Awesome Stuff: Health & Fitness
For this week's awesome stuff post, we're looking at three crowdfunding projects that could help people stay healthy. First up, the super impressive Scanadu Scout, what they refer to as a "medical...
View ArticleAwesome Stuff: Battery Power
As someone who often is working "on the go," I've built up my "office in a bag" over time, and one key element has always been making sure I've got power. That means I've always got a portable power...
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Awesome Stuff: Earbuds Are So Last Decade
If you're of a certain age, you'll remember what the headphones for the original walkmen looked like. Of course, nowadays they look pretty dated. How long will it be until today's earbuds face the...
View ArticleAwesome Stuff: Bring The Cloud Back Home
For a variety of reasons, I've been spending a fair bit of time contemplating and investigating "personal cloud" solutions. There are clear benefits to cloud computing, but there are downsides as...
View ArticleAwesome Stuff: Taming Unruly Cables
While wireless technologies are amazing, it still seems we're stuck with plenty of cables around all the time, from charging cables to headphones and more. Most people don't do much to organize them,...
View ArticleAwesome Stuff: Multi-Tool Time
For this week's awesome stuff post, we decided to look at some multi-tool offerings. There are actually a lot of multi-tool crowdfunding projects out there, with a bunch of them just being a single...
View ArticleAwesome Stuff: Tools For Animation
For this week's awesome stuff post, we're keeping it simple with just two items, both of which are free and open source projects having to do with animation. First up is Tupi: 2D Animation Software...
View ArticleAwesome Stuff: More Crowdfunding Attempts At Private And Secure Communications
Back in July, we did one of our weekly awesome stuff crowdfunding posts about a variety of new crowdfunding projects designed to keep communications and activites online private and away from snooping...
View ArticleAwesome Stuff: Reclaiming Classic Culture
For years, we've talked about the importance of not letting historical cultural artifacts die out. Unfortunately, today's copyright law has a way of making sure that certain classic cultural works are...
View ArticleAwesome Stuff: 3D Printing And Scanning Keeps Advancing
Welcome back for another week of awesome stuff, our weekly post on interesting crowdfunding projects. First off, just last week, awesome stuff was about reclaiming classic culture, and I expressed...
View ArticleAwesome Stuff: Rethinking The Backpack
As someone who is "on the go" all too frequently, I've been trying to perfect the idea of "my office is in my backpack" for a while (always getting closer and closer but not quite there...). For a...
View ArticleAwesome Stuff: Open Standards And Open Safety
For this week's awesome stuff, we're going to highlight two projects that seek to bring out into the open things that are being held in secret for no good reason at all. Public Safety Codes of the...
View ArticleAwesome Stuff: Security Hardware For The Masses
Securing your computer and phone are something that is increasingly important, especially in light of all of the stories about privacy intrusions we've been discussing the past few months. For the...
View ArticleAwesome Stuff: Hacking Your Car
While there certainly have been improvements in car technology over the past few years, the culture of "hacking" your car still hasn't become as popular as you might expect. We've been seeing a few...
View ArticleAwesome Stuff: Making Travel Better
I've been trying to travel less often these days, but I still do way too much of it. Over the past few years, though, I've become more and more obsessed with perfecting my "travel gear" so that I can...
View ArticleAwesome Stuff: Sweet Dreams
Arianna Huffington has been talking about the importance of "sleeping your way to the top" for years now, though in just doing a search to find some of her earlier speeches for that I see Huffington...
View ArticleAwesome Stuff Goes Dark: Dark Mail And Dark Wallet
This week we've got two projects for our awesome stuff post that have to do with some of the topics we've been discussing lately: secure email and Bitcoin. Last week, we were the first to report that...
View ArticleAwesome Stuff: Sound And Technology
Another week of awesome stuff crowdfunding projects. This week we've got two interesting projects that involve people hacking together cool, but very different, devices to let you do stuff with sound....
View ArticleAwesome Stuff: Goofy Looking Scooters
Remember the hype around the Segway before it came out? Before people even knew what it was, people talked about how they were going to "re-architect cities around it." There were all sorts of rumors...
View ArticleAwesome Stuff: Stuff You Didn't Know You Need
We've been doing the Techdirt awesome stuff posts for a while now: highlighting between two and four crowdfunding projects each week that are demonstrating interesting, unique and (yes, sometimes)...
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