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Car Buying Startup Tred Hits the Road
I first saw Grant Feek, Tred’s CEO, present his idea for an on-line auto buying startup at General Assembly’s Demo Night last month. The breakthrough concept, from what I could tell at the time, was that customers could configure their … Continue reading
Best Piece I Read on PIPA/SOPA
This morning legislative leaders in both House and Senate announced they would be postponing votes on their respective anti-piracy acts. There’s little doubt that some kind of online copyright infringement rules will emerge again, but not in the form they … Continue reading
EachScape Does Mobile App Generation Right
With Startup Weekend NYC Mobile rolling into town this weekend, I took advantage of a free demo from one of this event’s sponsors. Yesterday EachScape’s CEO Ludovic Collin proved to a room of coders, business types, and at least one … Continue reading
3D Standard Announcement at CES
We have one eye scanning news coming out of the Consumer Electronics Show underway in Las Vegas. And with 3D on our minds lately–see last few posts–we were preconditioned to be receptive to this latest announcement from Samsung, Panasonic, Sony … Continue reading
NYC at Center of 3D Printing and Craft Manufacturing
Last night within Google’s cavernous 8th Avenue offices, NY Technology Council assembled a few startups at an event to showcase “cutting-edge technology.” Since this was at their home base in Manhattan, Google project managers were on hand to present as … Continue reading
3rd Planet Launches 3D Travel to Katmandu
There’s no dearth of travel web sites on the Web. And 3D renderings of complex environments are commonplace in gaming environments. But putting the two together? That’s almost unique. 3rd Planet, has been teasing us with this prospect since they … Continue reading
Marketing Earthquakes: Nature Provides the Clue to Mega-Hits
In a different era, you would have learned about Didier Sornette’s work as a physicist by perusing the pages of selected academic journals. Sornette was trained as a geophysicist, and has had academic appointments at both French and US universities. … Continue reading
New for 2012: TEG-powered Cat Warmer
Happy New Year! Before they left on vacation, our award-winning research staff was tasked to come up with an under-the-radar technology that will reshape our lives this year. They have risen to the challenge and informed me of the breath-taking … Continue reading
Happy Season of LED Light
I spotted this video too late, but in case you need additional seasonal lighting, consider this low-risk, high-brightness LED light project. All that’s required are spare Citronella tea candles, 3V Lithium batteries, a screwdriver, and a pen knife (or long … Continue reading
NYU ITP Winter Show: Virtual Virtuousity
Even the iconic Wooden Mirror had gone completely virtual. Maybe it was me, but this wintry NYU ITP show seemed to be less physically endowed than this school’s last public event held in the Spring. There were fewer spinning gears … Continue reading
















