Awesome Stuff: Smart Plugs
For this week's awesome stuff post, highlighting various crowdfunding projects, we're going to look at three different smartplug projects, all of which connect to smartphones. I recognize that this...
View ArticleAwesome Stuff: Lenses For Your Phone
Remember back in the day when people thought that having a camera in your phone was a fad, and that no one would ever really use their camera as a phone because the quality sucked? You don't hear that...
View ArticleAwesome Stuff: Computer Vision And Motion Capture Via Your Webcam
Over the last few years, computer vision and motion capture technology has really advanced at an incredible rate. Things that seemed like science fiction not too long ago can be purchased for very...
View ArticleAwesome Stuff: Bike Lights
Since this was a short week and we took a bit of a break for the holidays, there won't be any "favorites of the week" post today, so enjoy this as your Saturday post. It's getting to be that time of...
View ArticleAwesome Stuff: Rubber Band Guns
For the first awesome stuff post of the new year, we decided to go with something fun: rubber band guns. Not sure exactly why, but it just feels appropriate. First up we've go the Palladium Gun, a...
View ArticleAwesome Stuff: Getting Around On One Or Two Wheels And An Electric Motor
For this week's awesome stuff post, we've got three crowdfunding projects that involve new "electric" transportation devices that help folks get around. First up, we've got The Derringer Electric...
View ArticleAwesome Stuff: Sometimes It's The Simple Stuff
Going through Kickstarter, looking for interesting projects, I've noticed that there are more than a few times I completely skip over certain projects because they just look too simple. For this...
View ArticleAwesome Stuff: Nixie Tube And Oscilloscope Clocks
Okay, so the idea of Nixie tube clocks is hardly a new idea. Nixie tubes have been around for decades, of course, and a good friend of mine has had a Nixie tube clock for years, but new variations...
View ArticleAwesome Stuff: Toys
For this week's awesome stuff post concerning interesting crowdfunding projects, we decided to get a little more playful, and take a look at some toys. First up, is STRAWBEES, a simple connector...
View ArticleAwesome Stuff: Hacking Your Car, Part II
A few months ago, for our awesome stuff post looking at crowdfunding projects, we did one on hacking your car, highlighting a couple of projects involving OBD devices and software. It seems this...
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Tim Cushing's Subjectively Awesome Stuff Of No Particular Timeframe
Our weekly Awesome Stuff post generally deals with interesting and/or useful new products currently being crowdfunded. This week's post will be a little different (actually, entirely different) as I...
View ArticleAwesome Stuff: Everything Old Is New Again
One of our most important themes here at Techdirt is the idea that the act of remixing, reimagining and recombining the creations of the past is not only natural and wonderful, it's the primary (and...
View ArticleAwesome Stuff: Stand And Deliver
There's a huge industry out there for smartphone and tablet accessories, and that industry contains a lot of hastily-made junk. But it also provides an opportunity for real innovation and smart,...
View ArticleAwesome Stuff: New Ways To Play
Kickstarter has launched a lot of brand new games, both video- and otherwise, but it's also home to plenty of people working on ways to enhance and alter existing games, and those people are the stars...
View ArticleAwesome Stuff: Get Out And Exercise
For this week's awesome stuff post on interesting crowdfunding projects, I thought we'd look at some unique ideas that are trying to help people exercise more. First up, we've got the amusingly named...
View ArticleAwesome Stuff: A Notebook For Your Thoughts
Sure, sure, we live in a digital age and most of us carry around powerful smartphones and tablets. But there's still just something about being able to write notes or draw that old-fashioned analog...
View ArticleAwesome Stuff: Mainstreaming Augmented And Virtual Reality
Yeah, so you've heard about how Facebook recently bought Oculus, perhaps the most high profile virtual reality company out there, for about $2 billion. But there are a number of others out there...
View ArticleAwesome Stuff: Functional Fashion
Style and fashion constantly change in capricious, unpredictable and decidedly non-linear ways — but the underlying function of clothing and accessories follows the same path as any other technology:...
View ArticleAwesome Stuff: Stand While You Work
As some folks know, I'm a pretty big believer in standing while you work rather than sitting. It takes a little while to get used to, but these days I greatly prefer standing. While the first few...
View ArticleAwesome Stuff: Pedal Power
If, like me, you live in one of the many places enduring the brunt of this "polar vortex" winter, then you've probably been teased with a taste of spring-to-come over the past couple of weeks. And for...
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