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​Misfit turns $50 Flash fitness band into smart home remote, too

Sarah Tew/CNET Turn off your lights with your wrist, click. Turn up the thermostat, click. The Misfit Flash , an entry-level fitness tracker released last year that’s already a really good, cheap gadget, will get a lot more useful soon. Misfit announced it’ll soon work as a sort of smart-home-operating remote, too, via a set of partnerships detailed in a …

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Turn drinking straws into crazy dancing robots with Quirkbot

Quirkbot can do some pretty awesome things, like letting you control a game of Pac-Man using bananas. Quirkbot Hey kids, straws aren’t just for drinking apple juice anymore. A new Kickstarter campaign for a device called Quirkbot will help you turn those old straws into a fully functional robot. Launched by Kids Hack Day, Quirkbot itself is a programmable microcontroller …

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