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Carry on Bluesmart and Connect with Your Bag

Check It Out or Buy on Amazon (Paid Link) When you travel, your carry-on bag should do more than just sit there waiting to board. Bluesmart is the first connected suitcase that will become your personal travel assistant at every leg of your journey. Bluesmart is a TSA and airline approved smart device connected suitcase that can do a number of tasks taking the hassle and stress out of your next trip. From the moment you pack, the handle has a built in scale that will determine the weight of your bag keeping you within the airline's limit. The bag can be locked and [...]

iPhone 6 Cases from Lunatik Offering Complete Protection

One of the first people to grab an iPhone 6 dropped it on the ground on television, because, gravity happens. If you want to protect your new iPhone 6, there are a couple of new options from Lunatik protecting your phone from more than just drops. Taktik 360 and Aquatik are two new cases that will protect your phone from drops, water and dust while maintaining the usability of every phone feature. Both cases use Corning Gorilla glass to protect the screen of the phone and an interior suspension core protection lattice combined with an edge impact bumper to protect against drops. The difference between these two waterproof, dust-proof and [...]

The Olive Bracelet Helps Control Everyday Stress

Stress is something everyone experiences and there is plenty of research showing stress having negative health impacts. Olive will help you recognize when you are stressed, and even take actions to help stress management. Olive is a two-part wearable solution to stress management composed of a bracelet and a smart device application. The Olive bracelet uses a full array of sensors monitoring heart rate, skin conductance and temperature, muscle tension and ambient light, detecting the signs of stress and alerting the wearer through haptic feedback. This information is also sent to a smart device application that over time builds a complete picture of stress in your life, eventually recommending exercises [...]

Load a Full Phone Charge in Five Minutes with Pronto

You are running late for work or an appointment and your phone is dead. Thanks to Power Practical, if you have five minutes, you have a phone charger capable of a full charge on your device. Pronto is a portable power solution for charging mobile devices on the go that loads up enough juice for one full phone charge in just five minutes. Pronto 5 is 4500 milliamp-hour cell that is capable of charging a phone three times, while the Pronto 12 at 13,500 milliamp-hours can charge a phone nine times on a full charge. Each model can also charge USB devices through one or two USB ports, but only [...]

Connectivity is at Hand with a MOTA SmartRing

You have an important business meeting happening right now and you are expecting a very important email. How do you discretely stay connected without looking at your phone and distracting everyone at the meeting? With a MOTA SmartRing. The MOTA SmartRing pairs with your smart device through Bluetooth and allows connectivity to all your important notifications without constantly checking your phone. The ring uses a gentle vibration to notify the wearer that a new notification has been received and a small touch-screen to swipe through important messages. Notifications are completely customizable so you can target calls, emails, calendar appointments or any of the notifications you want to see, like texts, [...]

HEXO+ Drone Platform is Your Autonomous Camera Person

The drone market has really taken off in the last few years. For photographers and videographers, the new HEXO+ camera drone is the camera platform that can autonomously act as your filming wingman. HEXO+ is designed to be as intuitive as possible allowing shooters to focus on filming not flying. The drone unpacks from a backpack transportable form with folding legs and frame becoming flight ready in just minutes. Using an Android or iOS smart device, the user can lock the flying drone's camera angle from the live video stream of the mounted GoPro camera and once locked, the drone will autonomously follow the subject at up to forty-five miles [...]

Doodles Become Digital Instantly with the Equil Smartpen

Check It Out or Buy on Amazon (Paid Link) Great ideas happen when pen meets paper and doodles become more than drawings, they become vision. The Equil Smartpen digitizes your doodles, notes and drawings instantly so they can be shared electronically. The Equil Smartpen is more than just a workable pen or device stylus, it uses ultrasound and infrared to accurately capture everything you write. The pen uses a receiver giving the user the ability to capture and store thousands of pages and then transfer those pages to different apps, pairing to a device through Bluetooth. The Equil Note application uses handwriting recognition to [...]

Seatylock Transforms Bike Seats into Bike Security

Bicycle locks come in many varieties, shapes and sizes and almost all of them have one thing in common: they are hard to transport while riding. Seatylock is the lock that becomes part of your bike, and makes securing your bike a snap when the ride is over. Seatylock is a hardened-steel bike lock that stores conveniently under the bike seat, unfolding to a meter in length and securing your ride in about thirty seconds. Seatylock uses a universal seat post adapter making installation a simple process and has been designed to make replacing a worn seat just as simple down the road. The lock components are rustproof hardened steel [...]

Notion is Home Monitoring Beyond Typical Security Systems

A smart home has typically been defined as a connected home but an intelligent home goes beyond connectivity allowing your house to alert and inform you of what is going on when you are not around. Notion is a new idea in home systems that allows for intelligent monitoring of your home far beyond usual security systems. At the center of the system is a Hub that plugs into a typical wall outlet and connects to your home Wi-Fi network. The workhorses of Notion are small and discrete tags that can be placed anywhere in your house and use an array of sensors to monitor and alert you to customizable [...]