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Hyundai Blue Link App: Start Up Your Hyundai with A Smart Watch

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Hyundai Smartwatch Integration

A few days from now at the Pepcom’s Digital Experience and at the Consumer Electronics Show, Hyundai will demonstrate their new Blue Link app for Android Wear devices. With it you will be able to remote start your Blue Link equipped Hyundai vehicle and access service information on it through your smartwatch or smartphone. You can start, lock or find your car with a few simple taps on your smartwatch, or by speaking to it. This is very handy when you need to locate your car in a huge parking lot.

To develop this technology Hyundai is working with Station Digital Media and in their demonstration Hyundai will use Samsung, Motorola, Sony and LG smartwatches.

Watch the video below to see how it works in action.

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Rock Climb Like Geckos with Stellio

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Stellio Rock Climb Gecko Style

Sometimes the craziest ideas come from the simplest places. Nature itself. The Stellio is the conception of designer Anupreeta Agate from Pune, India, as a part of her form course. It is a rock-climbing aid that simply sticks to vertical surfaces the same way the gecko feet do, with microscopic hair. To use it, you simply hook it to a carabiner and you’re set. The idea is that it would hold your body weight and you can stick and unstick it at will.

We really would love to see this come to fruition, although the idea itself seems still far-fetched from our current technological feats. However we will admit that she does have an eye for good design.

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Stellio Rock Climb Gecko Style

Stellio Rock Climb Gecko Style

Stellio Rock Climb Gecko Style

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Lian-Li O Series: Thin and Slek Wall-Mountable Chassis

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Lian Li O Series

Thin PC cases are cool, but it’s not so easy to keep them thin these days with fat graphics cards going around. Lian-Li takes the challenge with their all new O Series, a cool line of open-air, wall-mountable chassis. Graphics cards are installed parallel to the motherboard, thanks to its proprietary PCI riser card and extension, so the case can stay thin.

Aimed towards modders, the design boasts an oversized tempered glass window so you can clearly marvel at the belly of your creation. The harddrive cage is covered with black anodized aluminum shield to give it a sleek futuristic look, and to keep your drives cool. The higher models also support water cooling systems, and they are all designed to be mounted on the wall, should you find that pleasing.

Available in the US in February and the prices will go as below:

  • PC-O5: $289
  • PC-O5S: $319
  • PC-O6S: $379
  • PC-O7S: $419

Lian Li O Series

Lian Li O Series

Rambotech DS2 Bluetooth Stereo Headset

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Bluetooth Stereo Headset DS2

Sometimes we don’t need super high tech. Functional is good. Stylish even better. Rambotech knows this and comes up with the DS2 – simple, stylish bluetooth headphones with cool colors and a neck band to keep it in place.

It supports Bluetooth v4 with a 10 meter working range and 4.5 hour talk/music time, and it is universal meaning it can work with any device with the Bluetooth standards. They also sport Korean made microphones for noise reduction.

In the box you get the headphones, a carrying case, 3 pairs of earbuds and a charging cable.

Bluetooth Stereo Headset DS2

Bluetooth Stereo Headset DS2

Bluetooth Stereo Headset DS2

Bluetooth Stereo Headset DS2

SpotCam Gets Time Lapse and FREE 24-Hour Cloud Monitoring

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SpotCam

Other than cute betelnut girls, Taiwan is also known for it’s great electronics. SpotCam, founded in 2013, was Taiwan’s hottest startup in the CCTV industry. They are experts in Wi-Fi DVR and NVR surveillance and their cloud based system is one of the best in the world. With SpotCam you can stay connected to your home on any devices. You can receive live alerts and plug in to watch real-time video whenever you are online.

This week SpotCam gets an upgrade which allows it to take time lapse videos straight to the cloud. You also get 24-hour free monitoring and if you want more peeping they have options for 3, 7, and 30 days for $39, $59, and $199 per year respectively.

To setup the SpotCam is simple, just sign up on MySpotCam.com and you’re ready to go. You can grab one on Amazon for $149, but first check out the video below to see the time lapse feature in action.

