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Cryoscope gadget simulates tomorrow's weather today (video)
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This multi-layered device can't shower you with hail or tan your outdoor-deprived complexion, regrettably. What it can do though, is deliver a direct haptic sensation of how warm or cold it'll be tomorrow, just in case you decide to venture out of your bedroom. An Arduino controller pulls in...
Menswear Startup American Giant Gets Into The T-Shirt Business
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American Giant, a startup offering affordable, American-made apparel for men, is expanding into T-shirt sales today. The company launched at the beginning of February. CEO Bayard Winthrop has decades of experience in the apparel industry, including a stint as the CEO of Chrome, the preferred laptop bag-maker for hipsters. Winthrop...
TshirtOS is web-connected, programmable, 100 percent cotton
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An LED display, camera, microphone, speaker and accelerometer all packaged into a t-shirt and controlled via your smartphone? That's the concept behind tshirtOS, a wearable platform for "self-expression" that currently only exists as a prototype. It can show off tweets, play music videos, capture belly-height photos and send them...
SXSW In A Nutshell: Homeless People As Hotspots
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South By Southwest 2012 can be summarized thusly: An impossibly-named marketing company called Bartle Bogle Hegarty is doing a little human science experiment called Homeless Hotspots. It gives out 4G hotspots to homeless people along with a promotional t-shirt. The shirt doesn't say, "I have a 4G hotspot." It says,...
Google’s One-Gender-Fits-All T-Shirts Don’t Fit
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Google VP Susan Wojcicki vowed to change the Google I/O t-shirt policy to accomodate women’s sizes. Photo: Esther Dyson/Flickr Google I/O hadn’t even started when critics began unloading on how the developer conference was being run. A forward-thinking Google panel on how to get more women in tech became a...
The Internet Puts Up A Billboard In Front Of Lamar Smith's Office: Don't Mess With The Internet
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You may recall that, back in March, on a whim based on a discussion at SXSW, Alexis Ohanian and Erik Martin (from Reddit) teamed up with Holmes Wilson (from Fight for the Future) to crowdfund a billboard to go up in Lamar Smith's district in Austin. It turns out that...
And The First Facebook IPO Hackathon Photos Roll In
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Hundreds of Facebook employees congregated at ‘Hacker Square’ at the company’s Menlo Park headquarters this evening ahead of the company’s insanely-hyped initial public offering. Now, some of the first photos are starting to trickle in. There was a standing ovation for chief executive Mark Zuckerberg, who gave a talk before...
Pi Day Contest: What's Your Vision for Quantum Computing?
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To celebrate Pi Day on March 14th (3.14), we're giving away a cool Pi Day T Shirt from ThinkGeek. To win our Pi Day Contest, we want to know your vision for Quantum Computing. The possibilities are exciting. Many people, including RWW's Mobile guru, Dan Rowinski, believe it may be...
The Fancy launches new iPhone app that pushes 1-click purchases as it nears 1M users
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Stylish inspiration hub The Fancy, which feels like a highly curated Pinterest (minus the tumblr-esque fashion photos and cute bunny rabbits), has just released a brand new iPhone app. This release marks a significant change for the company, continuing its subtle move away from a visual bookmarking tool into a commerce...
Smoke and mirrors: taking the Windows Phone challenge
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"Do you think I have a chance of winning?" I asked the nice lady in the blue Microsoft t-shirt. "No," she said, a split second after the last word left my mouth. "Droid 4, right?" She pointed at my device. "I had that phone." At the Valley Fair Shopping...
Stompy: A Hardware Project That Even Kickstarter Must Love
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This morning as I was reading the PandoTicker to catch up on what I missed while sleeping, I came across Stompy. Stompy is a six-legged robot seeking to raise funding on Kickstarter so he can exist. (Or more appropriately, his creators are.) They want to raise a whopping $65,000 to...
Japan finally embraces e-reader revolution
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Japan's leading online retailer Rakuten is hoping to see off Amazon's Kindle and corner the world's second-largest publishing marketFor a nation of technology-loving avid readers, Japan has been slow to join the digital publishing revolution. While consumers in the US and Europe increasingly turn to e-readers, many Japanese have stubbornly...
Kickstarter talks to us about product 'pre-orders,' won't force refunds when creators flake
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Kickstarter has proven an incredibly effective venue for connecting project creators with monetary support -- inventors pitch directly to consumers, indie filmmakers meet indie producers and food trucks get the financial push necessary to take their restaurants to the road. With the latter two, backers don't necessarily expect goods...
Meet The Internet Defense League (And Join It, Too)
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A bunch of the folks who were instrumental in the SOPA/PIPA fight have been working together over the last few months to build The Internet Defense League, which is launching today. Techdirt is a founding member, along with a number of other organizations and sites, including Reddit, Mozilla, Cheezburger, EFF,...
