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 …
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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 …
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 …
Interview with NYU’s Justin Cappos: Our Pathetic Password Protection
My interview is not here at TvB, but over on my other show at the Metadata Era. Professor Cappos is an Associate Professor of Computer …
More Advertisements for Myself: Authentication Ebook Explains it All
As tech editorial writers have informed us, this has been the year of the breach. I’m shocked! My go to source for breach stats is …
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 …
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. …
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 …
Gone Fishing
We’ll be closing up shop for a few weeks. See you in September.
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, …
Talent Garden: Send Your Startup to Italy
We just heard from our friends at Talent Garden, the Italian co-working network, about some interesting news. Let’s say you’re part of a US-based startup …
TvB’s Favorite Summer Travel Apps: Paris Edition
Right about now the blog takes a break from its usual duties– scouring the sprawling TvB contact network to find the next “yo”–to focus on …
CE Week 2014 Snapshot
I swooped into CE Week on Wednesday, and it was satisfying to see the show continue to evolve away from its A/V box roots. This …
The New Photojournalism: Brief Chat with Fresco’s John Meyer
Lord knows journalism needs help. Sure there’re promising green shoots: data-oriented journalism, the open data movement, and crowd-sourced reporting and analysis to name a few. …
Pop-up Coworking Space in Newark
Newark may have lost the Bears (and are still paying the debt on the stadium), but as one proverbial door closes, another one opens. Brick …
Tales From Startup Alley: Klappo and Big Food Data
My Startup Alley blogging is a little delayed this year. My apologies to those who are still interested in the TechCrunch Disrupt event from two …
Tales from Startup Alley: Kloudless and Cloud Security
I was in email correspondence with Kloudless CEO Elliot Sun yesterday after he announced the official launch of their APIs from the Battlefield stage. What …