Enlarge ImageIs this the shower of the future? Nebia For something we do pretty much every day, most of us don’t give much thought to our showers. That’s certainly not the case for the six people working at San-Francisco-based startup Nebia. They’ve spent a lot of time thinking about the way we get clean, how …
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“I have a responsibility to do what I can to bring more than just entertainment to the table,” LeVar Burton says. The Web is “the most powerful tool invented in the history of civilization, so why not use it for the highest good for as many souls as possible?” James Martin/CNET News LeVar Burton cried when his Kickstarter campaign for …
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Now playing: Watch this: Ubik Uno, a Kickstarter-launched Android phone, aims… 1:11 The Ubik Uno feels like a pretty decent-looking big-screened Android phone. Would it be the one I’d want to buy? Maybe I’d like it to be thinner and have a better front-facing camera. I could vote for that via Ubik and see if it gets made next time. …
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Z Camera In one weekend, the Kickstarter for the E1 Camera, a GoPro look- and act-alike action camera but with a Micro Four Thirds lens mount, rounded past the 300-percent mark for funding and is rapidly on its way to 400 percent. It’s the brainchild of the unfortunately named startup Z — yup, just the letter “Z” although it’s sometimes …
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One thing I’ve long admired about MacBooks: Apple’s super-cool, super-logical MagSafe, the power connector that pops on and off with magnetic ease. Indeed, I’ve often wondered why the company didn’t bring this tech to iPhones. Third-party developers to the rescue! Znaps is a MagSafe-style magnetic adapter for smartphones — and not just iPhones, but also Android and other Micro-USB-powered devices. …
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Dot is one small headset. So Special Labs Children, as the saying goes, should be seen but not heard. But Bluetooth headsets? Just the opposite. Of course, most headsets are all too visible, hanging off or out of your ear like some clunky Borg implant. Thankfully, a company called So Special Labs aims to change that with the Dot, a …
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SiliconDust SiliconDust was a cord-cutting pioneer before it was fashionable. And now the company is taking to Kickstarter with a software update that adds additional TV-recording features to its line of networked DVRs. The company currently offers a trio of HD HomeRun video streamers, which make antenna- or CableCard-based TV programming available on PCs or mobile devices. But the new …
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A crowdfunding campaign for South Carolina police officer Michael Slager raised more than $1,300 before it was shut down by Indiegogo. Screenshot by CNET Moments after Oklahoma reserve deputy Robert Bates was charged with manslaughter in the fatal shooting of a suspect, a $25,000 fund-raising campaign to pay for his legal bills kicked off on Indiegogo. By the next day, …
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Pebble Time is slated to start rolling out to its backers in May, while the Steel version will launch in July. James Martin/CNET Smartwatch maker Pebble has won back the throne on crowdfunding site Kickstarter. Launching on Kickstarter at the end of February, the company’s latest wearable, the Pebble Time , is now officially the most-funded project ever on the …
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Now playing: Watch this: Beastgrip Pro hopes to tame phoneography 3:08 I once spent a day at CES photographing the different ways people had rigged out their phones, tablets, cameras and camcorders for reporting on the show: there seems to be an infinite number. Beastgrip Pro tries to take on all of them. And based on my preview of the …
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