras are popular picks both for extreme sports and drone footage, so we might enjoy a more exciting Twitter feed thanks to this hookup.
Blue Origin Lands a Rocket. Again
Space is getting really busy with rockets flying to and fro both fromSpace XandBlue Origin. The latter established a new record last week, managing tosuccessfully launch and landthesamerocket that was used in November. “You can’t get [to space] by throwing the hardware away,”said Bezos(most probably in Elon Musk’s direction).
+ meanwhile, Elon Muskmisses a landing, butgets the Hyperloop going
The Sequel: 3D Printed Guns
The controversy around 3D printed weapons fired up again, due to atabloid rumorthat bad boy Cody Wilson fromDefense Distributedwas ready to release the plans for a 3D printable AR-15 semi-automatic rifle. While the debate is stirring,TechCrunch arguesthat Wilson’s files are not of an actual gun anyway.Awkwarrd.
+ new perspectives on3D printing for the masses
VR Film Made from Within
Oculus amazes again, this time with a program that enables animators to move around illustrations as they’re being drawn.
