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Google Glass app Glashion “OK glass, I want this!” buys anything you see

Posted by – December 29, 2013

Glashion is a Google Glass project that allows you to buy fashion products that you are looking at. Look at any fashionable bag or dress on a bypasser or in a store, and then the app queries the ShopStyle API for similar matches based on object recognition technology. You simply tell Glass when you see a product, “Ok glass, I want this!” and you can then buy the product with a blink. At least that is their idea.

streamroot 4K p2p video streaming over HTML5 WebRTC for FranceTV

Posted by – December 28, 2013

Stream for example 4K video for cheaper bandwidth costs as all users can upload using this p2p live video streaming technology from http://www.streamroot.io/ StreamRoot is a JavaScript/HTML5 solution which optimizes the bandwidth consumption of your video streaming platform by turning the mass of simultaneous viewers to advantage. When a user streams a video on your website, he connects to the other viewers watching the same video and downloads parts of it directly from them. StreamRoot is based on HTML5 and uses WebRTC so there is no plugin or application to install for the end user

David Hornik at LeWeb 2013

Posted by – December 28, 2013

David Hornik is an investor at August Capital and he talks about ventural capitalism with Web startups, with tech companies, if he thinks that there is a new tech bubble going on now with Facebook/Twitter/etc or not.

And here’s the US VC Roundtable at LeWeb 2013:

Dina Kaplan, Co-Founder, Blip at LeWeb 2013

Posted by – December 28, 2013

She traveled all around the world over the last few years after quitting her job CEO of Blip.tv.

You can watch her keynote at LeWeb 2013 here:

Xavier Niel, Free Illiad Founder, talks ISP and Carrier revolutionizing the Internet out of France

Posted by – December 24, 2013

Here’s my Interview with Xavier Niel, the founder of Free, the second biggest ISP in France, invented triple play, where an ISP provides Internet, TV and Telephony through an advanced ADSL Set-top-box, and they have been providing such fast Internet with full IPTV and unlimited VOIP landline-replacement for a very reasonable 29 Euros per month, they started this years before every other ISP in the world had to follow up. And now in France since a year or two, Free provides 3G and now also 4G telephony, with amazingly cheap 2 Euro per month entry level pricing, all pre-paid no-contract only plans, this also has totally revolutionized the mobile carrier business in France.

faytech Touch Device, Management Interview

Posted by – December 21, 2013

This video is an informative and interesting interview with Fan Yang and Arne Weber, the owners of faytech ltd, discussing the history and evolution of their years in the touchscreen industry and their passion to build the best products possible. Beginning over 8 years ago with starting to sell touchscreen monitors in Germany, they set up a importing business based in Germany which has grown to be one of Europe’s largest distributors of touchscreen devices. In 2008, Arne and Fan began to travel to China to find better suppliers, and ended up moving to Shenzhen and starting their own manufacturing company. Four short years later, faytech has over 70 employees, 15K sq. ft. of space, producing over 2000 touch screen monitors and touchscreen PCs a month, and achieving ISO certification in 2013.

DSP Concepts, Embedded Audio Processing

Posted by – December 20, 2013

DSP Concepts demonstrates real-time audio processing for the ARM Cortex-M4, providing tools for audio processing.

Latest Freescale powered devices, wearable, internet of things, home hub and more


Freescale shows their wearable reference design, tiny to develop i.MX6 based BT4.0 accellerometer, adding ECG, heart-rate monitor, enabling a new range of Freescale powered wearable computers, smartwatches, headmounted computers, fitness devices, more to be announced and integrated. Freescale powers a range of healthcare products, weightscales, heart rate monitors and more. Freescale shows their Freescale One Box Platform, providing a reference Smart Home hub gateway, using Java, all the different wireless technologies integrated.

Geniatech dual-boots Linux with Qt UI on their AmLogic based Set-top-boxes

Posted by – December 19, 2013

Geniatech engineer shows how they support dual-booting to some basic Linux from the SD card on several of the Geniatech Android Set-top-boxes, going back to their single-core AmLogic M3 based Set-top-boxes and also to their new ones. Geniatech tries or wants to provide everything open source and unlock their Set-top-boxes so for users who want a cheap ARM Powered Linux box, they can use Geniatech for that also.

Kevin Marks talks evolution of the Web 2003-2023 at LeWeb 2013

Posted by – December 19, 2013

Kevin Marks talks HTML5, Open Standards, Webkit, browser ecosystem, it’s not just text anymore, it’s SVG, video, sound, device access and all kinds of stuff that are being baked into the platforms and that are being translated between the platforms, that is being solved. The difficulty is now we have large silos in Facebook, Twitter and some other proprietary social networks, that is what the IndieWeb is all about, trying to build infrastructure where components are composed on your own website, where you can swap pieces in and out of the proprietary social networking silos.

Here’s a video of Kevin Marks’s keynote presentation at LeWeb 2013:

Swatch Sistem51 review, automatic, mechanical Swiss Watch for the mass market

Posted by – December 19, 2013

My unboxing and review of the new Swatch Sistem51, revolutionary ultra-simplified robot-automatic-manufactured, 51-part mechanical automatic wrist watch selling now in Switzerland for 150 Swiss Francs ($169), to be released in the USA/China in early 2014 and in the rest of the world later in 2014. This is the latest advancement in Swiss Watch Making technology, 90-hour power reserve, one screw holds everything together, with anti-magnetic structure. This significantly simplifies the mechanical automatic watch and makes it available to the mass market. Of course I want to see Swatch release real Smart Watches in 2014, using E Ink and LCD displays, using smart LEDs, Bluetooth 4.0, smart buttons, covering their watches with touch screens, including vibrators, microphones and speakers, all the while it’s great to see such mechanical advancement for the Swiss Watch industry. I expect ARM Powered Smart Swatches for next year, they could perhaps even combine the battery powered ARM Processor with the automatic watch mechanics.