SpotCam

SpotCam

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SpotCam Gets Time Lapse and FREE 24-Hour Cloud Monitoring

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SpotCam

Other than cute betelnut girls, Taiwan is also known for it’s great electronics. SpotCam, founded in 2013, was Taiwan’s hottest startup in the CCTV industry. They are experts in Wi-Fi DVR and NVR surveillance and their cloud based system is one of the best in the world. With SpotCam you can stay connected to your home on any devices. You can receive live alerts and plug in to watch real-time video whenever you are online.

This week SpotCam gets an upgrade which allows it to take time lapse videos straight to the cloud. You also get 24-hour free monitoring and if you want more peeping they have options for 3, 7, and 30 days for $39, $59, and $199 per year respectively.

To setup the SpotCam is simple, just sign up on MySpotCam.com and you’re ready to go. You can grab one on Amazon for $149, but first check out the video below to see the time lapse feature in action.

SpotCam

SpotCam

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Do You Have A Cicret?

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The Cicret Bracelet

It’s very unlikely that you do, but a French company is weighing the odds on the positive side. The Cicret Bracelet is a pico-projector-powered Android bracelet designed to replace your smartphone. Or smartwatch. Or both. It projects an interface on your arm, and via it’s army of promixity sensors it can detect your finger motions for touch actions, like click and drag. No more worries about cracking your screen when you do extreme sports, or getting your phone wet or dirty when you’re at the beach. Just shake the Cicret and there is your entire smartphone on your arm.

They need about 300k Euros to develop the Cicret app, and about 700k Euros to finish the prototype, so that’s quite a long way to go. But if you donate now, you may have a chance at grabbing their first units when they launch.

The Cicret Bracelet Sketch

The Cicret Bracelet on Skin

Flow to Extinguish an Entire Race of Mice into Oblivion

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Flow

There’s a subtle, unassuming, Indiegogo campaign for a new race of gesture-based input device called Flow. It is probably the most intuitive and precise controller of its type, and when it launches it may forever put an end to the use of the computer mouse.

Flow is a wireless device with a programmable shortcut to your favorite actions. It recognizes your hand gestures, sensitive touch and haptics and convert them into actionable commands. This is by far more natural also more interactive than using the good old keyboard and mouse. With Flow you will be using all your hand muscles therefore it is also healthier for you. No more joint pains and carpal tunnel syndrome.

The creators of Flow drove this innovation because as users we simply need a better tool to interface with our electronic devices. Flow can be freely programmed, and is now in development mode where they work with numerous mainstream app providers to make Flow work seamlessly with them. To name a few we have Photoshop, YouTube, SoundCloud, Vimeo, Pandora, among others and many more to come.

Inconspicuous, portable, beautiful. Just what we need now and for the future come.

Flow

Turn Your Smartphone into a Polaroid Camera with Prynt

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Prynt Polaroid Smartphone Case

The age of pasting memorable Polaroids on our bedroom walls have somewhat passed, replaced only with thousands and thousands of useless photos in our smartphone memory cards, some never to be seen again. A French startup is looking to change that, and rekindle the now ancient amusement habit. They have a prototype the call the Prynt, a smartphone case / backpack with a printer inside.

Prynt works in 3 very easy steps. Plug Prynt into your smartphone (or your smartphone into Prynt), snap photos, and print. No WiFi, no Blutooth, just plug and print.

They are launching their Kickstarter page early next year so keep an eye out and you may just grab their first units for $99.

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Just Plug to Unplug – Booting Unwanted Users from Wireless Networks

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Cyborg Unplug

Wireless networking is awesome, but it’s hard work to maintain and keep secure especially when you run a business like a cafe or you have many friends coming in and out of your house. One too many users slowing down or even snooping in on your wireless traffic isn’t cool, but now with Cyborg Unplug you can boot them.

The Unplug was created by Julian Oliver, the famous coder who wrote the Glasshole.sh script, which whole purpose was to kick Google Glass users from WiFi networks. Functioning with the same principle, simply plug the Unplug to kick out those unwanted trespassers.

Legal? It depends on which country you live in, but as long as you use it for personal use and not to hog network bandwidth in public areas, then you should be good.

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