Fret Friend: Play by Numbers Guitar Picking on Kickstarter
Yeah, I took up guitar when I was about 12 and could kind of strum my way through “Leaving on a Jet Plane.” I left …
LegalTech 2016: Lawyers Meet IT, Fun Ensues
The last time I was at LegalTech, there was still a healthy business digitizing paper documents. At the event I just attended, legal IT has …
Quadrofoil Ramps Up Production
Happy 2016! My usual excuse for not blogging more frequently on TvB is that I’ve been busy on my other show. That’s still holds true …
Teleport: Virtual Nostalgia Project on Indiegogo
Does anyone remember the Mad Men episode where Don tells the visiting execs what the Kodak Carousel was all about? The Carousel was the height …
Itero: Pocket Watch Launches on Kickstarter
Itero disrupts the wearables industry with a notification-free gadget that’s purpose-built to continually show the time of day. Their display unit is based on light …
U-Gym: Muscle Stimulator on Indiegogo
Our friend Mark Yu, co-founder of AirSig, has another project he’s introducing. His U-Gym mid-frequency electric stimulator is now starting an Indiegogo campaign. How do …
Geeky Brands at geetgeeked NYC
An announcement for getgeeked landed in our email box the other day. Unlike other geeky events, this one emphasizes physical gadgetry — audio, toy robots, …
Brief Tour of Advertising Week 2015: Product Tribes and Thingification
I dropped in on Advertising Week’s big event last week to see what this latest generation of Don and Peggy types were up to. Unlike …
Spare Change App Feeds NYers
Yikes, I haven’t posted since half-past August! I’ve been busy over at my other show writing about, among other topics, threats to our personal data …
Lima: Secure Personal Cloud At Last
I’ve been busy over at my other show exploring insider data theft and IT sabotage. Thankfully my long awaited beta version of Lima showed up in …
Buddy: Family-Friendly Robot Launches on Indiegogo
As we all read one headline after another warning of the robot takeover of our jobs, I’ve discovered a more serious source of concern for …
Dandelion APIs For Your Knowledge Parsing Needs
Somewhere on my Internet journeys, I learned about Dandelion. It’s a platform for doing semantic analysis of text. Another words, software that has some reading …
SipSup: Photo Sharing Drinking Glass on Kickstarter
My blogging has been on vacation the last few weeks. I was away on holiday in southern Spain—biking the Andalusian countryside—and then after returning I …
TechCrunch Disrupt NY 2015
I admit to spending little time at this year’s Disrupt, which was in town last week. It’s still a great event for startups that want …
Autonomous Desk: An AI-Powered Desk on Kickstarter
Remember Robotbase, the group behind an autonomous mobile personal robot? I wrote about their scarily smart bot back in January. Anyway, Robotbase now calls itself …
SipaBoard: Slovenian Stand Up Paddle Board (SUP) Kickstarter Project
We’re starting to see a pattern. Another email from a Slovenian engineer, another project having do with hi-tech nautical-ware. This time our engineer, Sebastjan Sitar, …
Spring Fever, Kerberos, and TechCrunch Disrupt
I’ve been busy over at my other show these days so blogging at TvB has been put on a long hold. Part of my time over …
Quip: Cute Collaboration Software
After working in Microsoft-controlled environments for years and years, I’m painfully familiar with Redmond’s idea of collaborating. Write document, email Word document to co-workers, remember …
My Interview With the Privacy Guru
Blogging has been a little light at TvB because of my other show. Lately I’ve been delving into the security improvements slated for Windows 10—who …
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 …