You can listen to Alexander Linz of Watch-Insider.com’s really interesting 45-minute interview with Swatch Group CEO Nick Hayek here: http://www.watch-insider.com/featured/conversation-nick-hayek-ceo-swatch-group/

Swatch Sistem51

Pipo M8HD, 10.1″ 1920×1200, RK3188, 2GB RAM

Posted by – December 18, 2013

Pipo shows their Pipo M8HD 10.1″ Full HD Rockchip RK3188 Tablet, 2GB RAM, started to ship around October 2013, competes with Nexus 10 and the price is about half of Nexus 10 and about 30% of the latest iPad. 5 megapixel back camera with flash. The multi-window Android user interface option also comes included, being developed by Rockchip. The possible retail price is $169€.

Mentor Graphics ARM Embedded Software demos

Posted by – December 18, 2013

Here are some of the latest Mentor Graphics embedded software development demos, showing their embedded hypervisor demo running on a Freescale i.MX6, running one OS for the touch-screen in a car, and another to run the car systems for example. They will soon have support for ARM Cortex-A15 and ARMv8 also. Mentor Graphics also talks about their Sourcery CodeBench Virtual Edition software that allows to develop solutions before the silicon being ready, developing software on hardware that does not yet exist.

Omate Truesmart, MT6572 Android Smart Watch

Posted by – December 18, 2013

Omate raised over $1 Million on Kickstarter, selling the MT6572 single-sim card smart watch starting at $199, they have been shipping for the past 2 weeks. Android functionality, support by MediaTek, 1.54″ LG 240×240 LCD capacitive touchscreen display using Sapphire Crystal coating to make it unscratchable. GPS, 5 Megapixel built-in camera, 600mAh battery, Accelerometer, Compass, Gyroscope, Vibration, Bluetooth 4.0 and much more.

Ubuntu Founder Mark Shuttleworth, runs on 30 Smartphones, all ARM Servers and upcoming ARM Laptops

Posted by – December 17, 2013

Ubuntu Founder, Mark Shuttleworth, talks about why he started Ubuntu, how it runs on 30 different ARM Powered Smartphones, on all the ARM Servers, on upcoming ARM Powered Laptops also. GPU providers opening up more and more to allow full Ubuntu hardware acceleration, optimizing Ubuntu on one GPU can enable Ubuntu on ARM Powered phones, tablets, laptops and desktops also.

Robert Scoble “Age of Context” at LeWeb 2013

Posted by – December 17, 2013

The five converging forces promise to change virtually every aspect of our lives. You know them as: mobile, data, sensors and location-based technology. Combined with social media they form a new generation of personalized technology that knows us better than our closest friends. Armed with that knowledge our personal devices can anticipate what we’ll need next and serve us better than a butler or an executive assistant.

You can buy Robert Scoble’s new book or ebook at amazon.com

The Veger Power Bank Design Headquarters Tour

Posted by – December 16, 2013

This video explores the design of the portable power bank. The Veger Power is a registered trademark in New York, and outsources manufacturing to the Shenzhen Utopia Technology. Veger is a professional design company, with an international sales team with 10 years of experience in the field of advanced structural engineering, and 11 years of experience in electrical engineering and PCBA design. The goal is to use polymer li-ion battery to achieve super capacity. A suitable polymer li-ion battery must be selected to produce a product with an aesthetic appearance. Veger’s professional design engineering team releases 2-3 new models into the market each month. Veger has numerous options available. Your Logo can be printed onto the products, if desired, for sale in your country. You can also opt to sell the products using the Veger brand name.

If you are a brand owner or agency, please feel free to contact Veger by email: vegerpower@gmail.com we always offer the highest level of service to you.

Veger Power contact details:
Contact person: Coco.Jiang
Skype: coco5176
Email: vegerpower@gmail.com

Droid Translator automatic Android conversation translation app

Posted by – December 16, 2013

The dream of speaking one language that instantly translates to another language when you are traveling to some foreign country is now possible. Here using the tiwinnovation’s startup’sapp Droid Translator, which sends text to speech then speech to text from one Android device to the other. You can find Droid Translator for Android here: http://droid-translator.tiwinnovations.com/ and on Google Play Store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tiwlab.droidtranslator

Here’s their official presentation at the LeWeb 2013 Startup Competition:

Eightly Experience Engine, hosted on the cloud, presented by Andy Grignon

Posted by – December 12, 2013

At LeWeb 2013, Eightly is launched, presented for the first time. The idea is to make it easy for anyone to create iPad/iPhone and Android apps/experiences just by filling out a form, or/and by dragging and dropping actions, events, rules, parameters, sources of content, links etc onto an experience creator user interface. The idea to provide wiziwig type of UI for people to create apps for Smartphones, Tablets, Set-top-boxes, Smart Watches and more. When you create a channel inside of Eightly, you can assemble and combine experiences, features, designs, while Eightly thus combines those features using their smooth graphics accelerated native code user interfaces and fill them out with the contents and ideas that people have and want to share on smart devices with their friends, family, perhaps also for businesses to share their ideas to customers also.

Recipay Monetize your recipies online

Posted by – December 12, 2013

Recipay Monetizes your recipies, just invent new food recipies, if possible using foods from sponsoring brands, including vegan stuff, post it on Recipay and they will pay you for your recipies based on the sponsorships coming from the food brands! They especially want more Vegan, vegetarian recipies, so go there, take nice pictures of some delicious foods you invent, note down the recipies, post them and make money! Normal people can do it.