Business Insider Employees Model What You Should (And Shouldn't) Wear To Work In The Summer
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When the weather gets hot outside, it can be hard to dress appropriately while still being comfortable. And as the workplace becomes more casual, should the dress code also be more lenient? To get some perspective, we caught up with Tiffiny Dixon, the founder of MEO, a fashion consultancy. "As...
Rovio CEO: When To Go Public is Up to Dad, Other Owners
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Rovio released its first financial figures this week, but the company has not decided when, where or whether to go public. “This is a decision of Rovio’s owners if Rovio will file for IPO, when it would be and in what market,” CEO Mikael Hed told AllThingsD. “These kind of...
What The Senate’s Crowdfunding Act Means For The Tech Industry Right Now [TCTV]
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The Crowdfunding Act, a bill to reduce restrictions on regular people investing in privately held companies, passed through the United States Senate today with flying colors in a 73-26 vote. But legislative matters are by definition quite complex (which is, of course, ostensibly why we elect people to deal...
T-shirt that charges your phone
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Scientists find a way to treat a cheap t-shirt so that it is capable of storing electrical power....
Stop freaking out about turning the homeless into hotspots at SxSW
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A marketing firm is catching heat from the tech community for a project that temporarily turned the city of Austin, Texas’ homeless population into mobile 4G hotspots during the South by Southwest (SxSW) Interactive event this weekend. Essentially, BBH Labs outfitted 13 volunteers from a homeless shelter with a...
Moontoast’s new analytics tool makes sense of all that social commerce data (exclusive)
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Turning social media influence into gold is one thing, but measuring how you did it is quite another, according to social commerce startup Moontoast. Moontoast provides musicians, celebrities, and brands with a way to generate money from the often large followings they have on social media platforms like Facebook...
Dropping phones: iPhone 4S v. Samsung Galaxy S III
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Everyone likes a good Apple versus Android video, right? Well, SquareTrade, which appropriately provides extended warranties on your technology, did a drop test of the iPhone 4S versus the Samsung Galaxy S III. Get ready for some communications carnage. SquareTrade simulated a number of drop-scenarios including a fall from ear-height,...
NSA trolls for talent at Def Con, the nation's largest hacker conference
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The presence of federal agents at Def Con, declared or otherwise, is nothing new. One of the event's mosttraditions even turns spotting the latter category into a goodnatured sport. But on its 20th anniversary, the world-famous hacker conference experienced an interesting first: a keynote speech from the director of...
Atari founder on Steve Jobs: Apple culture came from Atari
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TUAW interviewed one of only a few people to ever hire Steve Jobs, Nolan Bushnell, founder of Atari. As you might expect, he’s working on a few iOS projects and is particularly interested in augmented reality. But these paragraphs stood out: “He basically lived just below me in Woodside for...
TshirtOS Is the World's First Instagram-Friendly T-Shirt
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Do clothes make the man or does the man make the clothes? Programmable, social-media friendly tshirtOS claims its the latter....
Manpacks, American Apparel, and startup arbitrage
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We love Manpacks here at TNW. The idea, the team, and the execution are all too good to ignore. That we need the service is simply icing on the cake. If you want a full look at the company, and its origins, head here. It’s worth reading. However, today we...
This Guy Blew $60,000 On Private Investigators To Rescue His Dog From An Ex
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Americans love their furry companions – pet care spending topped $50 billion in 2011 alone – but Craig Dershowitz's fight to rescue his dog Knuckles is one for the books. Dershowitz says he's blown $60,000 on a team of private investigators and attorneys to win back custody of Knuckles from...
DRM and the NPR example
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Some e-book buyers embrace a little friction, says Joe Esposito at The Scholarly Kitchen. Esposito wonders whether DRM is more effective in preventing “casual copying” than large-scale infringement: It will be argued that the promotional value of free copies outweighs the lost sales due to sharing. I don’t think so;...
Windows Phone swag store full of baby onesies, beer glasses
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Let the geek fashion wars begin! I'll see your Apple rugby sweatshirt and raise you a Windows Phone organic kids T-shirt from the Windows Phone Gear Store. [Read more]...
Analyst who attacked Zuck’s hoodie says: “A jacket over a T-shirt and jeans would be fine”
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I have to believe that Michael Pachter of Wedbush Securities is just looking for attention at this point. Yesterday, we reported that Pachter called Mark Zuckerberg’s signature hoodie a “mark of immaturity” is at it again on Bloomberg. This time, he has alternative fashion suggestions for Zuck (bold by TNW):...
Startup News: LetsLunch Wants to Send You on a Platonic Date
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Umami's new "Dishboard" TV IS SOCIAL. At New York Tech Meetup earlier this month, Umami showed us how their audio fingerprinting technology can help users find anything and everything about the show we're watching. Now, they're rolling out exciting new features designed to make TV even more social: a Pinterest-like feature will let Umami users...
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