When we last covered Lully, the YC-Backed startup had just announced the close of a $2.1 million seed round for operations surrounding their flagship product called The Sleep Guardian. That product launched in June of 2015. Today they are launching an updated version—The Sleep Guardian Plus.
sraeli startup NUA Robotics has unveiled a prototype for luggage that uses Bluetooth technology to sync with a smartphone app, locate its owner, and follow along.
The case also features an anti-theft alarm, a USB port for charging electronic devices on the go, and can send real-time data, including its weight and location, to the app.
“Any object can be smart and robotic,” the co-founder and CEO of NUA Robotics Alex Libman told Mashable on Thursday. “We want to bring robots into everyday life.”
Ember Technologies, the company behind the temperature-controlled mug, is raising a $4 million series B funding round. It has already secured nearly $750,000 in commitments from investors and told VentureBeat that it has a valuation of $60 million with a $2.73 stock price.
La capital alavesa tiene en marcha la iniciativa Vitoria-Gasteiz Ciudad Laboratorio, una propuesta que pone los espacios públicos urbanos a disposición de las empresas tecnológicas, de cara a que puedan realizar pilotos de sus productos y servicios más innovadores en un entorno real. Dentro del programa se han seleccionado ya siete proyectos, y los prototipos se están probando en el territorio.
Wearables will “disappear” in 2016, predicts New Enterprise Associates venture capital partner Rick Yang, cited in a Wednesday (Dec. 16) CNBC article — integrated “very directly into your everyday life, into your existing fashion sense to the extent that nobody knows you’re wearing a wearable,” he said.
For example, Athos makes smart workout clothes embedded with inconspicuous technology that tracks muscle groups, heart, and breathing rates, he noted.
La entrada para el zoológico de Indianápolis le costaba antes a un adulto US$16,95. Ahora, puede valer entre US$8 y US$30.
El zoológico fija el precio de los boletos de la misma forma que las aerolíneas lo hacen con los pasajes: modificándolo a diario según las ventas anticipadas y la demanda esperada. La entidad rebaja los precios en los días de semana durante el frío de febrero y los sube después de que grupos escolares compran paquetes de entradas. Desde que implementó las tarifas dinámicas, los ingresos del zoológico han aumentado 12%.
Michael Crowther, director ejecutivo, bromea que en su lápida pondrán: “Llevó los precios dinámicos al Indy Zoo”.
Assuming the human eye could see them, what would the wireless signals that we are surrounded by in our homes, businesses and cities look like? Nothing like the streams of ASCII characters depicted in The Matrix, sadly. The reality is more like a sponge, says Cognitive Systems co-founder Taj Manku.
“If you actually see what RF looks like — like, for example, let’s say our eyes could see it it looks very odd. It’s almost like looking into a foam, like looking into a sponge. It’s hard to explain,” he says.
If you’ve ever tried to diagnose a car problem just by listening to it run, you’ve got a sense of what a startup called Augury is doing. Only instead of having human ears pay attention, it’s analyzing vibrations and ultrasonic sounds to figure out what’s ailing bulky machines.
The company, based in New York and Haifa, Israel, uses an iPhone app, gadget, and sensor to record motors and pumps, and then compares the data to existing machine recordings to determine whether or not the one being analyzed is working properly, or what the issue is if it’s not.
More than a month after Burnerlaunched its native integrations with Evernote, Slack, Dropbox, and SoundCloud, the provider of disposable phone numbers is opening itself up to developers. The company has released a way for third-parties to connect Burner with any number of applications or create new custom ones through the use of webhooks.
