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The week’s top hardware news.
March 4th, 2016.
Products
Kiddie STEM Kit
If these are the toys children play with these days, can’t help but wonder what rockets they’ll be building by 7th grade. Take $100 Tio,a STEM kit available on Kickstarter宽松的技术部分,特性(轮、滑轮、adaptors) to encourage mini makers to recycle their old teddy bears, plastic bottles and paper scraps and transform them into awesome smart toys.
The Charging Cable to Rule Them All
Could this really be? A cable that finally allows iOS and Android to happily charge together?LMcable is a 2-in-1 connectorthat works on both micro USB and lightning devices. Sounds too good to be true, but over4000 peeps on Kickstarterare convinced.
Cook Your Books
Here comes the kind of Sci-fi-esque magic we love to see:Rocketbook Waveis a notebook that not only blasts your notes into the cloud in perfect order, but —thanks to athermochromic ink, which becomes clear under heat—it can be totally erased. In the microwave. In the microwave!https://www.youtube.com/embed/Dmcf_F84BPY
行业
Hot Money is Running Towards AR
Things continue to steam up in the augmented reality corner. Followingthe massive $793 million raise from Magic Leaplast month, here are just a few recent headlines to help you get the picture:
- AR search engineBlippar closed a $54 million Series D
- French startupAugument raised more than $3 millionfrom Salesforce Ventures
- AR computer vision startupWrnch got $1.8M in Series Afunding
- AR helmet builderDaqriacquired 1066 Labs, a leading head-mounted display manufacturer
- hands-on withMeta 2augmented reality headset
Drones Beware!
As drone technology advances, anti-drone technology is right behind it. Some devices being developed will disrupt the targeted drone’s communications with sound waves. Others will use larger drones to capture small ones. But make way for the man with the bazooka!SkyWall 100 launches a ground-to-air projectileaimed at snatching drones out of mid-air. Boom headshot.https://www.youtube.com/embed/M6tT1GapCe4
Raspberry Pi 3 Adds WiFi & Bluetooth
Four years after Raspberry Pi came into the lives of tinkerers everywhere, the foundation announcedthe launch of their first 64-bit computing boardthat also comes with WiFi and Bluetooth built-in for the same $35.“Yes, this is a PC!”
+ no, it will nothalt and catch fire
Smart Mattress Cover Raises $6M
Eight(formerly Luna) has pulled in$6 million in seed fundingfor their smart, sleep tracking and home-controlling mattress cover. This is great, because from where we stand, the more we can do from bed, the better.
