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Pixelstick Creates Amazing Long-Exposure Light Painting Photos

I can guarantee you have never had this much fun swinging a six-foot stick around. The new Pixelstick by Bitbanger Labs gives anyone with an interest in light painting a friendly entry point to this self-expressive and evolving medium. Pixelstick is a giant brush for long-exposure photography that makes light painting easier and adds dimension to what can be created. The two three-foot sections assemble into a central bracket that also allows the connection of a lockable or free-spinning handle giving the artist 198 full-color RGB LED lights that they can use to paint the town. Any 198-pixel bitmap image can be loaded to the control panel through an SD [...]

Woojer Creates Haptic Harmonies to Feel Music and Sound

The biggest draw to being at a concert, club or cranking your stereo to eleven is the feel of the sound banging into your body and the complete immersion in the experience. Woojer has found a way to take that experience with you anywhere with haptic feedback, changing the way we listen to music. Woojer is a very small wearable audio accessory that lets the wearer feel the sound from their audio source through perceptual haptic feedback inference. It works by clipping Woojer to the clothes at either the sternum or base of the spine and then connecting Woojer in-line between the music player, gaming system, television or other audio [...]

The Rebel Speaker Water Resistant Audio Alternative

Listening to music from your smart device in the shower is fine if you do not mind the sound quality from the speaker and the lack of control of the device when dripping wet. The Rebel Speaker will not mind being your shower buddy giving you an audio alternative shower speaker in wet surroundings. The Rebel Speaker is a water-resistant shower speaker and speakerphone for your smartphone or tablet. The silicon case surrounding the device not only acts as a suction cup allowing you to stick it anywhere, but also contains the controls for volume and answering calls. The Rebel pairs with a smartphone or tablet through Bluetooth, has a [...]

FilterWatch Monitors Airflow Saving Heating and Cooling Costs

Keeping your furnace running at peak efficiency means making sure a dirty filter is not costing you money. FilterWatch lets you know when the furnace filter needs to be changed, keeping your home warm and your wallet happy. FilterWatch is a small device that attaches to any return or output vent to monitor the airflow drawn through the furnace filter. Once attached, the device takes care of itself; just load up a new furnace filter, hit the start button on the FilterWatch and it will alert you when the airflow drops indicating a dirty filter. The final version of FilterWatch will have an LCD display so owners can check the [...]

Coin Stores Your Credit Cards on One Convenient Smart Card

Check It Out or Buy on Amazon (Paid Link) Every card in your wallet from credit cards to loyalty cards does basically the same thing and with the same strip technology, so why build a bulging collection when you can get a device that stores your cards on one card. Coin is a credit card sized storage device that works in the exact same way as the rest of the cards you already carry. It uses a smartphone app and a credit card reader that comes with the Coin to simply swipe and store as many cards as you want and then transfer up [...]

Toss Panono and Use 36 Cameras to Capture Everything

Not many people would toss their digital camera or smartphone in the air to grab a photo and even if you did, who knows what you would capture. Panono can satisfy the need to lob a camera and even return with an amazing high-resolution photo of every direction. Panono is a 360 degree camera that you can toss into the air, mount on a pole or hold in your hand to capture an entire panoramic view. The ball shaped device encased in a tough clear plastic uses 36 fixed focus cameras that capture the image when Panono reaches apogee. The device then sends a preview image wirelessly to your smart [...]

ION Glasses Smart Frames for Mobile Device Control

If glasses make you look smarter, just imagine how you will look wearing smart glasses. The ION Glasses smart frame give the wearer fashionable geek chic interaction with their mobile devices. ION Glasses is a smart frame that use a simple two-button control system and a multi-color LED to interact with your smartphone or tablet. The controller is located in the right arm of the frame and communicates wirelessly through Bluetooth with the wearer's smart device. The buttons are programmed through the ION app to control phone functions like the camera, music selection or other remote tasks. From the app, the user can also bind colors to notifications they get [...]

Bublcam Captures Full Spherical 360-Degree Photos and Video

Panoramic shots can capture the view but limit the observer to a single plane. The new Bublcam 360 degree camera removes all blind spots for a true 360-degree spherical capture, giving viewers the ability to truly explore every direction of the shot as if they were there. Bublcam is a digital 360 degree camera housed in a rugged aluminum die-cast package and small enough to go anywhere. It uses four 190-degree cameras to capture a complete spherical view of the world recording video at 30fps for 720p, 15fps for 1080p or can take 14 megapixel images. The real magic of Bublcam is in the software that uses a heat mapped [...]

TellSpec Handheld Scanner Identifies Food Allergens and Nutrition

The labels on food containers can tell us what is in our food but even those can be suspect with food companies listing only what they need by regulation. For food safety and to know exactly what is in the food we eat, anywhere we are eating, requires spectrometer analysis that until now has been out of reach. TellSpec not only puts laser spectrometer analysis within reach, it puts it right in our hands in a portable package for food safety anywhere. TellSpec works by firing a laser at the food you are about to eat and captures the reflected spectrum that it sends wirelessly to cloud servers for analysis. [...]