4th Annual NYU Entrepreneurs Festival, 3/6 – 3/7
The “largest celebration of NYU startups, founder, and entrepreneurs” will be held at Tisch Hall and the Kaufman Management Center next month. This NYU-centric event …
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Brief Chat with Robotbase’s Duy Huynh
Last week I talked to Robotbase’s founder Duy Huynh about his impressively capable Personal Robot. I was mostly interested in real-world use cases for this …
Hack Jersey 2.0, March 28 – 29
Data journalists, coders, and designers will be re-convening for another edition of Hack Jersey. Teams will meet at Montclair State University’s Center for Cooperative Media. …
Trubrain: Nootropic Drink Startup
Nootropic is shorthand for mind or cognitive enhancing. Simple ideas always sound more mysterious when Greek-ified. Trubrain is an energy drink for the mind. But …
Pond5: Huge Source of Public Domain Pics and Videos
Another stock media service? Sure, but NYC-based startup Pond5 has a very large collection of free public domain photos and images. Some of this media can be found …
More Kickstarter Projects: Robotbase’s Personal AI-bot
Robotbase’s Personal Robot is the most ambitious project that I’ve seen so far on Kickstarter. If the pitch video of this mobile Siri-like bot is anywhere …
Unfinished App Business From 2014: LogoGarden, MommyMeds, and More
Going through old emails as part of my end of year clean-up activities, I came across a few companies that I didn’t have a chance …
Cynaps Mint: 3-D Printed Bone Conducting Audio Hardware
When last we left Max Virtual, they had started an Indiegogo campaign for their Cynaps bone conducting hearing helper. The technology amplifies voices and uses …
ITP Big Screens 2014
I haven’t been to this one before, but Big Screens is where NYU ITP students get to experiment with the enormous 120 x 11 foot …
Hacking the Universe with the Astronerds
I was glad I had some time in my schedule last weekend to stop by Hack the Universe at the American Museum of Natural History. …
Quadrofoil: Personal Electric Hydrofoil
We do get lots of unsolicited PR pieces from various companies pitching products. Normally, we move them into our junk folder. But last week a …
Virtual Hackathon Courtesy of Koding
Koding (formerly kodingen), is a terrific development environment that supports a thriving community of PHP, Ruby, Python and Node coders. I’ve used it for my …
Open Garden’s FireChat: Mesh Solution Finds a Problem
It seemed only yesterday –actually two years ago–that I shared a coffee with Open Garden’s dynamic co-founder Micha Benoliel. He had come close to getting …
Kazoup: UK-based File Analytics Startup
The last few weeks I’ve been focused on my other channel writing about the credit card industry’s gift to insomniacs, the Data Security Standard 3.0. …
bpmonline’s Cloud-Based CRM
Another gathering of Ukraine startups happened while I was on holiday in September. Like the last few times, these events are out in San Francisco–hey, …
Meanwhile Back at NYU: Cyber Security Contest and New Entreprenurial Center
I’m finally returning to my suburban hovel after an extended holiday earlier this month. September of course means back to school so it’s a good …
Foxconn Invests $2M in AirSig
We’re back! I’m still going through emails after our French jaunt– I will miss fresh Parisian baguettes, sigh–and will probably open up shop officially next …
Gone Fishing
We’ll be closing up shop for a few weeks. See you in September.
Omate: iWatch competition?
It’s late summer, I’ve been mostly focusing on a fast-approaching vacation, and on my other channel, I’ve been ringing the church bells over privacy issues …
Brief note on StarSnap: You Oughta Be in Pictures
A little summer fun comes by way of an iPhone app that finds close enough matches of your selfie amongst celebrity photos. By the way, …