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The Accidental Athlete
The Moves app tracks your walking, running, cycling and driving — all the time. I own a Fitbit, but I rarely use it. When I go out for a run (don’t laugh, it happens), I have instead been using the...
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Mailbox Stops the Email Bleeding
Mailbox makes archiving easy: Just swipe on a message header. The green bar and checkmark appears. Release to archive. To delete, swipe farther. I have replaced the default email client on my iPhone...
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Hold the Line
I was lucky. A week after I got in the line for Mailbox, it was 800,000 people long.Want to try Mailbox, the hot email app for the iPhone? As you probably know by now, you’ll need to get in line. The...
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A new tactic in the stuff storage wars: Granularity
First there was the basement. And then we moved into homes with no basements. Then came the storage facility. But they’re inconvenient. So someone came up with storage pods — the storage facility that...
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How Will the Small Sensor Business Grow Big?
The CubeSensor will tell you how sick your office is. At the Launch festival last week, Ales Spetic presented an interesting hardware play: The CubeSensor. It’s a small, wireless air quality sensor...
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Controlling the Human Pixel, with Light and Sound
The BlinkFX Wink is a light-up wristband for large audiences. Bluetooth, WiFi and cellular data may be nearly ubiquitous, but there are interesting edge cases where none of these channels will get the...
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The 3D Revolution Will Be Digitized
Lynx CEO Chris Slaughter shows off the Lynx A digitizing camera. A stereo camera is on the other side of the slate. While the 3D printing revolution is clearly underway, really it has barely started....
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Outbox un-delivers your mail
Outbox collects your paper mail and puts it online for you. I have seen some crazy startups that try to bring paper mail into the modern, digital era. My longtime favorite is Earth Class Mail, which I...
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Talk about an Opportunity: The Evernote Accelerator
Last year, I left the mainstream tech press to come work at Evernote. Not just because I love this product (which I do), but because I wanted to do more for startups then I could ever do as a writer,...
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Hackbright: Women Can Code
Hackbright teaches coding to women. Some people are born hackers. They’re drawn to computers, take up coding as soon as they learn to read, and they never stop programming, learning, and developing...
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