This A.M.P. robot (Automated Music Personality) was spotted at DEMO Fall this month. It’s a two-wheeled, self-balancing boombox robot that serves up music through its two hand speakers and a subwoofer in its chest. With music controlled by your smartphone, this bot is a definite party accessory. The rep for OLogic says it will cost...
Daily Archives: September 16, 2011
Actually, Apple Has Always Been Insane About Security For Its New Products
Last week, we told you a tale about the crazy lengths Apple went through to keep the iPad under wraps. That’s nothing new. David Gewirtz worked at Mac developer Living Videotext in the 1980s. He emailed us a story about the security surrounding the release of the Macintosh II. Up until this time, the...
Wrap It Up: Photos From Our First TC Gadgets/Mobile Meet-Up
It’s been a long while since we had a formal Gadgets/Mobile meet-up and I’m proud to say that this one, sponsored by Samsung, was a roaring success. We had people who drank far too much, people who ate far too many Cheez-Its (there were, sadly, no hors d’oeuvres so we made do with Hackathon...
Track Your Dog With Retrieva, The Compact GPS Dog Collar
One of the cooler gadgets we saw at Disrupt this year was the new Retrieva GPS dog tracker. Completely redesigned, this device lets you track Fido wherever he does roam and will let people know where to take him or her if lost. The device lasts about a week on one charge and will...
Here Comes The PlayBook Fire Sale! (RIMM)
The PlayBook price cuts have begun, and the tablets are going for as little as $250. BGR picked up the new pricing from Canadian wireless carrier Rogers. Keep in mind that these prices are in Canadian dollars and that the discounted PlayBooks are only available to Rogers employees for now. But, it does provide...
The New Social Network: Who’s Nearby, Not Who You Know
There’s a new concept for social networking services taking root, and it’s not about re-creating your offline social graph on the Web, like Facebook does today. It’s about discovering the people who are nearby you now – the ones you probably would like to meet. This type of discovery mechanism is already being made...
Who Spends The Most In Freemium Games? Battle Of The Sexes Edition
Just last week, I wrote about a data dive by mobile research firm Flurry (who, thanks to their mobile analytics SDK, has a sample group of about 20 million users across 110,000 iOS/Android apps) on which age group was shelling out the most cash in freemium mobile games. Almost immediately, the top rated comment...
Why RIM Can’t Ditch Consumers And Focus On The Enterprise (RIMM)
In the U.S., comScore estimates there are about 17.8 million BlackBerry subscribers. Of those, just 2.8 million — or 16% — are considered enterprise subscribers. That is: Phones paid for directly by employer, fully reimbursed, or partially reimbursed. Important caveat: comScore only measures primary devices, and a lot of BlackBerry phones — particularly those...
TV, music or Facebook: Your age determines your daily entertainment [Infographic]
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Different generations of media consumers have been shown to digest different types of content at different times of day. Depending on the age demographic, media can use the following information to target which types of users they hope to market to. In a recent survey provided to AdAge by Magid Generational Strategies (a firm that...
TenMarks Raises $3 Million For Personalized Math Learning SaaS
Education technology startup TenMarks has raised $3 million in new funding led by Catamount Ventures with Birchmere Ventures participating. James Joaquin, new partner at Catamount Ventures, is joining TenMarks’ board. TenMarks offers a cloud-based service that provides a personalized practice and learning software to help teach students of varying skill levels math concepts. TenMarks...