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The URB-E E-Vehicle Makes Urban Commuting a Breeze

Check It Out or Buy on Amazon (Paid Link) People looking for alternative and green urban transportation are getting another option that is also extremely portable. URB-E is a foldable electric scooter that completes your commute giving you a compact and lightweight vehicle for the, "last mile." URB-E unfolds from a form factor that enables the system to go anywhere when not in use, like on a train, bus or pulled along like luggage. The vehicle only weighs twenty-seven pounds, including the lithium-ion battery that will power URB-E for a range of up to twenty miles and charges in just three hours. A 250-Watt [...]

Get Your Groove On Anywhere with GrooveMaker

Creating a music bed or loop anywhere at any time just got a lot easier with the introduction of GrooveMaker, an iOS application that gives techno-musicians a portable music mixing studio right on their smart device. GrooveMaker looks like most multi-track music mixing programs at first; once you start using the app, you quickly realize how easy it is to mix a loop. GrooveMaker lets the musician pick from one to eight tracks and using the grid format quickly change up the loop just by moving the blocks in the track to select different grooves of each sound. Each individual block can be manipulated in the pad view changing the [...]

Pocket Drone is Your Personal and Portable Aerial Robot

Being followed by a drone is probably not something that would excite most of us unless that drone was a Pocket Drone micro-copter. AirDroids is building a personal flying robotic camera platform that will follow you on your adventures. Pocket Drone is a small and lightweight micro-copter that unfolds from a case no larger than a camera bag and is ready to fly in seconds. For its size, the Pocket Drone boasts some amazing performance specifications. It weighs only about one pound yet can carry a payload of up to a half-pound making it perfect for aerial photography. It can fly up to 5000 feet in altitude, has a maximum [...]

Sammy Screamer Alerts When Your Items Get Moved

When most people think of a motion sensor, they think of a device that monitors an area for movement. Sammy Screamer is a motion sensor that detects when a specific object has been moved. Sammy Screamer is a small motion sensor that can be attached to almost any object with a clip, string or even magnetically. It uses Bluetooth to communicate to a smartphone application with a range of up to 150 feet allowing the user to set sensitivity and volume through the intuitive interface. When the object the device is monitoring moves, Sammy Screamer alarms with an audible sound and sends push notifications to the tethered smart device alerting [...]

Look and Feel Your Best Using the Smart Diet Scale

Check It Out or Buy on Amazon (Paid Link) The biggest problems with reaching dietary goals are portion control and eating the right foods at every meal. The Smart Diet Food Scale is your personal dietitian, enabling a proper diet for reaching your goals and recovering your self-esteem and confidence. The Smart Diet Scale is a very easy to use nutritional food scale tool that will help balance your diet and achieve your goals. The scale uses four different weighing areas allowing an entire meal to be weighed and recorded at the same time using the microwave and table-safe Smart Diet Plates. Each weighing [...]

iSwimband is a Wearable Water Safety Swim Buddy

Not everyone can afford a full-time lifeguard for their backyard or even neighborhood pool making close monitoring of persons in the water more important than ever. iSwimband is a water activity companion that could save a life, alerting parents and preventing accidental drowning. iSwimband is a personal water safety system that is designed to prevent accidental drowning for toddlers, children or anyone regardless of swimming ability. The device can be worn as a headband or attached to the wrist of a toddler or someone who is not supposed to be in the water. Sensors on the iSwimband can monitor how long the device is underwater or if the device touches [...]

Fin Thumb Ring for Gesture-Based Device Control

Being able to control devices from across the room is getting a thumbs-up from wearable tech with the new Fin, a gesture control ring that that will have your devices talking to your hand. Fin is a ring worn on the thumb that enables gesture control of remote devices by touching segments of different fingers. It uses Bluetooth to communicate commands to connected devices based on which segment of each finger is touched. By using a smart device app, commands can be assigned to the Fin and just by motion of your thumb perform actions like changing the channel on your television, dial numbers on your phone, adjust the volume [...]

Turn Heads with the Lunasee Hi-Viz Wheel Lighting Safety System

Check It Out or Buy on Amazon (Paid Link) Riding a motorcycle at night safely means being seen and not wondering if the next car encounter will be the driver that did not see you. The Lunasee Hi-Viz Wheel Lighting system lights up your bike profile with a stylish glow, ensuring people will notice. The Lunasee Hi-Viz Wheel Lighting system is a combination of frame-mounted LED lights and wheel rim applied photoluminescent tape. Installing the system takes about two to five hours depending on your skills and involves applying the four-millimeter tape to the wheel rim, fastening the LED pods to the swing arm [...]

GateKeeper Locks Your Computer when You are AFK

Check It Out or Buy on Amazon (Paid Link) From office environments to dorm rooms it is never a good idea to have your computer unlocked when you are away, inviting anyone to access your information. The GateKeeper makes sure that when you are away your computer is locked. GateKeeper is a very small FOB computer lock that you can attach to your keychain, backpack, employee identification badge holder or just keep it in your pocket. It works with a USB dongle on the system and using Bluetooth wireless with AES encryption monitors signal strength between the two units. When the signal drops, the [...]