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Snooperscope iPhone night vision lens

Posted on December 7, 2013December 26, 2013 by timbatchelder

Hunt ghosts with Snooperscope smartphone night vision lens
by Tim Hornyak, cnet.com

This magnetic device lets you act like a creepy spy, observe nocturnal wildlife, or see Kinect infrared dots.

Maybe you want to check out whatever it was that just went bump in the night. Or maybe you just want to see things in the dark. Here’…

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Turn your smartphone into night vision goggles with Snooperscope (mnn.com)
Snooperscope: Night Vision for Your Smartphone (freshnessmag.com)
Take that selfie in the dark! Night vision is coming to smartphones (digitaltrends.com)

Rubbee turns any bike into an electric one in seconds

Posted on August 26, 2013August 29, 2013 by timbatchelder

Rubbee turns any bike into an electric one in seconds | Crave – CNET.

Rubbee Turns Any Bike into an Electric Bike (technabob.com)
Rubbee turns any bike electric (gizmag.com)
Turn Any Bike Into An Electric Bike, No Installation Necessary (popsci.com)
Ride Easier With The Rubbee Easy Electric Bike Conversion Gadget On Kickstarter (techcrunch.com)

With Tech From Space, Ministry Of Supply Is Rethinking the Dress Shirt

Posted on August 17, 2013August 20, 2013 by timbatchelder

(via With Tech From Space, Ministry Of Supply Is… | TimBatchelder.

With Tech From Space, Ministry Of Supply Is Rethinking the Dress Shirt (timbatchelder.com)
I Wore These Socks For A Week And They Don’t Smell (forbes.com)
Coffee-Infused Socks Don’t Smell (huffingtonpost.com)

Bulletproof conference: biohack your life

Posted on May 19, 2013June 11, 2013 by timbatchelder

(via Bulletproof Conference — Biohack Your Life)

guardian tecnologia: Kickstarter must not fund biohackers’ glow-in-the-dark plants | Martin Lukacs (guardian.co.uk)
Biohacking (wewanttolearn.wordpress.com)
Make Yourself Bulletproof (exohuman.com)

Melon: a headband that measures your mental focus

Posted on May 18, 2013July 2, 2013 by timbatchelder

Kickstarting: A Headband That Measures Your Mental Focus
By Kyle VanHemert, fastcodesign.com

Melon explores an interesting new frontier of the quantified self: your noggin’.

Does checking Twitter during the workday really leave you scatterbrained? Could taking up meditation help you tune out the noise and focus better? Melon…

Kickstarting: A Headband That Measures Your Mental Focus http://flip.it/U0krf http://flip.it/gIAB5

Kickstarting: A Headband That Measures Your Mental Focus (fastcodesign.com)
Can’t Focus? Melon EEG Headband Gets Inside Your Head to Help You Concentrate (technabob.com)
Gain Focus With The Melon Headband (gadgetreview.com)
Mind-Reading Headbands – The ‘Melon’ Headband Measures Your Focus to Make You More Productive (TrendHunter.com) (trendhunter.com)
Melon focus headband turns to Kickstarter for rollout plans (medicalxpress.com)
The Melon Headband Launches On Kickstarter To Track Your Brain Waves And Mental Focus (techcrunch.com)

TechShop: industrial revolution for $125 a month

Posted on April 28, 2013June 25, 2013 by timbatchelder

TechShop: an industrial revolution for $125 a month
Brian Heater, engadget.com

Someone, Mark Hatch, if I had to guess, has left a Square reader just to the left of where we’ve set up our cameras. It’s on a table next to a small, but exceptionally diverse array of gadgets. There’s a wooden book that unfolds into a des…

TechShop: an industrial revolution for $125 a month http://flip.it/EtUlj http://flip.it/rbJI5

TechShop CEO Mark Hatch on his Toshiba T1100 Plus and radio tech magic (engadget.com)
How 3D Printing Will Revolutionize E-Commerce (3dprintinginsider.com)
Learn To Make Unique Keepsakes At TechShop Exhibition (pittsburgh.cbslocal.com)
Opinionator | Fixes: It’s Not Just Nice to Share, It’s the Future (opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com)
JOBS bill / crowdfunding exemption signed into law today (makezine.com)
The Industrial Revolution Tour comes to a close (traceymaclean.wordpress.com)
MakerBot and Stratasys Announce Merger (makerbot.com)
What Is Industrial Revolution? (historyindustrialrevolution.wordpress.com)
8 Objects That Signal a New Industrial Revolution (gizmodo.com)
Homeless to hacker: How the Maker Movement changed one man’s life (venturebeat.com)

Startup Salaries and Equity: Angel list

Posted on April 16, 2013June 23, 2013 by timbatchelder

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Startup Salaries & Equity – AngelList http://flip.it/0UFrl http://flip.it/ctGJb

Startup Salaries & Equity

How to Bootstrap Your Startup (alleywatch.com)
How to Negotiate a Job Offer (upstart.com)

Shopify: finally ECommerce you can do from your couch

Posted on April 9, 2013June 21, 2013 by timbatchelder

Shopify Simplifies E-Commerce to Boost Crowdfunding Graduates
Tim Maly, wired.com

Say you finished your Kickstarter campaign for some product or other, and after the inevitable growing pains, you’ve gotten all the rewards out to your backers who are gleefully emailing you to say what a great thing it is that …

Shopify Simplifies E-Commerce to Boost Crowdfunding Graduates http://flip.it/gG1rP http://flip.it/HnfvD

Shopify marches into Southeast Asia with backing from SingTel (e27.co)
DIY E-Commerce Platform Shopify Launches In India (medianama.com)
Shopify officially enters Indian market with SingTel Partnership (nextbigwhat.com)
Compared: Shopify Vs Zepo Vs BuildaBazaar [Set up Your E-commerce Store] (nextbigwhat.com)
Why Your ECommerce Site Fails to Stand Out (business2community.com)
Crowdfunding Assault (zebragarden.me)
Use what you got (therealadam.com)

DIY traffic monitoring

Posted on March 27, 2013June 20, 2013 by timbatchelder

Take Traffic Into Your Own Hands With This DIY Car Counter
BY ZAK STONE, fastcoexist.com

The TrafficCom lets you measure how many cars drive on your street and figure out traffic patterns. And you can now get one via Kickstarter—just like the guys at NASA.

There’s something about the moment NASA places an order that gives any…

http://flip.it/Gy3Sm

NASA wants your help to save Earth from dangerous asteroids #NASAasteroid (prizesandchallenges.wordpress.com)
NASA makes billion-pixel Mars panorama out of photos captured by Curiosity (engadget.com)
NASA Asks for Help Finding Asteroids and Capturing One #NASAasteroid (prizesandchallenges.wordpress.com)

Record and observe 1 second of your life every day

Posted on February 22, 2013June 14, 2013 by timbatchelder

(via Cesar Kuriyama: One second every day | Video on TED.com)

One Second Every Day (swiss-miss.com)
Filming one second every day: Cesar Kuriyama at TED2012 (ted.com)
14 people who’ve time-lapsed their lives, filming one second a day (ted.com)
App helps you remember every day of life (wxyz.com)
Shanghai. One second video a day. 168 days. (nicksjourneys.wordpress.com)

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