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Insert Coin: BRCK wireless router packs a fallback 4G connection, internal battery

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In Insert Coin, we look at an exciting new tech project that requires funding before it can hit production. If you’d like to pitch a project, please send us a tip with “Insert Coin” as the subject line.

Staying connected to the internet can be a …


Twitter #Music lead Kevin Thau joins Biz Stone’s mysterious Jelly project

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If you’re not familiar with Kevin Thau, you ought to be: he worked on many of Twitter’s early mobile efforts, helped integrate it into major platforms and headed up the Twitter #Music app. That’s what makes his newly confirmed move to Twitter co-f…


Insert Coin: $250 Casetop turns your smartphone into a laptop (video)

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In Insert Coin, we look at an exciting new tech project that requires funding before it can hit production. If you’d like to pitch a project, please send us a tip with “Insert Coin” as the subject line.

We keep hearing about how handheld devices …


MiiPC offers backers double the memory for $15, throws in a free mic

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With a week left in an already successful Kickstarter campaign (approaching three times its initial $50,000 goal), the makers of the MiiPC are giving backers the chance to increase their system’s memory. Add $15 before the close of the project and…


Microsoft says Illumiroom isn’t yet ready for next Xbox, but will get public demo in July (video)

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Since we saw Illumiroom at CES in January, the research has come quite a ways. But while it’s still a spectacular technology display, don’t look for it to pop up in any Xbox announcements in the near future. In fact, Microsoft Research’s Hrvoje Be…


Tweets sent from ‘Twitter for Glass’ appear, suggest official app in testing

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Google has opened its Mirror API for devs while passing out Glass headsets to early adopters — including our own Tim Stevens — and now there’s evidence Twitter is already working up an official app. As TechCrunch points out, developer Jonathan G…


Eyes-on: MIT Media Lab’s Smarter Objects can map a user interface onto… anything (video)

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While patrolling the halls of the CHI 2013 Human Factors in Computing conference in Paris, we spied a research project from MIT’s Media Lab called “Smarter Objects” that turns Minority Report tech on its head. The researchers figured out a way to …


OpenMobile ACL for webOS resurrected on Kickstarter, hopes to bring Android apps to HP Touchpad

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The promise of OpenMobile’s Application Compatibility Layer is enticing: seamlessly run Android apps on another operating system as if it was meant to be there. Unfortunately for fans of Palm’s last hurrah, the project’s webOS port died with the H…


Living with Google Glass, Day One: the reveal

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In a loft atop Chelsea Market, Google is doing something special. Here, lucky Explorers will get their first taste of Project Glass. Yes, Google’s latest X project (that we know about, at least) has finally made its way to the East Coast en masse….


Google Drive now lets collaborators add friends, start chats with fewer clicks

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When you’re sharing a file in Google Drive, your time should be spent collaborating, not arranging conversations. Right? Google agrees strongly enough to have just finished tweaking Drive’s web interface for better teamwork. Users actively working…